Ecosystem services are natural processes that benefit humans. Birds contribute the four
types of services recognized by the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment—provisioning …

Wild piscivorous fish, mammals, and birds may be at risk for elevated dietary methylmercury
intake and toxicity. In controlled feeding studies, the consumption of diets that contained Hg …

Determining the form of key predator-prey relationships is critical for understanding marine
ecosystem dynamics. Using a comprehensive global database, we quantified the effect of …

We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …

Differential fractionation of stable isotopes of carbon during photosynthesis causes C4
plants and C3 plants to have distinct carbon-isotope signatures. In addition, marine C3 …

Abstract Microplastics (< 5 mm in size) are known to be widespread in the marine
environment but are still poorly studied in Polar Regions, particularly in the Antarctic. As …

Stable isotopes are now used widely in ecological studies, including diet reconstruction,
where quantitative inferences about diet composition are derived from the use of mixing …

Abstract Barrett, RT, Camphuysen, CJ, Anker-Nilssen, T., Chardine, JW, Furness, RW,
Garthe, S., Hüppop, O., Leopold, MF, Montevecchi, WA, and Veit, RR 2007. Diet studies of …

Stressors associated with human activities interact in complex ways to affect marine
ecosystems, yet we lack spatially explicit assessments of cumulative impacts on ecologically …

Heavy metals contribute to the anthropogenic contamination of marine ecosystems. Some of
them are essential to the life processes of organisms; others are toxic, even at low …