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Preface Aquatic Ecology 31: 347, 1998. Bivalve suspension feeders play a key role in many estuarine and coastal ecosystems, owing to their great abun- dance and their large filtration capacity. Their commercial exploitation has led to their increasing abundance. This has raised questions about the carrying capacity of ecosystems for aquaculture. The trophic capacity or carry- ing capacity depends on a variety of biotic and abiotic factors and on feedback mechanisms between ecosystem processes and the bivalve populations. The increasing demand for quantitative estimations of the carrying capacity of a given ecosystem for aquaculture and the complexity of ecosystem processes involved, calls for the application of ecosystem models. This Special Issue of Aquatic Ecology contains some of the papers selected from those presented at a workshop, supported by ICES and EU, held in Plymouth during October 1996. The workshop was a follow-up study, based on the results of an EU sponsored (FAR) project on the ‘trophic capacity of estuarine ecosystems (TROPHEE)’, an EU-AIR concerted action on the same topic and on the outcomes of a NATO sponsored symposium on ‘bivalve filter feeders in ecosystem processes’, held in 1992 in the Netherlands. One of the objectives of the workshop was to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Ecology Springer Journals

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Aquatic Ecology 31: 347, 1998. Bivalve suspension feeders play a key role in many estuarine and coastal ecosystems, owing to their great abun- dance and their large filtration capacity. Their commercial exploitation has led to their increasing abundance. This has raised questions about the carrying capacity of ecosystems for aquaculture. The trophic capacity or carry- ing capacity depends on a variety of biotic and abiotic factors and on feedback mechanisms between ecosystem processes...
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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1997 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Life Sciences; Freshwater & Marine Ecology; Ecosystems
ISSN
1386-2588
eISSN
1573-5125
DOI
10.1023/A:1017187906769
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Abstract

Aquatic Ecology 31: 347, 1998. Bivalve suspension feeders play a key role in many estuarine and coastal ecosystems, owing to their great abun- dance and their large filtration capacity. Their commercial exploitation has led to their increasing abundance. This has raised questions about the carrying capacity of ecosystems for aquaculture. The trophic capacity or carry- ing capacity depends on a variety of biotic and abiotic factors and on feedback mechanisms between ecosystem processes and the bivalve populations. The increasing demand for quantitative estimations of the carrying capacity of a given ecosystem for aquaculture and the complexity of ecosystem processes involved, calls for the application of ecosystem models. This Special Issue of Aquatic Ecology contains some of the papers selected from those presented at a workshop, supported by ICES and EU, held in Plymouth during October 1996. The workshop was a follow-up study, based on the results of an EU sponsored (FAR) project on the ‘trophic capacity of estuarine ecosystems (TROPHEE)’, an EU-AIR concerted action on the same topic and on the outcomes of a NATO sponsored symposium on ‘bivalve filter feeders in ecosystem processes’, held in 1992 in the Netherlands. One of the objectives of the workshop was to

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Published: Sep 19, 2004

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