Towards a more balanced view of marine ecosystems

• Published in: Fisheries Oceanography
• Main Author: Greene, Charles H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Greene; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fog.12006; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Ffog.12006; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/fog.12006

Abstract Frank et al . ( Nature , 477 , 2011, 86) hypothesize that the slow recovery of the Scotian Shelf ecosystem to its structure prior to the early 1990s is a result of the oscillatory, runaway consumption dynamics of the forage fish complex. Their hypothesis is based on the underlying assumptio...