Trophic Cascades in a Formerly Cod-Dominated Ecosystem

By K. Frank, B. Petrie, Jae-sun Choi, W. C. Leggett. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Forage fish, their fisheries, and their predators: who drives whom? (2014, background): “induced by the exploitation of predator species (Frank et al., 2005; Casini et al., 2008).”
Mesopelagic zone ecology and biogeochemistry - a synthesis (2010, background): “The removal of top predators from the oceanic food chain can have profound effects on pelagic ecosystems (Frank et al., 2005; Worm et al., 2005, 2006).”
Body size‐dependent responses of a marine fish assemblage to climate change and fishing over a century‐long scale (2010, background): “predators and their overharvesting can have broader ecosystem-level implications, including cascading density-dependent effects on other trophic levels (Frank et al., 2005; Myers et al., 2007).”
Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish (2012, background): “…effects which have become apparent in the core distribution area of the stock illustrate that novel management measures are increasingly needed to support the recovery of predator species in ecosystems, which in fact may not be any longer structured to sustain large cod stocks (Frank et al. 2005).”
The recruitment of Atlantic salmon in Europe (2009, background): “, 2003), as has been seen elsewhere (Frank et al., 2005), and an increase in phytoplankton standing crop, which we suspect has resulted in an increase in the benthic flux and a loss of energy from the ecosystem.”
Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances. (2009, background): “A similar cascade may have followed the Scotian Shelf cod collapse (Frank et al. 2005): cod and other benthic fishes showed the predicted correlations with large herbivorous zooplankton and phytoplankton, but the plankton data were patchy (time series were unavailable from the early 1970s to early…”
Abundance estimates of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans/miles complex in the Western North Atlantic (2006, background): “The effect of climate change, overfishing and invasive species have been implicated in ecosystem decline and collapse in several marine ecosystems (Harris and Tyrrell 2001; Stachowicz et al. 2002; Frank et al. 2005).”
Recruitment failure of coastal predatory fish in the Baltic Sea coincident with an offshore ecosystem regime shift (2010, background): “Large predatory fish have declined on a global scale, generating cascading ecosystem effects in coastal and pelagic marine communities (Estes et al., 1998; Frank et al., 2005; Halpern et al., 2006; Daskalov et al., 2007).”
Assessing the trophic position and ecological role of squids in marine ecosystems by means of food-web models (2013, background): “, 2008; Zeidberg and Robison, 2007), similar to other invertebrates such as jellyfish and shrimps (Frank et al., 2005; Pauly et al., 2009).”
Changes in Barents Sea ecosystem state, 1970 -2009: climate fluctuations, human impact, and trophic interactions (2012, background): “Removing top predators such as demersal fish through fisheries might cause trophic cascades and abrupt changes in ecosystem state (Frank et al., 2005).”
Climate-driven changes in coastal marine systems of western Europe (2010, background): “Some studies have documented potential links from phyto- plankton to zooplankton to higher trophic levels (Aebischer et al. 1990, Frank et al. 2005, Lehodey et al. 2006).”