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Hochfeld, Isabell, and Jana Hinners. "Phytoplankton adaptation to steady or changing environments affects marine ecosystem functioning." Biogeosciences 21, no. 23 (2024): 5591–611. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-21-5591-2024.

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Abstract. Global warming poses a major threat to marine ecosystems, which fulfill important functions for humans and the climate. Ecosystem models are therefore increasingly used to estimate future changes in the functioning of marine ecosystems. However, projections differ notably between models. We propose that a major uncertainty factor in current models is that they ignore the high adaptive potential of phytoplankton, key players in marine ecosystems. Here, we use a zero-dimensional evolutionary ecosystem model to study how phytoplankton adaptation can affect estimates of future ecosystem-

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Beaugrand, G., M. Edwards, and L. Legendre. "Marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and carbon cycles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 22 (2010): 10120–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0913855107.

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Küpper, Review Frithjof C., and Nicholas A. Kamenos. "The future of marine biodiversity and marine ecosystem functioning in UK coastal and territorial waters (including UK Overseas Territories) - with an emphasis on marine macrophyte communities." Botanica Marina 61, no. 6 (2018): 521–35. https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2018-0076.

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Küpper, Review Frithjof C., Kamenos, Nicholas A. (2018): The future of marine biodiversity and marine ecosystem functioning in UK coastal and territorial waters (including UK Overseas Territories) - with an emphasis on marine macrophyte communities. Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) 61 (6): 521-535, DOI: 10.1515/bot-2018-0076, URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/bot-2018-0076

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Maureaud, Aurore, Dorothee Hodapp, P. Daniël van Denderen, et al. "Biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships in fish communities: biomass is related to evenness and the environment, not to species richness." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1906 (2019): 20191189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1189.

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The relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) is a topic of considerable interest to scientists and managers because a better understanding of its underlying mechanisms may help us mitigate the consequences of biodiversity loss on ecosystems. Our current knowledge of BEF relies heavily on theoretical and experimental studies, typically conducted on a narrow range of spatio-temporal scales, environmental conditions, and trophic levels. Hence, whether a relationship holds in the natural environment is poorly understood, especially in exploited marine ecosystems. Using lar

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Lindegren, Martin, David M. Checkley, Mark D. Ohman, J. Anthony Koslow, and Ralf Goericke. "Resilience and stability of a pelagic marine ecosystem." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1822 (2016): 20151931. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1931.

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The accelerating loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services worldwide has accentuated a long-standing debate on the role of diversity in stabilizing ecological communities and has given rise to a field of research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF). Although broad consensus has been reached regarding the positive BEF relationship, a number of important challenges remain unanswered. These primarily concern the underlying mechanisms by which diversity increases resilience and community stability, particularly the relative importance of statistical averaging and functional complemen

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Hillebrand, Helmut, Ute Jacob, and Heather M. Leslie. "Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 375, no. 1814 (2020): 20190444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0444.

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Whereas the conservation and management of biodiversity has become a key issue in environmental sciences and policy in general, the conservation of marine biodiversity faces additional challenges such as the challenges of accessing field sites (e.g. polar, deep sea), knowledge gaps regarding biodiversity trends, high mobility of many organisms in fluid environments, and ecosystem-specific obstacles to stakeholder engagement and governance. This issue comprises contributions from a diverse international group of scientists in a benchmarking volume for a common research agenda on marine conserva

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Bundy, Alida, Lynne J. Shannon, Marie-Joëlle Rochet, et al. "The good(ish), the bad, and the ugly: a tripartite classification of ecosystem trends." ICES Journal of Marine Science 67, no. 4 (2010): 745–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp283.

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Abstract Bundy, A., Shannon, L. J., Rochet, M-J., Neira, S., Shin, Y-J., Hill, L., and Aydin, K. 2010. The good(ish), the bad, and the ugly: a tripartite classification of ecosystem trends. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 745–768. Marine ecosystems have been exploited for a long time, growing increasingly vulnerable to collapse and irreversible change. How do we know when an ecosystem may be in danger? A measure of the status of individual stocks is only a partial gauge of its status, and does not include changes at the broader ecosystem level, to non-commercial species or to its structu

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Harmelin–Vivien, M. L., D. Bǎnaru, J. Dierking, R. Hermand, Y. Letourneur, and C. Salen-Picard. "Linking benthic biodiversity to the functioning of coastal ecosystems subjected to river runoff (NW Mediterranean)." Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 32, no. 2 (2009): 135–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.32800/abc.2009.32.0135.

