Wasp-waist populations and marine ecosystem dynamics: Navigating the “predator pit” topographies

By A. Bakun. 2006

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. Yoshioki Oozeki
2. H. Kubota
3. A. Takasuka
4. Fiorenza Micheli
5. B. Salihoglu
6. G. Huse
7. R. Brodeur
8. A. Bakun

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Yoshioki Oozeki
2. H. Kubota
3. A. Bakun
4. A. Roos
5. L. Persson
6. A. V. Leeuwen
7. G. Huse
8. S. Kohin

Citations in the corpus

• Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish (2012, background): “Especially in a wasp-waist type ecosystem like the Baltic Sea, where a few forage fish species dominate the intermediate trophic level, changes in abundance or distribution of these species can have large implications for higher trophic levels (Bakun 2006; Smith et al. 2011).”
• A coupled plankton-anchovy population dynamics model assessing nonlinear controls of anchovy and gelatinous biomass in the Black Sea (2008, background): “13 may also be interpreted in terms of the conceptual model of wasp-waist control of small pelagics (Bakun 2006; Fig.”
• Benthic and fish aggregation inside an offshore wind farm: Which effects on the trophic web functioning? (2017, background): “This type of control has generally been demonstrated to be the norm for small plankton-feeding 528 pelagic species, such as anchovies and sardines, in upwelling pelagic ecosystems around the world (Cury et 529 al., 2000, 2004; Coll et al 2006; Bakun, 2006).”
• Extreme reduction in nutritional value of a key forage fish during the Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016 (2019, background): “Much of the energy transferred from lower to higher trophic levels in marine ecosystems passes through a small number of key forage fish species, making forage fish a focal point of bottom-up disruptions in energy transfer (Cury et al. 2000, Bakun 2006, Gaichas et al. 2015).”
• How cod shapes its world (2008, background): “…in cod may negatively affect cod population growth, either because of predation by these planktivores of cod eggs (Köster and Möllmann, 2000; Bakun, 2006; Pepin, 2006) or as a consequence of competition for shared resources between the planktivores and juvenile cod (Sparholt, 1994; Walters…”
• Fronts and eddies as key structures in the habitat of marine fish larvae: opportunity, adaptive response and competitive advantage (2006, background): “This may offer some explanation for the pattern of out-of-phase alternations in abundance of anchovies and sardines that have characterised many of the marine ecosystems that they share (Bakun and Broad, 2003; Bakun, 2006).”
• Guiding ecological principles for marine spatial planning (2010, background): “These basal species can have limited redundancy and one species often dominates an entire trophic level [110].”
• Krill, climate, and contrasting future scenarios for Arctic and Antarctic fisheries (2014, background): “Although there are other ecological pathways in the Southern Ocean, the dependence of so many upper-level vertebrate predators on a single species results in a “wasp-waist ecosystem” where the intermediate trophic level is dominated by a single species (Bakun, 2006).”
• Ecological effects of longline fishing and climate change on the pelagic ecosystem off eastern Australia (2010, background): “…can be seen to be analogous to the highly productive small pelagic fishes that often drive wasp–waist systems in more productive upwelling coastal systems (Cury et al. 2000; Bakun 2006; Shannon et al. 2008), and similarly, appear to be the nexus of energy flows through open ocean pelagic systems.”
• 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.”
• 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): “They may even represent a bottleneck, limiting production at top trophic levels which become closely tied to factors that effect forage fishes (‘‘wasp-waist’’ control; Bakun, 2006; Cury et al., 2000; Rice, 1995).”
• End-To-End Models for the Analysis of Marine Ecosystems: Challenges, Issues, and Next Steps (2010, unknown): “Knowing the relative roles of bottom-up, top-down, and wasp-waist controls (Cury et al. 2000; Frank et al. 2005; Bakun 2006; Field et al. 2006)—and how they operate simultaneously and vary in time and space—is vital for making accurate projections of the responses of ecosystems to changing…”