Search for dissertations about: "Robert W Furness"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Robert W Furness.

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

   Author : Henrik Österblom; Sture Hansson; Robert W Furness; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; 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;

   Abstract : 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 increased dramatically. READ MORE