Global patterns in ecological indicators of marine food webs: a modelling approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ecological attributes estimated from food web models have the potential to be indicators of good environmental status given their capabilities to describe redundancy, food web changes, and sensitivity to fishing. They can be used as a baseline to show how they might be modified in the future with human impacts such as climate change, acidification, eutrophication, or overfishing.

Methodology

In this study ecological network analysis indicators of 105 marine food web models were tested for variation with traits such as ecosystem type, latitude, ocean basin, depth, size, time period, and exploitation state, whilst also considering structural properties of the models such as number of linkages, number of living functional groups or total number of functional groups a

SUBMITTER: Heymans JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3998982 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature