Physical forcing and the dynamics of the pelagic ecosystem in the eastern tropical Pacific: simulations with ENSO-scale and global-warming climate drivers

By G. Watters, R. Olson, R. Francis, Paul C. Fiedler, J. Polovina, S. Reilly, K. Aydin, C. Boggs, T. Essington, Carl J Walters and 1 more. 2003

100 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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In Ecology

1. B. Popp
2. I. Senina
3. Marta Coll
4. R. Olson
5. A. Lorrain
6. Frederic Menard
7. Villy Christensen
8. Daniel P. Costa

In Global and Planetary Change

1. B. Popp
2. Marta Coll
3. I. Senina
4. Villy Christensen
5. R. Olson
6. Raghu Murtugudde
7. P. Lehodey
8. R. Watson

In Oceanography

1. C. Choy
2. B. Popp
3. A. Hobday
4. J. Llopiz
5. Marta Coll
6. R. Olson
7. J. Forcada
8. Elizabeth A. Fulton

Citations in the corpus

• Visualizing the Food-Web Effects of Fishing for Tunas in the Pacific Ocean (2004, background): “Specifically, the ability to identify the effects of fishing, particularly at lower trophic levels, will almost certainly depend on the strength and frequency of bottom-up forcing that the food web experiences (Watters et al. 2003).”
• The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “The lack of knowledge on the trophodynamics of the micronekton is a continued impediment to fully understanding the role of this group in pelagic food webs, and their response to both bottom-up and top-down forcing (Olson and Watters 2003; Watters et al. 2003).”
• A spatial ecosystem and populations dynamics model (SEAPODYM) – Modeling of tuna and tuna-like populations (2008, methodology): “For tuna and pelagic ecosystem in the Pacific Ocean, such comparative analyses can include the statistical stock assessment models MULTIFAN-CL (Hampton and Fournier, 2001) and A-SCALA (Maunder and Watters, 2003), the ecotrophic model ECOPATH (Cox et al., 2002; Kitchell et al., 2002; Watters et al., ”
• Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean (2010, background): “The ecological effects of climate variability and fishing both transmit through the food web (Watters et al., 2003).”
• Assessing the trophic position and ecological role of squids in marine ecosystems by means of food-web models (2013, methodology): “Simulation 3: increase of fishing effort for all fisheries (2-fold for the NWM model and 10-fold for the ETP model) and a 2- fold increase in primary production.”
• Effects of climate‐driven primary production change on marine food webs: implications for fisheries and conservation (2010, methodology): “This may be due to either the longer time-scale of our analysis than that of Watters et al. (2003), who looked at 1 year pulses in primary production, or it may be that this trend does not generally occur across a broad range of models or ecosystems, particularly those with the lower productivity…”
• Non-recovery of two spotted and spinner dolphin populations in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (2005, background): “Modeling of the ETP ecosystem (Watters et al. 2003) may provide some insights about the effects of interspecific interactions as well as environmental change on recovery.”
• Environmental variability and fisheries: what can models do? (2008, methodology): “…models (ANN, Chen and Ware 1999; Huse and Ottersen 2003), a double logistic model to describe probability of spawning (Lluch-Cota et al. 2001a), sinusoidal models (Klyashtorin 1998, 2001), a timeseries model (Scheuerell and Williams 2005) and EwE models (Watters et al. 2003; Shannon et al. 2004).”
• Decadal diet shift in yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares suggests broad-scale food web changes in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (2014, methodology): “This analysis is an essential component for developing improved food web models (e.g. Cox et al. 2002, Olson & Watters 2003) for examining hypotheses of ecosystem effects of fishing over a backdrop of climate variation (Watters et al. 2003).”
• Impact of El Nino on the foraging behavior of female northern elephant seals (2006, methodology): “Simulations of biomass trajectories from bottom-up pulses from ENSO cycles have suggested significant lag times as effects move up trophic levels and that pelagic marine mammals should be minimally affected (Watters et al. 2003).”
• Feeding Partitioning among Tuna Taken in Surface and Mid-water Layers: The Case of Yellowfin ( Thunnus albacares ) and Bigeye ( T. obesus ) in the Western Tropical Indian Ocean (2004, methodology): “The ecological role of apex predators in marine food webs is of interest because it is a critical in the assessment of the effects of fishing on ecosystems (Essington et al, 2002; Schindler et al., 2002; Cox et al., 2002; Watters et al., 2003).”