Regional peculiarities of community-wide trophic cascades in strongly degraded Black Sea food web
Oguz, T.; Salihoglu, B.; Moncheva, S.; Abaza, V. (2012). Regional peculiarities of community-wide trophic cascades in strongly degraded Black Sea food web. J. Plankton Res. 34(4): 338-343. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/plankt/fbs002
In: Journal of Plankton Research. Oxford University Press: New York,. ISSN 0142-7873; e-ISSN 1464-3774, more
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| Author keywords |
Black Sea; benthic and pelagic food webs; fishery collapse; invasive species; trophic cascade |
| Abstract |
The community-wide trophic cascade due to collapsed fish stocks and population outburst of invasive predators after the early 1990s resulted in different pelagic and benthic food web structures in the Black Sea. The northeastern region assumed their most simplified forms characterized by increasing mesozooplankton and polychaete biomass. The ecological degradation is more severe in the northwestern part, whereas the southern basin maintains an anchovy fishery under relatively weak gelatinous predation. |
| Dataset |
- Snejana Moncheva; Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IO-BAS); (2019): Phytoplankton abundance and biomass data from 2007 to 2016 in the Bulgarian Black Sea, more
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