title: Ecological network indicators of ecosystem status and change in the Baltic Sea.
abstract: Several marine ecosystems under anthropogenic pressure have experienced shifts from one ecological state to another. In the central Baltic Sea, the regime shift of the 1980s has been associated with food-web reorganization and redirection of energy flow pathways. These long-term dynamics from 1974 to 2006 have been simulated here using a food-web model forced by climate and fishing. Ecological network analysis was performed to calculate indices of ecosystem change. The model replicated the regime shift. The analyses of indicators suggested that the system's resilience was higher prior to 1988 and lower thereafter. The ecosystem topology also changed from a web-like structure to a linearized food-web.
authors.affiliation: Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Maciej T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Tomczak
authors.forename: Johanna J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Heymans
authors.forename: Johanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yletyinen
authors.forename: Susa
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Niiranen
authors.forename: Saskia A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.forename: Thorsten
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Blenckner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018533:Biomass; D017753:Ecosystem; D020387:Food Chain; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009792:Oceans and Seas