Exploring the structural and functional properties of the Lake Victoria food web, and the role of fisheries, using a mass balance model
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2016.10.002
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Balanced fishing; Ecopath with Ecosim; Lake Victoria; Mass balance; Resilience;All these keywords.
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