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
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
76-86Informations de copyright
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