Cohort dynamics give rise to alternative stable community states

American Naturalist

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 374-392

  Huss, Magnus ^a,c   de Roos, André M ^b   Van Leeuwen, Anieke ^b   Casini, Michele ^a   Gårdmark, Anna ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Competition; Herring; Mortality; Size structure; Sprat

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FISH; MATURATION; MORTALITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84881487575     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/671327     Document Type: Article

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