Impact of biodiversity loss on production in complex marine food webs mitigated by prey-release

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fung, Tak ^a   Farnsworth, Keith D ^b   Reid, David G ^c   Rossberg, Axel G ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MARINE INSTITUTE   (Ireland)

^d CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BODY MASS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MULTISPECIES FISHERY; PREDATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BODY MASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; EMPIRICISM; FOOD WEB; HARVESTING; NONHUMAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPHIC LEVEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FISH; FOOD CHAIN; SEA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84925353323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7657     Document Type: Article

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