The importance of within-system spatial variation in drivers of Marine Ecosystem regime shifts

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1659, 2015, Pages 1-8

  Fisher, J A ^a   Casini, M ^b   Frank, K T ^c   Mollmann C ^d   Leggett, W C ^e   Daskalov, G ^f  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Context Dependence; Downscaling; Predator Prey interaction; Resilience; Spatial heterogeneity; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE EFFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84911938365     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0271     Document Type: Article

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