Energy Flow Through Marine Ecosystems: Confronting Transfer Efficiency.

climate change energy transfer fishing impacts food web trophic ecology trophic efficiency

Journal

Trends in ecology & evolution
ISSN: 1872-8383
Titre abrégé: Trends Ecol Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 8805125

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 2021
Historique:
received: 17 02 2020
revised: 18 08 2020
accepted: 24 09 2020
pubmed: 25 10 2020
medline: 23 2 2021
entrez: 24 10 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Transfer efficiency is the proportion of energy passed between nodes in food webs. It is an emergent, unitless property that is difficult to measure, and responds dynamically to environmental and ecosystem changes. Because the consequences of changes in transfer efficiency compound through ecosystems, slight variations can have large effects on food availability for top predators. Here, we review the processes controlling transfer efficiency, approaches to estimate it, and known variations across ocean biomes. Both process-level analysis and observed macroscale variations suggest that ecosystem-scale transfer efficiency is highly variable, impacted by fishing, and will decline with climate change. It is important that we more fully resolve the processes controlling transfer efficiency in models to effectively anticipate changes in marine ecosystems and fisheries resources.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33097289
pii: S0169-5347(20)30257-3
doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.09.006
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Review

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

76-86

Informations de copyright

Crown Copyright © 2020. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Tyler D Eddy (TD)

Nippon Foundation Nereus Program, Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research, Fisheries and Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada. Electronic address: tyler.eddy@mi.mun.ca.

Joey R Bernhardt (JR)

Nippon Foundation Nereus Program and Changing Ocean Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Julia L Blanchard (JL)

Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

William W L Cheung (WWL)

Nippon Foundation Nereus Program and Changing Ocean Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Mathieu Colléter (M)

BLOOM Association, Paris, France.

Hubert du Pontavice (H)

Nippon Foundation Nereus Program and Changing Ocean Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; ESE, Ecology and Ecosystem Health, Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France.

Elizabeth A Fulton (EA)

Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

Didier Gascuel (D)

ESE, Ecology and Ecosystem Health, Agrocampus Ouest, Rennes, France.

Kelly A Kearney (KA)

Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Oceans (JISAO), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.

Colleen M Petrik (CM)

Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA.

Tilla Roy (T)

Ecoceana, Ecosystem, Climate, and Ocean Analysis, Paris, France; Department of Geosciences, L'École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Ryan R Rykaczewski (RR)

Nippon Foundation Nereus Program, Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Honolulu, HI, USA.

Rebecca Selden (R)

Department of Biological Sciences, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.

Charles A Stock (CA)

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Colette C C Wabnitz (CCC)

Nippon Foundation Nereus Program and Changing Ocean Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Reg A Watson (RA)

Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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