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Continental particulate organic matter (POM) plays a major role in the functioning of coastal marine ecosystems as a disturbance as well as an input of nutrients. Relationships linking continental inputs from the Rhone River to biodiversity of the coastal benthic ecosystem and fishery production were investigated in the Golfe du Lion (NW Mediterranean Sea). Macrobenthic community diversity decreased when continen¬tal inputs of organic matter increased, whereas ecosystem production, measured by common sole (Solea solea) fishery yields in the area, increased. Decreases in macrobenthic diversity

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Johnston, Emma L., Mariana Mayer-Pinto, and Tasman P. Crowe. "REVIEW: Chemical contaminant effects on marine ecosystem functioning." Journal of Applied Ecology 52, no. 1 (2014): 140–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12355.

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Bulling, Mark T., Natalie Hicks, Leigh Murray, et al. "Marine biodiversity–ecosystem functions under uncertain environmental futures." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 365, no. 1549 (2010): 2107–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0022.

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Anthropogenic activity is currently leading to dramatic transformations of ecosystems and losses of biodiversity. The recognition that these ecosystems provide services that are essential for human well-being has led to a major interest in the forms of the biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationship. However, there is a lack of studies examining the impact of climate change on these relationships and it remains unclear how multiple climatic drivers may affect levels of ecosystem functioning. Here, we examine the roles of two important climate change variables, temperature and concentration

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Bento, Marta, Henrique Niza, Alexandra Cartaxana, and Correia Alexandra Marçal. "Marine collections and global digital repositories as source data to assess the effects of habitat condition and biodiversity loss on African Coastal ecosystem functioning and services." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (June 18, 2019): e35077. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.35077.

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Natural history collections (NHC) worldwide contain vast amount of valuable data that can be used to answer a wide range of questions by exploring biodiversity and natural resources records, having an immense potential to contribute to science, policy making and legislating, and to public scientific awareness. Likewise, the development and increase of global and regional biodiversity digital databases (e.g., Global Biodiversity Information Facility - GBIF; Fauna Europaea; Naturdata, etc.), scientific literature and all digital information regarding biodiversity, ecological areas and climate re

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Pascal, Ludovic, Antoine Grémare, Xavier Montaudouin, Bruno Deflandre, Alicia Romero‐Ramirez, and Olivier Maire. "Parasitism in ecosystem engineer species: A key factor controlling marine ecosystem functioning." Journal of Animal Ecology 89, no. 9 (2020): 2192–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13236.

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de Moura Queirós, Ana, Jan Geert Hiddink, Gareth Johnson, Henrique Nogueira Cabral, and Michel Joseph Kaiser. "Context dependence of marine ecosystem engineer invasion impacts on benthic ecosystem functioning." Biological Invasions 13, no. 5 (2011): 1059–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-011-9948-3.

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Zhang, Y., and Brian Silliman. "A Facilitation Cascade Enhances Local Biodiversity in Seagrass Beds." Diversity 11, no. 3 (2019): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d11030030.

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Invertebrate diversity can be a key driver of ecosystem functioning, yet understanding what factors influence local biodiversity remains uncertain. In many marine and terrestrial systems, facilitation cascades where primary foundation and/or autogenic ecosystem engineering species promote the settlement and survival of a secondary foundation/engineering species have been shown to enhance local biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. We experimentally tested if a facilitation cascade occurs among eelgrass (Zostera marina), pen clams (Atrina rigida), and community diversity in temperate seagrass

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Gascuel, Didier, Lyne Morissette, Maria Lourdes D. Palomares, and Villy Christensen. "Trophic flow kinetics in marine ecosystems: Toward a theoretical approach to ecosystem functioning." Ecological Modelling 217, no. 1-2 (2008): 33–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.05.012.

