Biological impacts of marine heatwaves

KE Smith, MT Burrows, AJ Hobday… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Climatic extremes are becoming increasingly common against a background trend of global
warming. In the oceans, marine heatwaves (MHWs)—discrete periods of anomalously warm …

Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology

GC Hays, LC Ferreira, AMM Sequeira… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
It is a golden age for animal movement studies and so an opportune time to assess priorities
for future work. We assembled 40 experts to identify key questions in this field, focussing on …

Applying stable isotopes to examine food‐web structure: an overview of analytical tools

CA Layman, MS Araujo, R Boucek… - Biological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis has emerged as one of the primary means for examining the
structure and dynamics of food webs, and numerous analytical approaches are now …

The ecological causes of individual specialisation

MS Araújo, DI Bolnick, CA Layman - Ecology letters, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 948–958 Abstract Many generalist populations are composed of
specialised individuals, whose niches are small subsets of the population niche. This …

Defining the 'generalist specialist' niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens

P Roberts, BA Stewart - Nature Human Behaviour, 2018 - nature.com
Definitions of our species as unique within the hominin clade have tended to focus on
differences in capacities for symbolism, language, social networking, technological …

Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators

MR Heupel, DM Knip, CA Simpfendorfer… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2014 - int-res.com
The decline of predators in a variety of ecosystems has transformed community structure
through mesopredator release and trophic cascades. Elasmobranch fishes, one of the …

A global review of green turtle diet: sea surface temperature as a potential driver of omnivory levels

N Esteban, JA Mortimer, HJ Stokes, JO Laloë… - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
To better understand dietary requirements, trophic shifts, and trophic interactions of the
threatened green turtle (Chelonia mydas), we conducted a comprehensive global review …

A systematic review of how multiple stressors from an extreme event drove ecosystem-wide loss of resilience in an iconic seagrass community

GA Kendrick, RJ Nowicki, YS Olsen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
A central question in contemporary ecology is how climate change will alter ecosystem
structure and function across scales of space and time. Climate change has been shown to …

Food consumption and feeding habits

BM Wetherbee, E Cortés… - Biology of sharks and their …, 2004 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Among the most common statements made in studies of elasmobranch ecology is
something to the effect that “sharks play an important role in marine ecosystems.” Although …

Stable isotopes and elasmobranchs: tissue types, methods, applications and assumptions

NE Hussey, MA MacNeil, JA Olin… - Journal of Fish …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Stable‐isotope analysis (SIA) can act as a powerful ecological tracer with which to examine
diet, trophic position and movement, as well as more complex questions pertaining to …