The Humboldt current system of northern and central Chile

M Thiel, JC Castilla, M Fernández, S Navarrete - 2007 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Abstract The Humboldt Current System (HCS) is one of the most productive marine
ecosystems on earth. It extends along the west coast of South America from southern Chile …

The Humboldt Current System: Ecosystem components and processes, fisheries, and sediment studies

V Montecino, CB Lange - Progress in Oceanography, 2009 - Elsevier
In the Humboldt Current System (HCS), biological and non-biological components,
ecosystem processes, and fisheries are known to be affected by multi-decadal, inter-annual …

Scales of benthic–pelagic coupling and the intensity of species interactions: from recruitment limitation to top-down control

SA Navarrete, EA Wieters, BR Broitman… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - pnas.org
Large and usually unpredictable variation in species interaction strength has been a major
roadblock to applying local experimental results to large-scale management and …

Mesoscale regulation comes from the bottom‐up: intertidal interactions between consumers and upwelling

KJ Nielsen, SA Navarrete - Ecology Letters, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Theory suggests that variation in resource supply should propagate up trophic
webs influencing plant–herbivore interactions and abundances. Community regulation …

The influence of river discharge on nutrient export and phytoplankton biomass off the central Chile coast (33–37 S): Seasonal cycle and interannual variability

I Masotti, P Aparicio-Rizzo, MA Yevenes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Using in situ hydro-chemical data and MODIS-SeaWiFS ocean color images as a proxy of
river plumes and phytoplankton biomass from 2000 to 2014, this study documents the …

Blue whale habitat selection and within-season distribution in a regional upwelling system off southern Australia

PC Gill, MG Morrice, B Page, R Pirzl… - … ecology progress series, 2011 - int-res.com
Blue whales Balaenoptera musculus aggregate to feed in a regional upwelling system
during November–May between the Great Australian Bight (GAB) and Bass Strait. We …

Exploring the effects of fishing pressure and upwelling intensity over subtidal kelp forest communities in Central Chile

A Pérez‐Matus, SA Carrasco, S Gelcich… - …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the processes that drive kelp forest communities is critical for management
and conservation of these productive ecosystems. As a way to advance in this direction, we …

Climatic variation alters supply‐side ecology: impact of climate patterns on phytoplankton and mussel recruitment

BA Menge, F Chan, KJ Nielsen… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change will modify ecosystems, but a dearth of long‐term data sets on critical
ecological factors makes prediction of mechanistic pathways and scope for ecological …

Latitudinal discontinuity in thermal conditions along the nearshore of central-northern Chile

FJ Tapia, JL Largier, M Castillo, EA Wieters… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Over the past decade, evidence of abrupt latitudinal changes in the dynamics, structure and
genetic variability of intertidal and subtidal benthic communities along central-northern Chile …

Spatial shifts in productivity of the coastal ocean over the past two decades induced by migration of the Pacific Anticyclone and Bakun's effect in the Humboldt …

N Weidberg, A Ospina-Alvarez, J Bonicelli… - Global and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Intensification and poleward expansion of upwelling-favourable winds have been predicted
as a response to anthropogenic global climate change and have recently been documented …