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Zhang, Yixin, Junjiro N. Negishi, John S. Richardson, and Renata Kolodziejczyk. "Impacts of marine-derived nutrients on stream ecosystem functioning." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 270, no. 1529 (2003): 2117–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2003.2478.

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Gascuel, Didier, and Daniel Pauly. "EcoTroph: Modelling marine ecosystem functioning and impact of fishing." Ecological Modelling 220, no. 21 (2009): 2885–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.07.031.

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Boero, Ferdinando, and Erik Bonsdorff. "A conceptual framework for marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning." Marine Ecology 28 (September 10, 2007): 134–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2007.00171.x.

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Rizzo, Lucia, and Tomás Vega Fernández. "Can the Invasive Seaweed Caulerpa cylidracea Represent a New Trophic Resource in the Mediterranean Sea?" Water 15, no. 11 (2023): 2115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w15112115.

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Non-indigenous species (NIS) represent one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, altering invaded habitats, competing with native species, and eventually becoming pests. The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hotspot, with its coasts being densely populated and its living resources fished since ancient times. As a result of such a long history of exploitation, the whole basin is exposed to a wide array of human pressures, with their combined effects on marine ecosystems being amplified by ongoing climate change. Caulerpa cylindracea Sonder, 1845, is a non-i

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Ashford, Oliver S., Shuzhe Guan, Dante Capone, et al. "Relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning proxies strengthen when approaching chemosynthetic deep-sea methane seeps." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 288, no. 1957 (2021): 20210950. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0950.

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As biodiversity loss accelerates globally, understanding environmental influence over biodiversity–ecosystem functioning (BEF) relationships becomes crucial for ecosystem management. Theory suggests that resource supply affects the shape of BEF relationships, but this awaits detailed investigation in marine ecosystems. Here, we use deep-sea chemosynthetic methane seeps and surrounding sediments as natural laboratories in which to contrast relationships between BEF proxies along with a gradient of trophic resource availability (higher resource methane seep, to lower resource photosynthetically

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Tam, Jamie C., Jason S. Link, Axel G. Rossberg, et al. "Towards ecosystem-based management: identifying operational food-web indicators for marine ecosystems." ICES Journal of Marine Science 74, no. 7 (2017): 2040–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsw230.

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Abstract Modern approaches to Ecosystem-Based Management and sustainable use of marine resources must account for the myriad of pressures (interspecies, human and environmental) affecting marine ecosystems. The network of feeding interactions between co-existing species and populations (food webs) are an important aspect of all marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Here we describe and discuss a process to evaluate the selection of operational food-web indicators for use in evaluating marine ecosystem status. This process brought together experts in food-web ecology, marine ecology, and resource

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Frainer, André, Raul Primicerio, Susanne Kortsch, et al. "Climate-driven changes in functional biogeography of Arctic marine fish communities." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 46 (2017): 12202–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706080114.

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Climate change triggers poleward shifts in species distribution leading to changes in biogeography. In the marine environment, fish respond quickly to warming, causing community-wide reorganizations, which result in profound changes in ecosystem functioning. Functional biogeography provides a framework to address how ecosystem functioning may be affected by climate change over large spatial scales. However, there are few studies on functional biogeography in the marine environment, and none in the Arctic, where climate-driven changes are most rapid and extensive. We investigated the impact of

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Altieri, Andrew H., Geoffrey C. Trussell, Patrick J. Ewanchuk, Genevieve Bernatchez, and Matthew E. S. Bracken. "Consumers Control Diversity and Functioning of a Natural Marine Ecosystem." PLoS ONE 4, no. 4 (2009): e5291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0005291.

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Gamfeldt, Lars, Jonathan S. Lefcheck, Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Bradley J. Cardinale, J. Emmett Duffy, and John N. Griffin. "Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: what's known and what's next?" Oikos 124, no. 3 (2014): 252–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.01549.

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Cheng, Brian S., Andrew H. Altieri, Mark E. Torchin, and Gregory M. Ruiz. "Can marine reserves restore lost ecosystem functioning? A global synthesis." Ecology 100, no. 4 (2019): e02617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2617.

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Biles, C. L., D. M. Paterson, R. B. Ford, M. Solan, and D. G. Raffaelli. "Bioturbation, ecosystem functioning and community structure." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 6, no. 6 (2002): 999–1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-6-999-2002.

