Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances.

By J. Baum, Boris Worm. Journal of Animal Ecology, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Global variation in marine fish body size and its role in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning (2010, background): “The most recent examples of exploitation-driven trophic cascades also come from the North Atlantic region (Frank et al. 2007, Baum & Worm 2009).”
Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators (2014, background): “The loss of predation and the resultant indirect effects of mesopredator release and trophic cascades have resulted in widespread trophic downgrading of ecosystems (Crooks & Soulé 1999, Baum & Worm 2009, Estes et al. 2011).”
Trophic cascades in the western Ross Sea, Antarctica: revisited (2015, background): “As the capacity for top-down forcing declines due to upper-level predator removal (e.g. Jackson et al. 2001, Myers & Worm 2003, Baum & Worm 2009, Estes et al. 2011, Cheung et al. 2013), and as changes associated with climate modification increase (e.g. Thomas et al. 2004, Ainley et al. 2010, Cheung…”
Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish (2012, background): “This is probably because declines in predator species have in many cases been followed by a pronounced increase in prey biomass (Myers and Worm 2003; Baum & Worm 2009), and food limitation for recovering predator populations is therefore not expected.”
Human Involvement in Food Webs (2010, background): “In the past few years, fisheries studies with a top-down point of departure have become more frequent (74).”
Extinction of a shark population in the Archipelago of Saint Paul's Rocks (equatorial Atlantic) inferred from the historical record (2011, background): “A well-known phenomenon is the top-down trophic cascade that may occur after the release of prey from predatory control (reviews in Heithaus et al. (2008) and Baum and Worm (2009)).”
Changes in diet and trophic position of a top predator 10 years after a mass mortality of a key prey (2010, background): “Several studies have shown that after the disappearance of a primary prey, whether through climate-related change or commercial fisheries, seabirds exhibit decreased breeding performance and eventually lower population size (Frank et al., 2005; Myers et al., 2007; Baum and Worm, 2009).”
Ecological role of large benthic decapods in marine ecosystems: a review (2012, background): “One of the commonly described ecosystem effects of fishing marine predators has been an increase in benthic invertebrates, including large decapod crustaceans (Baum & Worm 2009, Boudreau & Worm 2010).”
The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “Sharks are apex predators in most marine communities, often playing an important role in controlling community dynamics through top-down regulation of prey (Baum and Worm, 2009).”
Ecological importance of sharks and rays in a structural foodweb analysis in southern Brazil (2014, background): “The effects of changes in one or more components within a foodweb may propagate intensely through the system, resulting in changes in the abundance and web connectivity of other species (Paine, 1969; Soulé et al., 1988; Heithaus et al., 2008; Baum and Worm, 2009; Dunne, 2009).”