Energy flow through marine ecosystems: confronting transfer efficiency

TD Eddy, JR Bernhardt, JL Blanchard… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an
emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to …

Status of biodiversity in the Baltic Sea

H Ojaveer, A Jaanus, BR MacKenzie, G Martin… - PLoS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The brackish Baltic Sea hosts species of various origins and environmental tolerances.
These immigrated to the sea 10,000 to 15,000 years ago or have been introduced to the …

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

K Richardson, W Steffen, W Lucht, J Bendtsen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are
transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for …

Impacts of historical warming on marine fisheries production

CM Free, JT Thorson, ML Pinsky, KL Oken… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Climate change is altering habitats for marine fishes and invertebrates, but the net effect of
these changes on potential food production is unknown. We used temperature-dependent …

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 …

Ocean solutions to address climate change and its effects on marine ecosystems

JP Gattuso, AK Magnan, L Bopp… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Paris Agreement target of limiting global surface warming to 1.5–2° C compared to pre-
industrial levels by 2100 will still heavily impact the ocean. While ambitious mitigation and …

Recent declines in salmon body size impact ecosystems and fisheries

KB Oke, CJ Cunningham, PAH Westley… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Declines in animal body sizes are widely reported and likely impact ecological interactions
and ecosystem services. For harvested species subject to multiple stressors, limited …

Heatwave‐induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators

ML Arimitsu, JF Piatt, S Hatch, RM Suryan… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
During the Pacific marine heatwave of 2014–2016, abundance and quality of several key
forage fish species in the Gulf of Alaska were simultaneously reduced throughout the …

Ocean systems

HO Pörtner, DM Karl, PW Boyd, W Cheung… - Climate change 2014 …, 2014 - epic.awi.de
Ocean ecosystems have responded and will continue to respond to climate changes of
different rates, magnitudes, and durations (virtually certain). Human societies depend on …

Aquatic food security: insights into challenges and solutions from an analysis of interactions between fisheries, aquaculture, food safety, human health, fish and human …

S Jennings, GD Stentiford, AM Leocadio… - Fish and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fisheries and aquaculture production, imports, exports and equitability of distribution
determine the supply of aquatic food to people. Aquatic food security is achieved when a …