Impacts of depleting forage species in the California Current

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 380-393

  Kaplan, Isaac C ^a   Brown, Christopher J ^a,b   Fulton, Elizabeth A ^b   Gray, Iris A ^a   Field, John C ^c   Smith, Anthony D M ^b  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ecosystem modelling; euphausiids; food web; forage fish; lower trophic level species; sardine

Indexed keywords

FISH; HARVESTING; MAMMALS;

ECOSYSTEM MODELLING; EUPHAUSIIDS; FOOD WEBS; FORAGE FISH; SARDINE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; CLUPEOID; CRUSTACEAN; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD WEB; FORAGE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MAXIMUM SUSTAINABLE YIELD; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR; SEAFOOD; TRADE-OFF; TROPHIC LEVEL; ABUNDANCE; FISH; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EUPHAUSIIDAE;

EID: 84897011594     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892913000052     Document Type: Article

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