The functional and ecological significance of deep diving by large marine predators

CD Braun, MC Arostegui, SR Thorrold… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Many large marine predators make excursions from surface waters to the deep ocean below
200 m. Moreover, the ability to access meso-and bathypelagic habitats has evolved …

Anticyclonic eddies aggregate pelagic predators in a subtropical gyre

MC Arostegui, P Gaube, PA Woodworth-Jefcoats… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Ocean eddies are coherent, rotating features that can modulate pelagic ecosystems across
many trophic levels. These mesoscale features, which are ubiquitous at mid-latitudes, may …

A review of the fisheries, life history and stock structure of tropical tuna (skipjack Katsuwonus pelamis, yellowfin Thunnus albacares and bigeye Thunnus obesus) in …

I Artetxe-Arrate, I Fraile, F Marsac, JH Farley… - Advances in Marine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye
(Thunnus obesus) tuna are the target species of tropical tuna fisheries in the Indian Ocean …

Humanity's diverse predatory niche and its ecological consequences

CT Darimont, R Cooke, ML Bourbonnais… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Although humans have long been predators with enduring nutritive and cultural
relationships with their prey, seldom have conservation ecologists considered the divergent …

Plastic ingestion and trophic transfer between Easter Island flying fish (Cheilopogon rapanouiensis) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) from Rapa Nui (Easter …

C Chagnon, M Thiel, J Antunes, JL Ferreira… - Environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Millimetre-sized fragments have been documented in many fish species, but their transfer
through food webs is still poorly understood. Here we quantified and described plastic …

Deep pelagic food web structure as revealed by in situ feeding observations

CA Choy, SHD Haddock… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Food web linkages, or the feeding relationships between species inhabiting a shared
ecosystem, are an ecological lens through which ecosystem structure and function can be …

A shallow scattering layer structures the energy seascape of an open ocean predator

MC Arostegui, B Muhling, E Culhane, H Dewar… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Large predators frequent the open ocean where subsurface light drives visually based
trophic interactions. However, we lack knowledge on how predators achieve energy balance …

Prevalence of microplastics and anthropogenic debris within a deep-sea food web

BM Hamilton, CM Rochman, TJ Hoellein… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Microplastic particles (< 5 mm) are ubiquitous throughout global marine ecosystems,
including the deep sea. Ingestion of microplastics and other anthropogenic microparticles is …

Mesopelagic fishes are important prey for a diversity of predators

IS Iglesias, JA Santora, J Fiechter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Through daily vertical movements, mesopelagic fishes contribute to global carbon export
and, when eaten, link primary consumers to higher trophic level predators. Although the …

A global meta‐analysis of marine predator nitrogen stable isotopes: Relationships between trophic structure and environmental conditions

H Pethybridge, CA Choy, JM Logan… - Global Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We examined potential environmental drivers of broad‐scale spatial patterns in the
trophic structure of marine ecosystems as represented by nitrogen stable isotopes in …