A dynamic model describing ecosystem-level changes in the strait of georgia from 1960 to 2010

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 28-40

  Preikshot, Dave ^a   Beamish, Richard J ^a   Neville, Chrys M ^a  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATIONS; BIRD POPULATIONS; ECOSYSTEM CHANGES; ECOSYSTEM MODEL; HISTORIC CHANGES; MARINE MAMMALS; PREDATOR-PREY DYNAMICS; STRAIT OF GEORGIA;

MAMMALS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; BIRD; CATCH COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

STRAIT OF GEORGIA;

AVES; CLUPEA PALLASI; MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; OPHIODON ELONGATUS; SQUALIDAE; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84880925274     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.05.020     Document Type: Article

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