Overview of integrative assessment of marine systems: the ecosystem approach in practice

A Borja, M Elliott, JH Andersen, T Berg… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Traditional and emerging human activities are increasingly putting pressures on marine
ecosystems and impacting their ability to sustain ecological and human communities. To …

Do marine phytoplankton follow Bergmann's rule sensu lato?

U Sommer, KH Peter, S Genitsaris… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Global warming has revitalized interest in the relationship between body size and
temperature, proposed by B ergmann's rule 150 years ago, one of the oldest manifestations …

Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish

RF Heneghan, JD Everett, JL Blanchard… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Zooplankton are the primary energy pathway from phytoplankton to fish. Yet, there is limited
understanding about how climate change will modify zooplankton communities and the …

Can marine fisheries and aquaculture meet fish demand from a growing human population in a changing climate?

G Merino, M Barange, JL Blanchard, J Harle… - Global Environmental …, 2012 - Elsevier
Expansion in the world's human population and economic development will increase future
demand for fish products. As global fisheries yield is constrained by ecosystems productivity …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling diverse responses to climate change among global marine ecosystem models

RF Heneghan, E Galbraith, JL Blanchard… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is warming the ocean and impacting lower trophic level (LTL) organisms.
Marine ecosystem models can provide estimates of how these changes will propagate to …

Does warming enhance the effect of microzooplankton grazing on marine phytoplankton in the ocean?

B Chen, MR Landry, B Huang… - Limnology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluated a hypothesis derived from the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) that the ratio
of microzooplankton herbivory (m) to phytoplankton growth (μ) will arise in a warming ocean …

Trait biogeography of marine copepods–an analysis across scales

P Brun, MR Payne, T Kiørboe - Ecology Letters, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits, rather than taxonomic identity, determine the fitness of individuals in their
environment: traits of marine organisms are therefore expected to vary across the global …

A functional size-spectrum model of the global marine ecosystem that resolves zooplankton composition

RF Heneghan, JD Everett, P Sykes, SD Batten… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite their critical role as the main energy pathway between phytoplankton and fish, the
functional complexity of zooplankton is typically poorly resolved in marine ecosystem …

Predicting consumer biomass, size-structure, production, catch potential, responses to fishing and associated uncertainties in the world's marine ecosystems

S Jennings, K Collingridge - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Existing estimates of fish and consumer biomass in the world's oceans are disparate. This
creates uncertainty about the roles of fish and other consumers in biogeochemical cycles …

Modelling the effects of climate change on the distribution and production of marine fishes: accounting for trophic interactions in a dynamic bioclimate envelope model

JA Fernandes, WWL Cheung, S Jennings… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change has already altered the distribution of marine fishes. Future predictions of
fish distributions and catches based on bioclimate envelope models are available, but to …