From an Antagonistic to a Synergistic Predator Prey Perspective
Bifurcations in Marine Ecosystem

From an Antagonistic to a Synergistic Predator Prey Perspective: Bifurcations in Marine Ecosystems presents a novel perspective of predator-prey interaction in which both predator and prey enhance abundance by their co-existence.

Tore Johannessen (Author)

9780124170162

Paperback, published 2 May 2014

228 pages, Illustrated
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.6 cm, 0.37 kg

Approx.212 pages

1. Introduction
2. Repeated incidents of abrupt and persistent recruitment failures in gadoids in relation to increasing eutrophication 1919-2001
3. Causes of variation in abundance, growth and mortality in 0-group gadoids after settlement and a theory underlying recruitment variability in Atlantic cod
4. Growth and mortality in settled Atlantic cod in relation to diet – evidence for a recruitment mechanism
5. Bifurcations in marine ecosystems: concurrent recruitment collapses in gadoid fishes and changes in the plankton community
6. Predator-prey synergism in plankton
7. Ecological implications of predator-prey synergism in marine ecosystems
8. Variability enhancing and variability dampening mechanisms in marine ecosystems

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], Marine biology [PSPM], Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF]