Complexity and Change in a Simple Food Web : Studies in the Baltic Sea (FAO Area 27.IIId)

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Österblom, Henrik
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för systemekologi 2006
Subjects:
Avian cholera
Bottom-up
Bycatch
Clupea harengus
Ecosystem
Food web
Gadus morhua
Halichoerus grypus
Regime shift
Sprattus sprattus
Top-down
Trophic cascade
Uria aalge
Marine ecology
Marin ekologi
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