Variability of species' roles in marine communities: change of paradigms for conservation priorities

By S. Piraino, G. Fanelli, F. Boero. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography

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A conceptual framework for marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (2007, background): “The answer is: very few (Piraino et al. 2002).”
Ecological role, fishing impact, and management options for the recovery of a Mediterranean endemic skate by means of food web models (2013, background): “These divergences illustrate that the concept of keystone species is a complicated one (Piraino et al., 2002; Jordan et al., 2008) and that the way it is mathematically quantified and applied in trophic models requires further development.”
Effects of climate on relative predation by scyphomedusae and ctenophores on copepods in Chesapeake Bay during 1987‐2000 (2005, background): “Relative importance of medusae and ctenophores as predators in Chesapeake Bay—In a previous analysis of the 1987 and 1988 data (Chrysaora years), Purcell et al. (1994b) estimated predation by C.”
Topological keystone species : measures of positional importance in food webs (2006, background): “a2,ij) was originally developed by Rott and Godfray (2000) for assessing apparent competition in a host /parasitoid community (Müller and Godfray 1999, Müller et al.”
Identifying keystone predators and the importance of preserving functional diversity in sublittoral rocky-bottom areas (2010, background): “Such species should be designated ‘keystone species’ (Paine 1966, Piraino et al. 2002) or members of a ‘keystone guild’ (McClanahan 1995) and protected by future management policies.”
Behaviour analysis of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta from direct in-water observation (2006, background): “Information about behaviour and interactions at the level of individuals is key to understanding how an animal may impact the surrounding community as well as ecosystem function, organisation and response to disturbance (Piraino et al. 2002).”
How many habitats are there in the sea (and where) (2008, background): “Abundant sessile organisms such as algae, higher plants, and sessile animals, usually labelled as habitat formers, cover the primary geological component (see Piraino et al., 2002 for a review).”
A method for identifying keystone species in food web models (2006, background): “Keystone species strongly influence the abundances of other species and the ecosystem dynamic (Piraino et al., 2002).”
Linking Keystone Species and Functional Groups: A New Operational Definition of the Keystone Species Concept (2003, background): “Subsequent reviews by Martinez (1996), Hulbert (1997), Kotliar (2000), Bond (2001), and Piraino et al. (2002) suggest that the KS definition proposed by the Keystone Cops (Power et al. 1996) has limited applied value for conservation ecology.”
Consumers of sea urchins, Paracentrotus lividus and Arbacia lixula, in shallow Mediterranean rocky reefs (2004, background): “…focus on the population recovery of these functionally important predatory fishes, which may be assigned to the status of ‘keystone species’ (see Piraino et al. 2002 for a review), or members of a ‘keystone guild’ (McClanahan 1995), as their simultaneous removal has the potential to…”
Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa (2004, background): “Ecological roles have been taken as a very important issue to emit judgement about the relevance of species, so to produce convincing evidence about the need for their protection (Piraino et al., 2002).”
Gelatinous plankton: irregularities rule the world (sometimes) (2008, background): “While the influence of unusually large populations of predators is often negative, gelatinous carnivores at low densities might represent a keystone guild (Piraino et al. 2002, Purcell & Decker 2005).”
The Concept of Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers Ten Years On: Progress, Limitations, and Challenges (2006, background): “Some reviews (Dorn and Mittelbach 1999, Martius et al. 2001, Coleman and Williams 2002, Crooks 2002, Piraino et al. 2002, Crain and Bertness 2006) and modeling studies (Cuddington and Hastings 2004, Wright et al. 2004) have pointed out some of the general management ramifications of the ecosystem…”