Small pelagics in upwelling systems: patterns of interaction and structural changes in "wasp-waist" ecosystems

By Philippe Cury, A. Bakun, R. Crawford, A. Jarre, R. Quiñones, L. Shannon, H. Verheye. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Forage fish, their fisheries, and their predators: who drives whom? (2014, background): “Forage fish are planktivorous pelagic species that often form the major avenue for transforming zooplankton production into food available to higher trophic levels (Cury et al., 2000; Alder et al., 2008; Bakun et al., 2010).”
Overlap between vulnerable top predators and fisheries in the Benguela upwelling system: implications for marine protected areas (2009, background): “Upwelling systems, such as the Humboldt and the Benguela regions, are waspwaist ecosystems (Cury et al. 2000), largely rely on a species-poor intermediate trophic level dominated by 2 genera of small pelagic fish (sardines Sardinops spp. and anchovies Engraulis spp.) that regulate the transfer of…”
Simulations of fishing effects on the southern Benguela fish community using an individual-based model: learning from a comparison with ECOSIM (2004, background): “N N ,Z1 0 0= −e N ' SB ,Z1 0= −φ e N SB ,Z '1 0= −φ e Z ' Z n ' /0 0= − l ( ) .φ φ when simulating a permanent four-fold increase in fishing mortality of small pelagic fish, under mixed and wasp-waist (Cury et al. 2000) control scenarios.”
Spatial ecology and conservation of seabirds facing global climate change: a review (2009, neutral): “Finally, Cury et al. (2000) suggested that upwelling ecosystems have a 'wasp-waist' structure, whereby intermediate trophic levels (small pelagic fish) exert both bottom-up and top-down control , thereby playing a crucial role in the response of these food webs subjected to climate-driven El Niño…”
Pelagic fish assemblages assessed using mid-water baited video: standardising fish counts using bait plume size (2007, background): “Conservation and monitoring programs based on accurate survey data are becoming increasingly urgent, as many pelagic species have experienced serious stock declines (Cury et al. 2000, Myers & Worm 2003).”
Microplastic fragments and microbeads in digestive tracts of planktivorous fish from urban coastal waters (2016, positive): “Nine species of Engraulis are distributed in coastal waters around the world and are ecologically important because of their huge biomass and their central role in the diet of many fish, birds, and marine mammals 42 .”
Multi-species regime shifts reflected in spawning temperature optima of small pelagic fish in the western North Pacific (2008, result): “On the contrary, our theoretical framework may be in agreement with the ‘wasp-waist’ control (Cury et al. 2000, Bakun 2006), in which a few dominant small pelagic species adversely exert effects on communities at lower and upper trophic levels.”
Trophodynamic indicators for an ecosystem approach to fisheries (2005, background): “…or inverse trends across predatoreprey and TL: Bu-Td-Mx, effect of fishery (Pauly et al., 1989; Aebischer et al., 1990; Caddy and Garibaldi, 2000; Cury et al., 2000; Carr, 2002; Daskalov, 2002, 2003) Production e PP and secondary production, recruitment/survey experiments, models Trends,…”
META-ANALYSIS OF COD-SHRIMP INTERACTIONS REVEALS TOP-DOWN CONTROL IN OCEANIC FOOD WEBS (2003, positive): “1 E-mail: Boris.Worm@dal.ca the assumed balance of ‘‘bottom-up’’ vs. ‘‘top-down’’ control (Walters et al. 1997, Cury et al. 2000, Bundy 2001).”
An Ecological Imbalance Induced by a Non-Native Species: The Manila Clam in the Venice Lagoon (2006, background): “In this context, the ecological role of R. philippinarum could be assimilated to a wasp-waist control, where a single, usually planktivorous species simultaneously exerts a top-down and a bottom-up control (Cury et al. 2000).”
Interannual variability in the Northern California Current food web structure: Changes in energy flow pathways and the role of forage fish, euphausiids, and jellyfish (2012, methodology): “This has been termed a ‘‘wasp-waist’’ control mechanism in analogy with bottom-up and top-down control mechanisms (Bakun, 2006; Cury et al., 2000, 2002).”
Food, fishing and seabirds in the Benguela upwelling system (2007, background): “The numbers of African Penguins breeding at certain colonies in the region were strongly related to pelagic fish biomass (e.g. Cury et al. 2000; Crawford et al. 2001).”