From bacteria to whales: using functional size spectra to model marine ecosystems

JL Blanchard, RF Heneghan, JD Everett… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017 - cell.com
Size-based ecosystem modeling is emerging as a powerful way to assess ecosystem-level
impacts of human-and environment-driven changes from individual-level processes. These …

The flexible application of carrying capacity in ecology

EJ Chapman, CJ Byron - Global ecology and conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
Carrying capacity encompasses a broad collection of approaches used to better understand
biotic interactions in ecosystems and is often applied with no explicit regard to its historical …

Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change

HK Lotze, DP Tittensor… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
While the physical dimensions of climate change are now routinely assessed through
multimodel intercomparisons, projected impacts on the global ocean ecosystem generally …

Potential consequences of climate change for primary production and fish production in large marine ecosystems

JL Blanchard, S Jennings… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Existing methods to predict the effects of climate change on the biomass and production of
marine communities are predicated on modelling the interactions and dynamics of individual …

A protocol for the intercomparison of marine fishery and ecosystem models: Fish-MIP v1. 0

DP Tittensor, TD Eddy, HK Lotze… - Geoscientific Model …, 2018 - gmd.copernicus.org
Model intercomparison studies in the climate and Earth sciences communities have been
crucial to building credibility and coherence for future projections. They have quantified …

[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 …

End-to-end models for the analysis of marine ecosystems: challenges, issues, and next steps

KA Rose, JI Allen, Y Artioli, M Barange… - Marine and Coastal …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
There is growing interest in models of marine ecosystems that deal with the effects of climate
change through the higher trophic levels. Such end-to-end models combine …

Spatial and body‐size dependent response of marine pelagic communities to projected global climate change

S Lefort, O Aumont, L Bopp, T Arsouze… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature, oxygen, and food availability directly affect marine life. Climate models project
a global warming of the ocean's surface (~+ 3° C), a de‐oxygenation of the ocean's interior …

Towards end-to-end models for investigating the effects of climate and fishing in marine ecosystems

M Travers, YJ Shin, S Jennings, P Cury - Progress in oceanography, 2007 - Elsevier
End-to-end models that represent ecosystem components from primary producers to top
predators, linked through trophic interactions and affected by the abiotic environment, are …

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 …