Interaction strength combinations and the overfishing of a marine food web.

By Jordi Bascompte, Carlos J. Melián, E. Sala. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Habitat use and demographic population structure of elasmobranchs at a Caribbean atoll (Glover's Reef, Belize) (2005, background): “…by elasmobranchs is a topic of current and increasing research interest, in part because recent studies have started to reveal the important role these top-level predators may play in structuring marine communities (Stevens et al. 2000, Heithaus et al. 2002, Heithaus 2004, Bascompte et al. 2005).”
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Apparent Resource Partitioning and Trophic Structure of Large-Bodied Marine Predators in a Relatively Pristine Seagrass Ecosystem (2013, background): “…overlap or divergence in trophic interactions of upper trophic level predators is important because the degree of trophic redundancy and intraguild predation (when predator and prey also compete for resources) play important roles in community stability (e.g. Bascompte et al. 2005, Kondoh 2008).”
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Habitat use, residency, and seasonal distribution of female leopard sharks Triakis semifasciata in Elkhorn Slough, California (2009, background): “As upper trophic level predators in these ecosystems, they likely play an important role in maintaining the composition and stability of food webs as has been demonstrated in other ecosystems (Musick et al. 2000, Stevens et al. 2000, Bascompte et al. 2005).”
Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances. (2009, background): “Second, by targeting top predators, exploitation removes species likely to be strong interactors ( Bascompte, Melia & Sala 2005 ).”
Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks: The Architecture of Biodiversity (2007, background): “Knowing how these perturbations will propagate through the community requires a network approach ([ 2 ]), and ultimately a combination of natural history, search for invariant patterns, and analytical thinking.”
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: an assessment of coral reef fishes in the US Pacific Islands (2013, background): “Large-bodied species play a critical role in structuring marine ecosystems (Bascompte et al. 2005; Estes et al. 2011), and severe reductions in their biomass have detrimental ecological and economic effects (Pauly et al.”
Baselines and Degradation of Coral Reefs in the Northern Line Islands (2008, neutral): “As such, there was no evidence of a simple trophic cascade within the reef food web, contrary to some theoretical predictions [41,42].”
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).”
Hierarchical Network Structure Promotes Dynamical Robustness (2014, background): “For example, at the ecological level, a system subjected to the environmental stress of overfishing, which may imply selection for robustness, has been observed to exhibit such a bias toward more hierarchical network architectures [50].”
First characterization of shark nursery habitat in the United States Virgin Islands: evidence of habitat partitioning by two shark species (2008, background): “…is theoretical support from Caribbean food-web models that the overfishing of sharks and other top predators may have contributed to this shift (Bascompte et al. 2005); local marine managers suspect that this is the case (Rogers & Beets 2001), as the decline of reef fish fauna and top-level…”
Quantifying movement patterns for shark conservation at remote coral atolls in the Indian Ocean (2011, background): “Ultimately, the loss of apex marine predators, including elasmobranchs and large teleosts, can lead to permanent shifts in communities and alternate equilibrium states (Cortés 1999; Friedlander and DeMartini 2002; Bascompte et al. 2005; Myers et al. 2007).”