An empirical model of the Baltic Sea reveals the importance of social dynamics for ecological regime shifts

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 11120-11125

  Lade, Steven J ^a   Niiranen, Susa ^a   Hentati Sundberg, Jonas ^a   Blenckner, Thorsten ^a   Boonstra, Wiebren J ^a   Orach, Kirill ^a   Quaas, Martin F ^b   Österblom, Henrik ^a   Schlüter, Maja ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feedback analysis; Fisheries; Generalized modeling; Human decision making; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FISHERY; HISTORICAL PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIOLOGY; SYSTEMS THEORY; ZOOPLANKTON; BALTIC STATES; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SEA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BALTIC STATES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FISHERIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84940975506     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1504954112     Document Type: Article

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