Use of size-based production and stable isotope analyses to predict trophic transfer efficiencies and predator-prey body mass ratios in food webs

By S. Jennings, K. Warr, Steven Mackinson. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. Wwl Cheung
2. Daniel Pauly
3. B. Popp
4. R. Watson
5. S. Jennings
6. Ş. Akın
7. I. Senina
8. N. Dulvy

In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Jennings
2. Wwl Cheung
3. Daniel Pauly
4. Peter B. Reich
5. R. Watson
6. B. Popp
7. I. Wright
8. N. Dulvy

Citations in the corpus

• Body size and trophic position in a temperate estuarine food web (2008, background): “…density (Peters, 1983; Marquet et al., 1990; Blackburn et al., 1993; Damuth, 1993; Schmid et al., 2000; Cohen et al., 2003; Brown and Gillooly, 2003; Ackerman et al., 2004), species distributions (Brown et al., 1993; Greenwood et al., 1996) and secondary production (Jennings et al., 2002).”
• Reference points and reference directions for size-based indicators of community structure (2005, background): “Further details of the IBTS data and metric calculations are provided in Jennings et al. (2002a), and Nicholson and Jennings (2004).”
• Projected climate change and the changing biogeography of coastal Mediterranean fishes (2013, background): “…and ecology of organisms such as metabolic rate, growth and mortality, clutch size, egg mass, age at first maturity, survivorship (Hildrew & Townsend, 2007), population density (Blackburn et al., 1993), spatial distribution (Brown & Maurer, 1989) and secondary production (Jennings et al., 2002).”
• Cumulative impacts of seabed trawl disturbance on benthic biomass, production, and species richness in different habitats (2006, methodology): “(a) Central North Sea, data from Jennings et al. (2002b) .”
• Application of macroecological theory to predict effects of climate change on global fisheries potential (2008, background): “However, trophic levels change during ontogeny (Pauly et al. 2001), and thus a single value of trophic level may not capture the full range of trophic levels that an organism can occupy in an ecosystem (Jennings et al. 2002, Jennings & Mackinson 2003).”
• Isotopic evidence of distinct feeding ecologies and movement patterns in two migratory predators (yellowfin tuna and swordfish) of the western Indian Ocean (2007, background): “Analyses of stomach contents and nitrogen isotope ratios conducted on fish communities in different marine ecosystems have shown that prey size and trophic level generally increase with increasing predatory body size (Scharf et al. 2000; Jennings et al. 2002; Estrada et al. 2006).”
• Connecting the green and brown worlds . allometric and stoichiometric predictability of above- and below-ground networks (2013, background): “8 in a continuum due to derivation from the mass–abundance scaling (Box 2.1) Jennings et al. (2002), Jennings and Mackinson (2003), Kerr and Dickie (2001), Mulder (2006), Mulder et al. (2008, 2009), Mulder and Elser (2009), Sheldon et al. (1972), Siemann et al. (1996) Almost always positive, but…”
• Bridging the gap from ocean models to population dynamics of large marine predators: A model of mid-trophic functional groups (2010, background): “Stable isotope analyses are the other valuable source of information to assess energy transfer from primary production to upper trophic levels (Jennings et al., 2002) including the mid-trophic groups, and are particularly well suited for comparisons with model outputs based on carbon or nitrogen cyc”
• Variable uptake and elimination of stable nitrogen isotopes between tissues in fish (2006, background): “Stable nitrogen isotope analysis is a potentially powerful tool for providing quantitative information about energy flows in food webs (Hobson and Welch 1992; Jennings et al. 2002), temporal food web structure (Vander Zanden et al. 2003), and routes of migration (Hesslein et al. 1993).”
• Stable nitrogen isotope studies of the pelagic food web on the Atlantic shelf of the Iberian Peninsula (2007, methodology): “Food webs are thus structured in terms of organism size, as demonstrated in plankton (Fry & Quiñones, 1994, Rolff, 2000) and fish communities (Jennings et al., 2002a; Jennings & Mackinson, 2003).”
• Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean (2010, methodology): “Larger consumers often have higher d(15)N values than smaller individuals because they can eat larger prey with higher trophic status (Jennings et al., 2002; Estrada et al., 2003; Sarà and Sarà, 2007).”
• Stable isotopic evidence for trophic groupings and bio-regionalization of predators and their prey in oceanic waters off eastern Australia (2009, background): “of low relative importance ( Jennings et al. 2001, 2002 ).”
• Food web studies in a Norwegian kelp forest based on stable isotope (δ13C and δ15N) analysis (2003, background): “Many researchers have addressed questions about marine food webs by studying ratios of naturally occurring stable carbon (13C/12C) and nitrogen (15N/14N) isotopes (e.g. Dunton & Schell 1987, Hobson & Welch 1992, Dauby et al. 1998, Kaelher et al. 2000, Lesage et al. 2001, Jennings et al. 2002).”