This paper reviews our understanding of how the effects of the El Nino–southern oscillation
(ENSO) might be transmitted from the tropical Pacific Ocean to the Antarctic, and examines …

Recent years have seen a plethora of studies reporting that 'regime shifts' have occurred in
the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans during the last century. In many cases, the criteria …

Famed in story as" the great leviathans," sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes.
Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males …

Large‐scale shifts occurred in climatic and oceanic conditions in 1925, 1947, 1977, 1989
and possibly 1998. These shifts affected the mix and abundance of suites of coexisting …

Abstract The Peru‐Humboldt Current system (HCS) supports the world's largest pelagic
fisheries. Among the world's eastern boundary current systems, it is the most exposed to …

The many recent publications on regimes and shifts highlight the importance of decadal
variability in understanding climate and ecosystems and their connectivity. This paper …

The four general components of an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) are reviewed. In
taking account of environment forcing in stock dynamics, arguments are presented that …

Several marine ecosystems under anthropogenic pressure have experienced shifts from
one ecological state to another. In the central Baltic Sea, the regime shift of the 1980s has …

Understanding the reciprocal interactions between humans and marine ecosystems has
several fundamental difficulties, in particular compatible methodologies and different …

Habitat science can provide the unifying concepts to bring together ecological studies of
physiological tolerances, predator avoidance, foraging and feeding, reproduction and life …