The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean

K Grorud-Colvert, J Sullivan-Stack, C Roberts… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are places in the ocean that receive
protection to safeguard biodiversity from abatable threats. Confusion exists about the …

Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering

C Tannenbaum, RP Ellis, F Eyssel, J Zou… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible
science. Incorporating sex and gender analysis into experimental design has enabled …

Metabolic scaling is the product of life-history optimization

CR White, LA Alton, CL Bywater, EJ Lombardi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Organisms use energy to grow and reproduce, so the processes of energy metabolism and
biological production should be tightly bound. On the basis of this tenet, we developed and …

Thermal bottlenecks in the life cycle define climate vulnerability of fish

FT Dahlke, S Wohlrab, M Butzin, HO Pörtner - Science, 2020 - science.org
Species' vulnerability to climate change depends on the most temperature-sensitive life
stages, but for major animal groups such as fish, life cycle bottlenecks are often not clearly …

Shrinking body sizes in response to warming: explanations for the temperature–size rule with special emphasis on the role of oxygen

WCEP Verberk, D Atkinson, KN Hoefnagel… - Biological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Body size is central to ecology at levels ranging from organismal fecundity to the functioning
of communities and ecosystems. Understanding temperature‐induced variations in body …

Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production

CM Free, JT Thorson, ML Pinsky, KL Oken… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Climate change is altering habitats for marine fishes and invertebrates, but the net effect of
these changes on potential food production is unknown. We used temperature-dependent …

Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes

SRR Kolora, GL Owens, JM Vazquez, A Stubbs… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Pacific Ocean rockfishes (genus Sebastes) exhibit extreme variation in life span, with some
species being among the most long-lived extant vertebrates. We de novo assembled the …

Animal life history is shaped by the pace of life and the distribution of age-specific mortality and reproduction

K Healy, THG Ezard, OR Jones… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Animals exhibit an extraordinary diversity of life history strategies. These realized
combinations of survival, development and reproduction are predicted to be constrained by …

The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning

BJ Enquist, AJ Abraham, MBJ Harfoot, Y Malhi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A prominent signal of the Anthropocene is the extinction and population reduction of the
megabiota—the largest animals and plants on the planet. However, we lack a predictive …

Smooth and spiky: the importance of variability in marine climate change ecology

JD Witman, AJ Pershing, JF Bruno - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Greenhouse gas emissions are warming the ocean with profound consequences at all
levels of organization, from organismal rates to ecosystem processes. The proximate driver …