Ecosystem limits to food web fluxes and fisheries yields in the North Sea simulated with an end-to-end food web model

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 102, Issue , 2012, Pages 42-66

  Heath, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RATES; AUTOMATIC PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; BIOMASS YIELD; COMMERCIAL FISH; DEMERSAL FISH; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; FISH STOCK; FISHERIES MANAGEMENT; FOOD WEB INTERACTIONS; FOOD WEB MODEL; FOOD WEBS; HARVESTING RATE; HARVESTING STRATEGY; INORGANIC NUTRIENTS; MANAGEMENT GOALS; NORTH SEA; PARAMETER SET; PREDATION RATES; SUSTAINABLE YIELDS; TOPDOWN;

FISH; FISHERIES; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; DEMERSAL FISHERY; EXPLOITATION; FOOD WEB; HARVESTING; PELAGIC FISHERY; PHYTOPLANKTON; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84864106323     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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