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Abstract. The effect of community structure on the functioning of the ecosystem is an important issue in ecology due to continuing global species loss. The influence of infaunal community structure on the functioning of marine systems is proposed here to act primarily through bioturbation of the sediment. Nutrient concentration in the water column, generated by release from the sediment, was used as a measure of ecosystem functioning. In situ and laboratory experiments showed a significant difference in nutrient concentrations with different species treatments. Bioturbation profiles showing th

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Gascuel, Didier, Sylvie Guénette, and Daniel Pauly. "The trophic-level-based ecosystem modelling approach: theoretical overview and practical uses." ICES Journal of Marine Science 68, no. 7 (2011): 1403–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsr062.

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Abstract Gascuel, D., Guénette, S., and Pauly, D. 2011. The trophic-level-based ecosystem modelling approach: theoretical overview and practical uses. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1403–1416. A trophic-level (TL)-based ecosystem modelling approach is presented, where ecosystem functioning is modelled as a flow of biomass up the foodweb through predation and ontogenetic processes. The approach, based on simple equations derived from fluid dynamics, provides insights into ecosystem functioning and the impact of fishing. A virtual ecosystem is simulated and the model shown to be capable o

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Gasche, Loïc, and Didier Gascuel. "EcoTroph: a simple model to assess fishery interactions and their impacts on ecosystems." ICES Journal of Marine Science 70, no. 3 (2013): 498–510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst016.

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Abstract Gasche, L., and Gascuel, D. 2013. EcoTroph: a simple model to assess fishery interactions and their impacts on ecosystems – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70: 498–510. The EcoTroph model leaves aside the notion of species, and models the functioning of marine ecosystems as flows of biomass from low to high trophic levels, so as to quantify easily the impacts of fishing at an ecosystem scale. In this paper, based on two case studies we present a new development of the EcoTroph model that is devoted to the analysis of fishery interactions and impacts of fleet segments on ecosystems. Fi

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Westphal, Hildegard, Gary N. Murphy, Steve S. Doo, et al. "Ecosystem design as an avenue for improving services provided by carbonate producing marine ecosystems." PeerJ 10 (January 20, 2022): e12785. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12785.

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Ecosystem Design (ED) is an approach for constructing habitats that places human needs for ecosystem services at the center of intervention, with the overarching goal of establishing self-sustaining habitats which require limited management. This concept was originally developed for use in mangrove ecosystems, and is understandably controversial, as it markedly diverges from other protection approaches that assign human use a minor priority or exclude it. However, the advantage of ED lies within the considered implementation of these designed ecosystems, thus preserving human benefits from pot

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Pancucci-Papadopoulou, Maria Antonietta, Dionysios E. Raitsos, and Maria Corsini-Foka. "Biological invasions and climatic warming: implications for south-eastern Aegean ecosystem functioning." Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 92, no. 4 (2011): 777–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025315411000981.

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The Aegean Sea, due to the complexity and variety of morphological features, bathymetry, hydrological, hydrodynamic features and climatic characteristics, offers a unique opportunity for monitoring the spreading and/or invasion of alien biota. It is known that the establishment of warm/tropical marine alien species is related mainly to the increase in sea temperature. A significant increase in aliens' number along the southern Aegean (Dodecanese) coasts has been documented in the last twenty years, while their arrival has produced evident changes in coastal ecosystem composition and function.

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Küpper, Frithjof C., and Nicholas A. Kamenos. "The future of marine biodiversity and marine ecosystem functioning in UK coastal and territorial waters (including UK Overseas Territories) – with an emphasis on marine macrophyte communities." Botanica Marina 61, no. 6 (2018): 521–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bot-2018-0076.

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Abstract Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning – including seaweed communities – in the territorial waters of the UK and its Overseas Territories are facing unprecedented pressures. Key stressors are changes in ecosystem functioning due to biodiversity loss caused by ocean warming (species replacement and migration, e.g. affecting kelp forests), sea level rise (e.g. loss of habitats including salt marshes), plastic pollution (e.g. entanglement and ingestion), alien species with increasing numbers of alien seaweeds (e.g. outcompeting native species and parasite transmission), overexploi

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Leslie, Heather M., and Megan Palmer. "Examining the Impacts of Tidal Energy Capture from an Ecosystem Services Perspective." Marine Technology Society Journal 49, no. 1 (2015): 97–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.49.1.6.

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AbstractAs governments from the local to national level have recognized the need to integrate renewable sources into their energy portfolios, there has been a recent push to harness diverse sources of ocean energy, including those generated by tides and waves. Despite the potential benefits, development of these marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) resources has raised concerns in terms of their potential socioeconomic and environmental impacts. An ecosystem services perspective offers a useful means of monitoring how MHKs will affect both people and nature by enabling the identification of the benef

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Kolding, Jeppe, Alida Bundy, Paul A. M. van Zwieten, and Michael J. Plank. "Fisheries, the inverted food pyramid." ICES Journal of Marine Science 73, no. 6 (2015): 1697–713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv225.

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Abstract A global assessment of fishing patterns and fishing pressure from 110 different Ecopath models, representing marine ecosystems throughout the world and covering the period 1970–2007, show that human exploitation across trophic levels (TLs) is highly unbalanced and skewed towards low productive species at high TLs, which are around two TLs higher than the animal protein we get from terrestrial farming. Overall, exploitation levels from low trophic species were &lt;15% of production, and only 18% of the total number of exploited groups and species were harvested &gt;40% of their

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Moyo, Ropafadzo, Deena Pillay, and J. Antonio Baeza. "Symbiont-mediated shifts in sandprawn behaviour: Implications for ecosystem functioning in marine soft-sediment ecosystems." Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 486 (January 2017): 296–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2016.10.022.

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Liu, Jiwen, Zhe Meng, Xiaoyue Liu, and Xiao-Hua Zhang. "Microbial assembly, interaction, functioning, activity and diversification: a review derived from community compositional data." Marine Life Science & Technology 1, no. 1 (2019): 112–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42995-019-00004-3.

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Abstract Microorganisms play crucial roles in maintaining ecosystem stability. The last two decades have witnessed an upsurge in studies on marine microbial community composition using high-throughput sequencing methods. Extensive mining of the compositional data has provided exciting new insights into marine microbial ecology from a number of perspectives. Both deterministic and stochastic processes contribute to microbial community assembly but their relative importance in structuring subcommunities, that are categorized by traits such as abundance, functional type and activity, differs. Thr

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Beaugrand, Gregory. "Theoretical basis for predicting climate-induced abrupt shifts in the oceans." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 370, no. 1659 (2015): 20130264. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0264.

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Among the responses of marine species and their ecosystems to climate change, abrupt community shifts (ACSs), also called regime shifts, have often been observed. However, despite their effects for ecosystem functioning and both provisioning and regulating services, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms involved remains elusive. This paper proposes a theory showing that some ACSs originate from the interaction between climate-induced environmental changes and the species ecological niche. The theory predicts that a substantial stepwise shift in the thermal regime of a marine ecosystem

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Govers, Laura L., Willem A. Man in ‘t Veld, Johan P. Meffert, et al. "Marine Phytophthora species can hamper conservation and restoration of vegetated coastal ecosystems." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1837 (2016): 20160812. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0812.

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Phytophthora species are potent pathogens that can devastate terrestrial plants, causing billions of dollars of damage yearly to agricultural crops and harming fragile ecosystems worldwide. Yet, virtually nothing is known about the distribution and pathogenicity of their marine relatives. This is surprising, as marine plants form vital habitats in coastal zones worldwide (i.e. mangrove forests, salt marshes, seagrass beds), and disease may be an important bottleneck for the conservation and restoration of these rapidly declining ecosystems. We are the first to report on widespread infection of

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Lassalle, Géraldine, Jérémy Lobry, François Le Loc'h, et al. "Ecosystem status and functioning: searching for rules of thumb using an intersite comparison of food-web models of Northeast Atlantic continental shelves." ICES Journal of Marine Science 70, no. 1 (2012): 135–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fss168.

