The Biomass Spectrum: A Predator-Prey Theory of Aquatic Production

By W. G. Sprules, S. R. Kerr, L. M. Dickie. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering

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The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “…the energy is lost from one trophic level to the next through respiration, excretion, and export processes (e.g. vertical flux; Cohen et al., 2003; Kerr and Dickie, 2001), differences in food chain length resulting from the size structure of the primary producers have significant implications for…”
Cumulative impacts of seabed trawl disturbance on benthic biomass, production, and species richness in different habitats (2006, background): “Analyses based on body size consistently explain the fundamental aspects of community structure at many scales and in many ecosystems (Brown and West 2000; Kerr and Dickie 2001).”
Projecting changes in the distribution and productivity of living marine resources: A critical review of the suite of modelling approaches used in the large European project VECTORS (2016, background): “…spectrum models can distribute the biomass of marine organisms across multiple sizes, based on empirically observed patterns (Sheldon et a ., 1972, Kerr and Dickie, 2001 and Jennings et al., 2008) or theoretical predictions (Platt and Denman, 1977, Kerr and Dickie, 2001 and Brown et al., 2004).”
Abundance-body mass relationships in size-structured food webs (2003, background): “Abundance–body mass relationships are widely studied macroecological patterns (Damuth 1981; Dickie et al. 1987; Enquist et al. 1998; Brown & West 2000; Gaston & Blackburn 2000; Enquist & Niklas 2001; Kerr & Dickie 2001; Cohen et al. 2003).”
Size structural change in lightly exploited coral reef fish communities: Evidence for weak indirect effects (2004, background): “The body size of a species determines much of its ecology, life history, population dynamics, and vulnerability to exploitation, particularly in the sea (Charnov 1993; Pope et al. 1994; Kerr and Dickie 2001).”
Towards ecosystem-based management: identifying operational food-web indicators for marine ecosystems (2017, background): “Important instances of such indicators are those addressing emergent properties of food webs, which are commonly occurring and consistent patterns in trophodynamics of marine ecosystems (Kerr and Dickie, 2001; de Ruiter et al., 2005; ICES, 2013a; Rossberg, 2013; Link et al., 2015).”
Predatory fish invaders: Insights from Indo-Pacific lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean (2013, background): “…current hypotheses because of their potential to be involved in predatory interactions which, in the sea, are affected strongly by the relative body sizes of predators and prey (Kerr and Dickie, 2001) and are an important force structuring marine communities (Hixon, 1991; Jennings et al., 2001).”
Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators (2014, background): “The consequence is that size-structuring within communities, rather than species identity, is an important factor in determining the strength of competitive and predatory interactions (Dickie et al. 1987, Kerr & Dickie 2001).”
Demersal assemblages off portugal : Mapping, seasonal, and temporal patterns (2005, background): “Assuming a tendency for larger fish to feed u arger prey items (Kerr and Dickie, 2001), the observe ifferences in fish size by latitude, appears to b greement with the claim that species diversity of z lankton is lower to the north, with shorter food cha nd smaller organisms, leading directly to…”
Why does metabolism scale with temperature (2004, background): “Despite the stronger claims that allometry provided a theory of size (Peters 1983), the field of scaling has not provided the conceptual framework that is needed, although it has supplied useful analytical tools for studies of energy flow through aquatic food webs ( Kerr & Dickie 2001 ).”
Resource limitation alters the 3/4 size scaling of metabolic rates in phytoplankton (2004, background): “Many fundamental macroecological patterns, such as abundance and diversity, have been related to organism size (Gould 1966, Peters 1983, Bonner 1988, Brown 1995, Kerr & Dickie 2001, Trammer 2002).”
Invited Review - Fight on Plankton! or, Phytoplankton Shape and Size as Adaptive Tools to Get Ahead in the Struggle for Life (2011, background): “…and energy use across species, were investigated in the work from Sheldon & Parsons (1967), Sheldon et al. (1972, 1977), Cyr & Peters (1996) and Kerr & Dickie (2001); iii) structure of food webs includes work from Lindeman (1942), Odum (1956), Hutchinson (1959), Carpenter & Kitchell (1988),…”
Use of size-based production and stable isotope analyses to predict trophic transfer efficiencies and predator-prey body mass ratios in food webs (2002, background): “There are good theoretical and empirical reasons to adopt size-based approaches (Kerr & Dickie 2001), but predator-prey relationships are constrained by many factors other than body size (Pimm et al. 1991, Hall & Raffaelli 1993), and our analyses are necessarily approximations of a more complex…”
Coupled energy pathways and the resilience of size-structured food webs (2011, background): “…a drawback of this view is that individual organisms often change in body size over several orders of magnitude within the course of their lives (Kerr and Dickie 2001; Belgrano et al. 2005), and trophic links are more strongly dictated by an individual's body size than species identity…”