Combined effects of global climate change and regional ecosystem drivers on an exploited marine food web

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3327-3342

  Niiranen, Susa ^a   Yletyinen, Johanna ^a,b   Tomczak, Maciej T ^a   Blenckner, Thorsten ^a   Hjerne, Olle ^a   Mackenzie, Brian R ^c   Müller Karulis, Bärbel ^a   Neumann, Thomas ^d   Meier, H E Markus ^a,e  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Climate change; Ecopath with Ecosim; Eutrophication; Fishing; Food web; Nutrient loads

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION; FISHING COMMUNITY; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPEPOD; ECOPATH WITH ECOSIM; EUTROPHICATION; FISH; FISHING; FOOD CHAIN; FOOD WEB; NUTRIENT LOADS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL; ZOOPLANKTON;

BALTIC SEA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOPATH WITH ECOSIM; EUTROPHICATION; FISHING; FOOD WEB; NUTRIENT LOADS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COPEPODA; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 84885419745     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12309     Document Type: Article

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