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Abstract Lassalle, G., Lobry, J., Le Loc'h, F., Mackinson, S., Sanchez, F., Tomczak, M. T., and Niquil, N. 2013. Ecosystem status and functioning: searching for rules of thumb using an intersite comparison of food-web models of Northeast Atlantic continental shelves. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 70:135–149. This work aimed to provide a better understanding of how the structure and function of marine ecosystems and trophic control mechanisms influence their response to perturbations. Comparative analysis of Ecopath models of four Northeast Atlantic ecosystems was used to search for rules o

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Green, Dannielle Senga, Bas Boots, David James Blockley, Carlos Rocha, and Richard Thompson. "Impacts of Discarded Plastic Bags on Marine Assemblages and Ecosystem Functioning." Environmental Science & Technology 49, no. 9 (2015): 5380–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5b00277.

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Zhao, Li-Xia, Chi Xu, Zhen-Ming Ge, Johan van de Koppel, and Quan-Xing Liu. "The shaping role of self-organization: linking vegetation patterning, plant traits and ecosystem functioning." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, no. 1900 (2019): 20182859. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2859.

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Self-organized spatial patterns are increasingly recognized for their contribution to ecosystem functioning, in terms of enhanced productivity, ecosystem stability, and species diversity in terrestrial as well as marine ecosystems. Most studies on the impact of spatial self-organization have focused on systems that exhibit regular patterns. However, there is an abundance of patterns in many ecosystems which are not strictly regular. Understanding of how these patterns are formed and how they affect ecosystem function is crucial for the broad acceptance of self-organization as a keystone proces

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Beaugrand, Grégory, Eric Goberville, Christophe Luczak, and Richard R. Kirby. "Marine biological shifts and climate." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281, no. 1783 (2014): 20133350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.3350.

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Phenological, biogeographic and community shifts are among the reported responses of marine ecosystems and their species to climate change. However, despite both the profound consequences for ecosystem functioning and services, our understanding of the root causes underlying these biological changes remains rudimentary. Here, we show that a significant proportion of the responses of species and communities to climate change are deterministic at some emergent spatio-temporal scales, enabling testable predictions and more accurate projections of future changes. We propose a theory based on the c

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Darnaude, Audrey, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Ewan Hunter, et al. "Unifying approaches to Functional Marine Connectivity for improved marine resource management: the European SEA-UNICORN COST Action." Research Ideas and Outcomes 8 (December 22, 2022): e98874. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e98874.

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Truly sustainable development in a human-altered, fragmented marine environment subject to unprecedented climate change, demands informed planning strategies in order to be successful. Beyond a simple understanding of the distribution of marine species, data describing how variations in spatio-temporal dynamics impact ecosystem functioning and the evolution of species are required. Marine Functional Connectivity (MFC) characterizes the flows of matter, genes and energy produced by organism movements and migrations across the seascape. As such, MFC determines the ecological and evolutionary int

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Darnaude, Audrey, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Ewan Hunter, et al. "Unifying approaches to Functional Marine Connectivity for improved marine resource management: the European SEA-UNICORN COST Action." Research Ideas and Outcomes 8 (February 22, 2022): e80223. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e80223.

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Truly sustainable development in a human-altered, fragmented marine environment subject to unprecedented climate change, demands informed planning strategies in order to be successful. Beyond a simple understanding of the distribution of marine species, data describing how variations in spatio-temporal dynamics impact ecosystem functioning and the evolution of species are required. Marine Functional Connectivity (MFC) characterizes the flows of matter, genes and energy produced by organism movements and migrations across the seascape. As such, MFC determines the ecological and evolutionary int

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Semprucci, Federica, and Roberto Sandulli. "Editorial for Special Issue “Meiofauna Biodiversity and Ecology”." Diversity 12, no. 6 (2020): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d12060249.

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Meiofauna are a component of aquatic environments from polar to tropical regions. They may colonize all types of habitats and include very enigmatic and exclusive taxa. The biodiversity of this component in marine ecosystems is far from being accurately estimated, but this would be a new challenge given the importance that meiofaunal components may play in marine ecosystem functioning and processes. This Special Issue collects many interesting topics in research on meiofauna contributing to plugging a gap on several key issues in their biodiversity, distribution, and ecology, from numerous reg

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Prowe, A. E. F., M. Pahlow, S. Dutkiewicz, and A. Oschlies. "Small diversity effects on ocean primary production under environmental change in a diversity-resolving ocean ecosystem model." Biogeosciences Discussions 10, no. 7 (2013): 12571–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bgd-10-12571-2013.

