Consumer fronts, global change, and runaway collapse in ecosystems

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 503-538

  Silliman, Brian R ^a   McCoy, Michael W ^b   Angelini, Christine ^c   Holt, Robert D ^c   Griffin, John N ^d   Van De Koppel, Johan ^e,f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Behavior; Catastrophic collapse; Climate change; Density dependent; Ecosystem resilience; Predation; Resource dependent movement; Spatial processes; Thresholds; Top down control; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLLAPSE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EXPLOITATION; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; MOVEMENT; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STABILIZATION; THRESHOLD; TOP-DOWN CONTROL; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 84888599108     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135753     Document Type: Review

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