Global warming benefits the small in aquatic ecosystems

By M. Daufresne, Kathrin Lengfellner, Ulrich Sommer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

1,603 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/b4840b49c31a4f105329afe4eb7ceb6fd150e89a

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Global and Planetary Change

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

Citations in the corpus

Ecological Networks in a Changing Climate (2010, background): “In many marine systems, phytoplankton body size tends to increase with nutrient availability, so elevated CO2 should favour larger organisms (the opposite of the case for warmer temperatures; Daufresne et al., 2009; Strecker et al., 2007).”
Trends and management implications of human-influenced life-history changes in marine ectotherms (2016, background): “Studies that have 262 explicitly tested the temperature-size rule in marine invertebrates indicate that one degree of warming 263 results in a 0.5–4% decrease in body size (Daufresne et al. 2009; Irie and Fischer 2009).”
Long-term macroinvertebrate responses to climate change: implications for biological assessment in mediterranean-climate streams (2010, background): “However, evidence exists that aquatic communities could experience dramatic shifts toward smaller size distributions with climate change, a pattern that has been shown for freshwater fishes and phytoplankton (Daufresne et al. 2009).”
Shrinking body size as an ecological response to climate change (2011, background): “The increased temperatures and variability of precipitation associated with climate change are likely to influence the size of organisms, from primary producers to top predator”
Temperature, resources, and phytoplankton size structure in the ocean (2012, background): “Temperature-driven changes in phytoplankton size structure have been explained (Daufresne et al. 2009; Morán et al. 2010) as a manifestation of the temperature– size rule, which states that, other factors being equal, an increase in temperature results in a decrease of mean individual body size…”
Synthesis of thermal tolerances of the common freshwater fish species in large Western Europe rivers (2012, background): “Consequently, the dynamics of populations and communities, their relative composition (Kishi et al., 2005) and their size distribution (Daufresne et al., 2009) are in large proportion governed by ambient thermal regimes.”
Is oxygen limitation in warming waters a valid mechanism to explain decreased body sizes in aquatic ectotherms? (2018, background): “69 70 Keywords: adaptation, alternative mechanisms, climate change, growth, poikilotherm, 71 energy budget, geometric biology, temperature size rule 72 73 1 Introduction 74 75 Declining body size is recognised as a universal response of ectotherms to global warming 76 (Daufresne et al., 2009).”