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CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES
卷 65, 期 9, 页码 1965-1982出版社
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1139/F08-104
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- Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School
We apply graph theory and network analysis to the food web of the Gulf of Alaska marine ecosystem to classify its structural properties, which suggest how the ecosystem as a whole may respond to heavy fishing pressure on its components. Three conceptual models of network structure, random, small-world, and scale-free, each have different implications for system behavior and tolerance to perturbations. We constructed two food web network models using detailed quantitative information on the stomach contents of 57 predator (fish) species collected during trawl surveys of the Gulf of Alaska between 1981 and 2002. The resulting food webs displayed both small-world and scale-free network properties, suggesting that impacts on one species might spread to many through short interaction chains and that while most food web connections are not critical, a small set of fished species support critical structural connections. Ecosystem-based fish-cry management should therefore first focus on protecting the highly connected species in the network to avoid structural impacts of fishing on the food web.
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