Supporting Online Material for Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean

By R. Myers, J. Baum, T. Shepherd, Sean Powers, C. Peterson. 2007

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• Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances. (2009, background): “Similarly, following depletion of large sharks on the US east coast, mesopredator release of cownose ray led to depletion of its nearshore bay scallop prey: rayexclusion experiments reveal them as the cause of near-total scallop mortality each fall (Myers et al. 2007; Table 1; Fig.”
• Jellyfish in ecosystems, online databases, and ecosystem models (2008, background): “, Myers et al., 2007), manifest in the emergence of new fisheries for squids and other invertebrates, but which eventually decline as well. Benthic life is also modified: biogenic structures, built over centuries by filter and detritus feeders, are Fig. 8 Fishing down marine food webs: the three sta”
• Effects of body size, age and maturity stage on diet in a large shark: ecological and applied implications (2008, background): “2008) and empirical (Ward and Myers 2005; Shepherd and Myers 2005; Myers et al. 2007) evidence indicates that when populations of large sharks are depleted or extirpated, Table 2 Summary of models used to explain chondrichthyan consumption in number in the copper shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus”
• Examining the knowledge base and status of commercially exploited marine species with the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database (2012, background): “2003) and ecosystem consequences (Frank et al. 2005; Myers et al. 2007) of collapsed fisheries, it is imperative that we are able to learn from both successful and failed fisheries from around the world.”
• Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands (2008, unknown): “As such, there was no evidence of a simple trophic cascade within the reef food web, contrary to some theoretical predictions [41,42].”
• A BALANCED MODEL OF THE FOOD WEB OF THE ROSS SEA, ANTARCTICA (2010, background): “…both directly from by-catches, and indirectly by altering the species composition and inter-specific relationships within the ecosystem through trophic effects, that is, by one species feeding on another (Myers et al., 2007; Daskalov et al., 2007; Heithaus et al., 2008; Casini et al., 2009).”
• Extinction of a shark population in the Archipelago of Saint Paul's Rocks (equatorial Atlantic) inferred from the historical record (2011, background): “Depletion of top-predators and large herbivores by intensive fishing has altered the structure and function of marine systems (Bascompte et al., 2005; Mumby et al., 2006; Myers et al., 2007).”
• Ecological importance of sharks and rays in a structural foodweb analysis in southern Brazil (2014, background): “Many studies have shown that the loss of large sharks causes changes in the intermediate levels of the foodweb (e.g. Stevens et al., 2000; Myers et al., 2007).”
• The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem (2012, background): “Received 27 January 2012, accepted 21 June 2012, published online 26 November 2012”
• Social behaviour in sharks and rays: analysis, patterns and implications for conservation (2012, background): “Worldwide declines in shark populations and the ecological consequences of these declines have been reported widely (Myers and Worm 2003; Worm et al. 2006; Myers et al. 2007; Heithaus et al. 2008).”
• Have jellyfish in the Irish Sea benefited from climate change and overfishing? (2011, background): “…have seen profound changes in the biota of marine systems (Hays et al., 2005) with, for example, the removal of top predators (Rogers & Ellis, 2000; Myers et al., 2007) and major changes in the distribution and phenology of marine plankton (Beaugrand et al., 2003, 2008; Edwards & Richardson, 2004).”
• Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean (2015, background): “, small sharks and rays; (37)]—a phenomenon analogous tomesopredator release observed in terrestrial spheres (38).”