PERSPECTIVE Ecological hypotheses for a historical reconstruction of upper trophic level biomass in

• Main Authors: The Baltic Sea, Brian R. Mackenzie, Jürgen Alheit, Daniel J. Conley, Poul Holm, Christian Kinze
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Øresund; Gadus morhua; Phoca hispida; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.491.1591; http://www.dfu.dtu.dk/upload/DFU/CV-publikationer/HOEK/ecological_hypotheses.pdf

Abstract: Fish and marine mammal populations in the Baltic Sea and Skagerrak have undergone major fluctuations over the past five centuries. We summarize how these fluctuations may have depended on various forms of predation (e.g., cannibalism, fishing, hunting) and environmental processes. The best...