Regime shifts in marine communities: A complex systems perspective on food web dynamics

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1825, 2016, Pages

  Yletyinen, Johanna ^a   Bodin, Örjan ^a   Weigel, Benjamin ^b   Nordström, Marie C ^b   Bonsdorff, Erik ^b   Blenckner, Thorsten ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Complex adaptive systems; Exponential random graph model; Food web; Motifs; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; COMPLEXITY; EMERGENCE; FOOD WEB; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA;

AQUATIC SPECIES; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOTA; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84958787150     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2569     Document Type: Article

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