Is fisheries production within Large Marine Ecosystems determined by bottom-up or top-down forcing?

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 623-632

  Mcowen, Chris J ^a,b   Cheung, William W L ^c   Rykaczewski, Ryan R ^d   Watson, Reg A ^e   Wood, Louisa J ^a  

^a UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bottom up; Climate forcing; Fisheries production; Fishing effort; Large Marine Ecosystem; Top down

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; CLIMATE FORCING; COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FISHERY PRODUCTION; FISHING EFFORT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OVERFISHING; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

EID: 84944515582     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12082     Document Type: Article

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