Abstract:Declines of large predatory fish due to overexploitation are restructuring food webs 1 across the globe. It is now becoming evident that restoring these altered food webs requires 2 addressing not only ecological processes, but evolutionary ones as well, because human-induced 3 rapid evolution may in turn affect ecological dynamics. In the central Baltic Sea, abundances of 4 the mesopredatory fish, the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus), have increased 5 dramatically during the past decades. Tim… Show more
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