Open‐ocean fisheries expanded rapidly from the 1960s through the 1980s, when global fish
catches peaked, plateaued and possibly began to decline. While catches remain at best …

Trophic cascades—the top-down regulation of ecosystems by predators—are an essential
aspect of ecosystem function and well-being. Trophic cascades are often drastically …

We developed a quantitative method, analogous to those used in statistical mechanics, to
predict how biodiversity will vary across environments, which plant species from a species …

Ecosystem modeling is a popular technique to incorporate the direct and indirect
interactions of all ecosystem components within a simulation. However, these models are …

Off-shelf waters cover 66% of the planet. Growing concerns about the state of natural
resources in these waters, and of future threats have led to a growing movement to improve …

Fisheries have removed at least 50 million tons of tuna and other top-level predators from
the Pacific Ocean pelagic ecosystem since 1950, leading to concerns about a catastrophic …

As lakeshores are developed, property owners often thin the riparian forest and remove
older logs or fallen limbs from the adjacent littoral zone. This practice alters fish habitat and …

The development of an ecosystem approach is essential to improve understanding of the
nature and dynamics of exploited marine ecosystems and the complexity of species …

Elasmobranch mortality in pelagic longline fisheries poses a risk to some populations, alters
the distribution of abundance between sympatric competitors, changing ecosystem structure …

Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) are highly migratory predators whose abundance,
distribution, and somatic condition have changed over the past decades. Prey community …