Does death drive the scaling of life?

DS Glazier - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The magnitude of many kinds of biological structures and processes scale with organismal
size, often in regular ways that can be described by power functions. Traditionally, many of …

Identifying direct and indirect associations among traits by merging phylogenetic comparative methods and structural equation models

JT Thorson, AA Maureaud, R Frelat… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Traits underlie organismal responses to their environment and are essential to predict
community responses to environmental conditions under global change. Species differ in life …

Size-and age-dependent natural mortality in fish populations: Biology, models, implications, and a generalized length-inverse mortality paradigm

K Lorenzen - Fisheries Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Natural mortality rates (M) in fish populations vary with body size and age, often by orders of
magnitude over the life cycle. Traditionally, fisheries models and stock assessment methods …

The global ocean size spectrum from bacteria to whales

IA Hatton, RF Heneghan, YM Bar-On, ED Galbraith - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
It has long been hypothesized that aquatic biomass is evenly distributed among logarithmic
body mass size classes. Although this community structure has been observed regionally …

Novel feeding interactions amplify the impact of species redistribution on an Arctic food web

L Pecuchet, MA Blanchet, A Frainer… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species are redistributing globally in response to climate warming, impacting ecosystem
functions and services. In the Barents Sea, poleward expansion of boreal species and a …

Saving large fish through harvest slots outperforms the classical minimum‐length limit when the aim is to achieve multiple harvest and catch‐related fisheries …

RNM Ahrens, MS Allen, C Walters… - Fish and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We address the problem of optimal size‐selective exploitation in an age‐structured fish
population model by systematically examining how density and size dependency in growth …

[HTML][HTML] Need for harmonized long-term multi-lake monitoring of African Great Lakes

PD Plisnier, R Kayanda, S MacIntyre, K Obiero… - Journal of Great Lakes …, 2023 - Elsevier
To ensure the long-term sustainable use of African Great Lakes (AGL), and to better
understand the functioning of these ecosystems, authorities, managers and scientists need …

Temperature impacts on fish physiology and resource abundance lead to faster growth but smaller fish sizes and yields under warming

M Lindmark, A Audzijonyte, JL Blanchard… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Resolving the combined effect of climate warming and exploitation in a food web context is
key for predicting future biomass production, size‐structure and potential yields of marine …

Global analysis of fish growth rates shows weaker responses to temperature than metabolic predictions

D van Denderen, H Gislason… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Higher temperatures increase the metabolic rate of ectothermic organisms up to a
certain level and make them grow faster. This temperature‐sensitivity of growth is frequently …

Jointly modeling marine species to inform the effects of environmental change on an ecological community in the Northwest Atlantic

SM Roberts, PN Halpin, JS Clark - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Single species distribution models (SSDMs) are typically used to understand and predict the
distribution and abundance of marine fish by fitting distribution models for each species …