ABSTRACT: Few marine ecologists have addressed important questions about the relative productivity and carrying capacity of different ecosystems required to support fish populations. Whereas many ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using a top-down modeling approach, published mass-balance models of trophic interactions and state variables in the western central Pacific ...

For decades, wildlife managers have clung to the notion of carrying capacity as if it were a law of nature — a neat number representing how many elephants a reserve can sustain. It is time we call ...