Complexity and Change in a Simple Food Web : Studies in the Baltic Sea (FAO Area 27.IIId)
An influence at one trophic level can result in dynamic impacts also on other components of a food web. These dynamics are known as trophic cascades, and can be both top-down and bottom-up. After a near-collapse of the Baltic cod Gadus morhua stock in the 1980s, its main prey sprat Sprattus sprattus...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för systemekologi
2006
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-953 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-7155-225-1 |