Temporal dynamics of top predators interactions in the Barents Sea.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Joël M Durant, Mette Skern-Mauritzen, Yuri V Krasnov, Natalia G Nikolaeva, Ulf Lindstrøm, Andrey Dolgov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Arctic; Barents Sea; Gam; Arctic cod; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Black-legged Kittiwake; common guillemot; Gadus morhua; minke whale; Northeast Arctic cod; rissa tridactyla; Uria aalge; uria
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110933; https://doaj.org/article/974c0a3169b7484aa55bc4682a96e592

The Barents Sea system is often depicted as a simple food web in terms of number of dominant feeding links. The most conspicuous feeding link is between the Northeast Arctic cod Gadus morhua, the world's largest cod stock which is presently at a historical high level, and capelin Mallotus villo...