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 …

Charles Elton introduced the “pyramid of numbers” in the late 1920s, but this remarkable
insight into body-size dependent patterns in natural communities lay fallow until the theory of …

Model intercomparison studies in the climate and Earth sciences communities have been
crucial to building credibility and coherence for future projections. They have quantified …

Wild‐caught fish are a bioavailable source of nutritious food that, if managed strategically,
could enhance diet quality for billions of people. However, optimising nutrient production …

Fish are one of the most important global food sources, supplying a significant share of the
world's protein consumption. From stocks of wild Alaskan salmon and North Sea cod to …

Macroecology has traditionally relied on descriptive characterization of large-scale
ecological patterns to offer narrative explanations for the origin and maintenance of those …

Despite the many scientific and public discussions on the sustainability of fisheries, there are
still great differences in both perception and definition of the concept. Most authors now …

The potential influence of climate change on the future distribution and abundance of fish
(and therefore commercial fisheries and food security) is increasingly recognized in the …

Despite their critical role as the main energy pathway between phytoplankton and fish, the
functional complexity of zooplankton is typically poorly resolved in marine ecosystem …

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 …