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Abstract. Marine ecosystem models used to investigate how global change affects ocean ecosystems and their functioning typically omit pelagic diversity. Diversity, however, can affect functions such as primary production and their sensitivity to environmental changes. Using a global ocean ecosystem model that explicitly resolves phytoplankton diversity within four phytoplankton functional types (PFTs) we investigate the model's ability to capture diversity effects on primary production under environmental change. An idealized scenario with a sudden reduction in vertical mixing causes diversity

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Solan, Martin, Ellie R. Ward, Christina L. Wood, Adam J. Reed, Laura J. Grange, and Jasmin A. Godbold. "Climate-driven benthic invertebrate activity and biogeochemical functioning across the Barents Sea polar front." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378, no. 2181 (2020): 20190365. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2019.0365.

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Arctic marine ecosystems are undergoing rapid correction in response to multiple expressions of climate change, but the consequences of altered biodiversity for the sequestration, transformation and storage of nutrients are poorly constrained. Here, we determine the bioturbation activity of sediment-dwelling invertebrate communities over two consecutive summers that contrasted in sea-ice extent along a transect intersecting the polar front. We find a clear separation in community composition at the polar front that marks a transition in the type and amount of bioturbation activity, and associa

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Cavanagh, Rachel D., Stefanie Broszeit, Graham M. Pilling, Susie M. Grant, Eugene J. Murphy, and Melanie C. Austen. "Valuing biodiversity and ecosystem services: a useful way to manage and conserve marine resources?" Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283, no. 1844 (2016): 20161635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1635.

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Valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) is widely recognized as a useful, though often controversial, approach to conservation and management. However, its use in the marine environment, hence evidence of its efficacy, lags behind that in terrestrial ecosystems. This largely reflects key challenges to marine conservation and management such as the practical difficulties in studying the ocean, complex governance issues and the historically-rooted separation of biodiversity conservation and resource management. Given these challenges together with the accelerating loss of marine bi

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de Luzinais, Vianney Guibourd, Didier Gascuel, Gabriel Reygondeau, and William W. L. Cheung. "Large potential impacts of marine heatwaves on ecosystem functioning." Global Change Biology 30, no. 7 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17437.

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AbstractOcean warming is driving significant changes in the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems, shifting species' biogeography and phenology, changing body size and biomass and altering the trophodynamics of the system. Particularly, extreme temperature events such as marine heatwaves (MHWs) have been increasing in intensity, duration and frequency. MHWs are causing large‐scale impacts on marine ecosystems, such as coral bleaching, mass mortality of seagrass meadows and declines in fish stocks and other marine organisms in recent decades. In this study, we developed and applied a d

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Montoya, Daniel, Eugenio Rastelli, Raffaella Casotti, et al. "Microplastics alter the functioning of marine microbial ecosystems." Ecology and Evolution 14, no. 11 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70041.

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AbstractMicroplastics pervade ocean ecosystems. Despite their effects on individuals or populations are well documented, the consequences of microplastics on ecosystem functioning are still largely unknown. Here, we show how microplastics alter the structure and functioning of pelagic microbial ecosystems. Using experimental pelagic mesocosms, we found that microplastics indirectly affect marine productivity by changing the bacterial and phytoplankton assemblages. Specifically, the addition of microplastics increased phytoplankton biomass and shifted bacterial assemblages' composition. Such ch

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L, Basconi. "First Evidence of Spatial Relationships between Ecosystem Functioning and Services in the marine environment." Journal of Ecology & Natural Resources 7, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.23880/jenr-16000321.

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The complexity of the marine system and the rate of anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem functioning demand a synthetic conceptual framework to organize the scientific knowledge needed to better conserve Nature and maintain ecosystem services supply. Currently, the most used conceptual framework is the cascade model that describe a tight positive link among biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and services. The present study explores the spatial relationship between ecosystem functioning and services discussing its heterogeneity. It warns the next generation of researchers on ecosystem services t

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