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SUBMITTER: Lynam CP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5338359 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lynam Christopher Philip CP Llope Marcos M Möllmann Christian C Helaouët Pierre P Bayliss-Brown Georgia Anne GA Stenseth Nils C NC
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20170206 8
Climate change and resource exploitation have been shown to modify the importance of bottom-up and top-down forces in ecosystems. However, the resulting pattern of trophic control in complex food webs is an emergent property of the system and thus unintuitive. We develop a statistical nondeterministic model, capable of modeling complex patterns of trophic control for the heavily impacted North Sea ecosystem. The model is driven solely by fishing mortality and climatic variables and based on time ...[more]