Understanding marine regime shifts is important not only for ecology but also for developing
marine management that assures the provision of ecosystem services to humanity. While …

Abrupt and rapid shifts in food web and community structure, commonly termed regime
shifts, have been increasingly reported for exploited marine ecosystems around the world …

Climate change and resource exploitation have been shown to modify the importance of
bottom-up and top-down forces in ecosystems. However, the resulting pattern of trophic …

Regime shifts in ecosystem structure and processes are typically studied from a temporal
perspective. Yet, theory predicts that in large ecosystems with environmental gradients …

In many coastal areas, marine ecosystems have shifted into contrasting states having
reduced ecosystem services (hereafter called degraded). Such degraded ecosystems may …

Overfishing of large-bodied benthic fishes and their subsequent population collapses on the
Scotian Shelf of Canada's east coast, and elsewhere, resulted in restructuring of entire food …

Collapses and regime changes are pervasive in complex systems (such as marine
ecosystems) governed by multiple stressors. The demise of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) …

Abstract Johannesen, E., Ingvaldsen, RB, Bogstad, B., Dalpadado, P., Eriksen, E., Gjøsæter,
H., Knutsen, T., Skern-Mauritzen, M., and Stiansen, JE 2012. Changes in Barents Sea …

Under rapid environmental change, opportunistic species may exhibit dramatic increases in
response to the altered conditions, and can in turn have large impacts on the ecosystem …

Regime shifts are difficult‐to‐reverse transitions that occur when an ecosystem reorganizes
around a new set of self‐reinforcing feedbacks. Regime shifts are predicted to occur when …