From an antagonistic to a synergistic predator prey perspective :
[Book]
bifurcations in marine ecosystems /
Tore Johannessen, Institute of Marine Research, Norway; University of Cape Town, South Africa ; contributors, Ingrid Berthinussen, Anders Fernö, Tore Johannessen, Jens-Otto Krakstad
xv, 212 pages :
illustrations (some color), maps ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Repeated incidents of abrupt and persistent recruitment failures in gadoids in relation to increasing eutrophication, 1919-2001 -- Causes of variation in abundance, growth, and mortality in 0-group gadoids after settlement and a hypothesis underlying recruitment variability in Atlantic cod -- Growth and mortality in settled Atlantic cod in relation to diet : evidence for a recruitment mechanism / Tore Johannessen, Ingrid Berthinussen, Jens-Otto Krakstad and Anders Fernö -- Bifurcations in marine ecosystems : concurrent recruitment collapses in gadoid fishes and changes in the plankton community -- Predator-prey synergism in plankton -- Ecological implications of predator-prey synergism in marine ecosystems -- Variability enhancing and variability dampening mechanisms in marine ecosystems