Refocusing multiple stressor research around the targets and scales of ecological impacts

BI Simmons, PSA Blyth, JL Blanchard… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Ecological communities face a variety of environmental and anthropogenic stressors acting
simultaneously. Stressor impacts can combine additively or can interact, causing synergistic …

From bacteria to whales: using functional size spectra to model marine ecosystems

JL Blanchard, RF Heneghan, JD Everett… - Trends in ecology & …, 2017‏ - cell.com
Size-based ecosystem modeling is emerging as a powerful way to assess ecosystem-level
impacts of human-and environment-driven changes from individual-level processes. These …

Climate-driven zooplankton shifts cause large-scale declines in food quality for fish

RF Heneghan, JD Everett, JL Blanchard… - Nature Climate …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Zooplankton are the primary energy pathway from phytoplankton to fish. Yet, there is limited
understanding about how climate change will modify zooplankton communities and the …

Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change

HK Lotze, DP Tittensor, A Bryndum-Buchholz… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
While the physical dimensions of climate change are now routinely assessed through
multimodel intercomparisons, projected impacts on the global ocean ecosystem generally …

Vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to a loss of structural complexity

A Rogers, JL Blanchard, PJ Mumby - Current Biology, 2014‏ - cell.com
Coral reefs face a diverse array of threats, from eutrophication and overfishing to climate
change. As live corals are lost and their skeletons eroded, the structural complexity of reefs …

Can marine fisheries and aquaculture meet fish demand from a growing human population in a changing climate?

G Merino, M Barange, JL Blanchard, J Harle… - Global Environmental …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Expansion in the world's human population and economic development will increase future
demand for fish products. As global fisheries yield is constrained by ecosystems productivity …

Potential consequences of climate change for primary production and fish production in large marine ecosystems

JL Blanchard, S Jennings… - … of the Royal …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Existing methods to predict the effects of climate change on the biomass and production of
marine communities are predicated on modelling the interactions and dynamics of individual …

Climate vulnerability and resilience in the most valuable North American fishery

A Le Bris, KE Mills, RA Wahle, Y Chen… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
Managing natural resources in an era of increasing climate impacts requires accounting for
the synergistic effects of climate, ecosystem changes, and harvesting on resource …

Uncovering trophic positions and food resources of soil animals using bulk natural stable isotope composition

AM Potapov, AV Tiunov, S Scheu - Biological Reviews, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite the major importance of soil biota in nutrient and energy fluxes, interactions in soil
food webs are poorly understood. Here we provide an overview of recent advances in …

Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life

R Trebilco, JK Baum, AK Salomon, NK Dulvy - Trends in ecology & …, 2013‏ - cell.com
Biomass distribution and energy flow in ecosystems are traditionally described with trophic
pyramids, and increasingly with size spectra, particularly in aquatic ecosystems. Here, we …