Antarctic futures: an assessment of climate-driven changes in ecosystem structure, function, and service provisioning in the Southern Ocean

AD Rogers, BAV Frinault, DKA Barnes… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this article, we analyze the impacts of climate change on Antarctic marine ecosystems.
Observations demonstrate large-scale changes in the physical variables and circulation of …

Predator interactions, mesopredator release and biodiversity conservation

EG Ritchie, CN Johnson - Ecology letters, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing recognition of the important roles played by predators in regulating
ecosystems and sustaining biodiversity. Much attention has focused on the consequences of …

Cascading top‐down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances

JK Baum, B Worm - Journal of animal ecology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Top‐down control can be an important determinant of ecosystem structure and
function, but in oceanic ecosystems, where cascading effects of predator depletions …

Oceanic circumpolar habitats of Antarctic krill

A Atkinson, V Siegel, EA Pakhomov, P Rothery… - Marine Ecology …, 2008 - int-res.com
Surveys of Euphausia superba often target localised shelves and ice edges where their
growth rates and predation losses are atypically high. Emphasis on these areas has led to …

Spatial ecology and conservation of seabirds facing global climate change: a review

D Grémillet, T Boulinier - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2009 - int-res.com
In this review we detail the impact of climate change on marine productivity, on marine
environmental stochasticity and cyclicity, and on the spatio-temporal match–mismatch of …

Spatially integrated assessment reveals widespread changes in penguin populations on the Antarctic Peninsula

HJ Lynch, R Naveen, PN Trathan, WF Fagan - Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
As important marine mesopredators and sensitive indicators of Antarctic ecosystem change,
penguins have been a major focus of long‐term biological research in the Antarctic …

Direct evidence of a prey depletion “halo” surrounding a pelagic predator colony

SB Weber, AJ Richardson, J Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Colonially breeding birds and mammals form some of the largest gatherings of apex
predators in the natural world and have provided model systems for studying mechanisms of …

The oceanography and ecology of the Ross Sea

WO Smith Jr, DG Ainley, KR Arrigo… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The continental shelf of the Ross Sea exhibits substantial variations in physical forcing, ice
cover, and biological processes on a variety of time and space scales. Its circulation is …

Hemispheric asymmetry in ocean change and the productivity of ecosystem sentinels

WJ Sydeman, DS Schoeman, SA Thompson… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Climate change and other human activities are causing profound effects on marine
ecosystem productivity. We show that the breeding success of seabirds is tracking …

Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

NP Kelley, ND Pyenson - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND More than 30 different lineages of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and
mammals have independently invaded oceans ecosystems. Prominent examples include …