Publication Date:
2005-06-11
Description:
Removal of top predators from ecosystems can result in cascading effects through the trophic levels below, completely restructuring the food web. Cascades have been observed in small-scale or simple food webs, but not in large, complex, open-ocean ecosystems. Using data spanning many decades from a once cod-dominated northwest Atlantic ecosystem, we demonstrate a trophic cascade in a large marine ecosystem. Several cod stocks in other geographic areas have also collapsed without recovery, suggesting the existence of trophic cascades in these systems.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Frank, Kenneth T -- Petrie, Brian -- Choi, Jae S -- Leggett, William C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Jun 10;308(5728):1621-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Ocean Sciences Division, Post Office Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4A2, Canada. frankk@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15947186" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Atlantic Ocean
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Biodiversity
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Biomass
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*Ecosystem
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Fisheries
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*Fishes
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*Food Chain
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Gadus morhua
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*Invertebrates
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*Phytoplankton
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Population Density
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Population Dynamics
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Predatory Behavior
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Principal Component Analysis
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Seals, Earless
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*Seawater
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Time Factors
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*Zooplankton
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
