Regime shifts in exploited marine food webs: Detecting mechanisms underlying alternative stable states using sizestructured community dynamics theory

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1659, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Gårdmark, Anna ^a   Casini, Michele ^a   Huss, Magnus ^a   Van Leeuwen, Anieke ^b   Hjelm, Joakim ^a   Persson, Lennart ^c   de Roos, André M ^d  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alternative stable states; Marine management; Population recovery; Size structured community dynamics theory; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

EXPLOITATION; FISH; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PISCIVORE; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

EID: 84911869546     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0262     Document Type: Article

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