Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

By D. McCauley, Malin Pinsky, Stephen R. Palumbi, J. Estes, Francis H. Joyce, R. R. Warner. Science, 2015

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective (2016, background): “…that despite recent local increases in herbivory, which have attracted attention to the role of herbivores in benthic ecosystems, over longer time frames in particularly species of large herbivores have experienced strong global declines (Jackson, 1997; McCauley et al., 2015; Bakker et al. 2016b).”
Species richness change across spatial scales (2019, background): “At the global scale, 10 historical and modern anthropogenic factors have directly and indirectly caused the extinction of 11 many taxa (Barnosky et al. 2011, Pimm et al. 2014, Alroy 2015, McCauley et al. 2015), leading 12 to a decline in global-scale species richness.”
GAPeDNA: Assessing and mapping global species gaps in genetic databases for eDNA metabarcoding (2021, background): “Marine systems are under severe defaunation with numerous local species extinctions (McCauley et al., 2015) and also experiencing the highest rates of biodiversity changes under the combined effects of climate change and direct human impacts (Blowes et al., 2019).”
Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis. (2021, positive): “The increasing likelihood of extinction in the marine realm suggests that chondrichthyans may face a future similar to that of biodiversity on land, where human pressures have led to the loss of numerous species and possibly triggered a sixth mass extinction.(7,59,75) Immediate, global implementatio”
Marine Vertebrate Biodiversity and Distribution Within the Central California Current Using Environmental DNA (eDNA) Metabarcoding and Ecosystem Surveys (2019, background): “Marine biodiversity is in decline globally in part due to overfishing, pollution, and climate change (Jackson et al., 2001; Pauly et al., 2002; Cheung et al., 2013; Barange et al., 2014; Haigh et al., 2015; McCauley et al., 2015; Somero et al., 2016).”
Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Anthropocene Defaunation (2016, background): “Species that use multiple ecosystems or are extremely wide ranging are also experiencing an elevated threat (McCauley et al. 2015b).”
Are we eating the world's megafauna to extinction? (2019, methodology): “We obtained body mass data from the Amniote database for mammals, reptiles, and birds (Myhrvold et al., 2015), and acquired body lengths from FishBase for ray-ﬁnned and cartilaginous ﬁsh (Froese & Pauly, 2000) and AmphibiaWeb for amphibians (AmphibiaWeb, 2016).”
The mechanics of blue growth: Management of oceanic natural resource use with multiple, interacting sectors (2018, background): “Continued economic growth from the oceans is likely to lead to more cross-sector conflicts and the potential for environmental destruction, sub-optimal natural resource use, and other socially undesirable outcomes [6].”
Salp swarm algorithm: a comprehensive survey (2019, background): “Over 1.2 million species of marine organisms already cataloged in a central database [31].”
The Anthropocene biosphere (2015, background): “In fisheries, human activities are happening on an industrial scale (McCauley et al., 2015), with 90 million tonnes of wild fish being removed from the oceans”
The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes (2019, background): “One of the defining features of the Anthropocene will be the loss of biodiversity, both on land and in the oceans (Dirzo et al., 2014; McCauley et al., 2015).”