Ecosystem effects of bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus thynnus aquaculture in the NW Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

Appendix 1. Description of the Ecopath with Ecosim modeling approach and application to the Catalan Sea.

European seaweeds under pressure: Consequences for communities and ecosystem functioning

“…Most nutrients enter through streams or direct runoff although the role of nutrient enriched groundwater seems to increase as well (Stigter et al, 2013;Tournoud et al, 2006). The importance of aquaculture as a nutrient source in Europe is generally modest at the moment, but can be expected to increase considering the growth prospectives of the industry (Aubin et al, 2009;Forrestal et al, 2012).…”

Ecosystem structure and fishing impacts in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea using a food web model within a comparative approach

“…These models have been used for a diversity of applications such as analysing fishing impacts (Coll et al, 2006a;Coll et al, 2007), comparing ecosystem structure and functioning traits (Hattab et al, 2013;Tsagarakis et al, 2010), exploring management options (Fouzai et al, 2012), assessing the impact of aquaculture (Forestal et al, 2012), evaluating the effects of the environment Piroddi et al, 2010) and exploring the effects of invasive species in the food web (Daskalov, 2002).…”

Ecosystem functioning of two marine food webs in the North‐Western Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea)

“…(e.g., Mutshinda, Finkel, Widdicombe, & Irwin, 2016) and, by describing complex ecological structures, can help disentangle the effects of functional diversity on ecosystem processes (e.g., Holzwarth, Rüger, & Wirth, 2015). Modeling marine food webs has shown great potential for investigating the changes due to environmental variability and climate change (Heymans, Coll, Libralato, Morissette, & Christensen, 2014;Libralato, Caccin, & Pranovi, 2015), exploitation of fishing resources and aquaculture management (Forestal, Coll, Christensen, & Die, 2012;Libralato et al, 2010), as well as pollution, nutrient enrichment and the impact of alien species (Daskalov, 2002;Fulton, 2010;Pranovi et al, 2003).…”