Despite the importance of consumers in structuring communities, and the widespread
assumption that consumption is strongest at low latitudes, empirical tests for global scale …

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 …

Pervasive overharvesting of consumers and anthropogenic nutrient loading are changing
the strengths of top‐down and bottom‐up forces in ecosystems worldwide. Thus, identifying …

Reflecting the increasing interest in the field and its relevance in global environmental
issues, Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review provides authoritative …

Benthic–pelagic coupling and the role of bottom-up versus top-down processes are
recognized as having a major impact on the community structure of intertidal and shallow …

Aim Global climate change has profound and diverse effects on biological diversity.
Identifying present‐day climate refugia is an increasingly recognized strategy for the …

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 …

Ecosystems are shaped by processes occurring and interacting over multiple temporal and
spatial scales. Theory suggests such complexity can be simplified by focusing on processes …

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 …

A model is developed to explore the potential responses of paleocommunities to disruptions
of primary production during times of mass extinction and ecological crisis. Disruptions of …