Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture systems: energy transfers and food web organization in coastal earthen ponds

• Published in: Aquaculture Environment Interactions
• Main Authors: Gamito, Sofia, Quental-Ferreira, H, Parejo, A, Aubin, J, Christensen, V, Cunha, ME
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Inter Research 2020
• Subjects: Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture systems; Sustainable aquaculture; IMTA; Ecopath models; Earthen pond ecosystems; Ecosystem energy transfer; Imta; Crassostrea gigas
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/14919; https://doi.org/10.3354/aei00375

Three Ecopath models were built to reproduce 3 experimental treatments carried out in earthen ponds located in Olhao, southern Portugal, to understand the energy transferred and the ecosystem state in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). These earthen ponds behave as simplified ecosystems or...