Search Results - "Blanchard, Julia L"
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Vulnerability of Coral Reef Fisheries to a Loss of Structural Complexity
Published in Current biology (05-05-2014)“…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…”
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Fisheries productivity under progressive coral reef degradation
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-05-2018)“…1. In response to multiple Stressors, coral reef health has declined in recent decades, with reefs exhibiting reduced living coral and structural complexity,…”
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From Bacteria to Whales: Using Functional Size Spectra to Model Marine Ecosystems
Published in Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam) (01-03-2017)“…Size-based ecosystem modeling is emerging as a powerful way to assess ecosystem-level impacts of human- and environment-driven changes from individual-level…”
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Early warning signals of recovery in complex systems
Published in Nature communications (11-04-2019)“…Early warning signals (EWSs) offer the hope that patterns observed in data can predict the future states of ecological systems. While a large body of research…”
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Potential consequences of climate change for primary production and fish production in large marine ecosystems
Published in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences (05-11-2012)“…Existing methods to predict the effects of climate change on the biomass and production of marine communities are predicated on modelling the interactions and…”
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A bioenergetic framework for the temperature dependence of trophic interactions
Published in Ecology letters (01-08-2014)“…Changing temperature can substantially shift ecological communities by altering the strength and stability of trophic interactions. Because many ecological…”
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Evaluating targets and trade‐offs among fisheries and conservation objectives using a multispecies size spectrum model
Published in The Journal of applied ecology (01-06-2014)“…Marine environmental management policies seek to ensure that fishing impacts on fished populations and other components of the ecosystem are sustainable, to…”
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Changes in sea floor productivity are crucial to understanding the impact of climate change in temperate coastal ecosystems according to a new size-based model
Published in PLoS biology (11-12-2023)“…The multifaceted effects of climate change on physical and biogeochemical processes are rapidly altering marine ecosystems but often are considered in…”
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Globally consistent reef size spectra integrating fishes and invertebrates
Published in Ecology letters (01-03-2021)“…The frequency distribution of individual body sizes in animal communities (i.e. the size spectrum) provides powerful insights for understanding the energy flux…”
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Testing and recommending methods for fitting size spectra to data
Published in Methods in ecology and evolution (01-01-2017)“…Summary The size spectrum of an ecological community characterizes how a property, such as abundance or biomass, varies with body size. Size spectra are often…”
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A Conceptual Framework to Integrate Biodiversity, Ecosystem Function, and Ecosystem Service Models
Published in Bioscience (01-11-2022)“…Global biodiversity and ecosystem service models typically operate independently. Ecosystem service projections may therefore be overly optimistic because they…”
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Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture and fisheries production in 72 tropical coastal communities
Published in Nature communications (05-07-2022)“…Climate change is expected to profoundly affect key food production sectors, including fisheries and agriculture. However, the potential impacts of climate…”
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Species‐specific ontogenetic diet shifts attenuate trophic cascades and lengthen food chains in exploited ecosystems
Published in Oikos (01-07-2019)“…Ontogenetic diet shifts are pervasive in food websbut rules governing their emergence and the implications for trophic cascades are only partly understood…”
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Satellite remote sensing of ecosystem functions: opportunities, challenges and way forward
Published in Remote sensing in ecology and conservation (01-06-2018)“…Societal, economic and scientific interests in knowing where biodiversity is, how it is faring and what can be done to efficiently mitigate further…”
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Decades of dietary data demonstrate regional food web structures in the Southern Ocean
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-01-2021)“…Understanding regional‐scale food web structure in the Southern Ocean is critical to informing fisheries management and assessments of climate change impacts…”
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trait‐based metric sheds new light on the nature of the body size–depth relationship in the deep sea
Published in The Journal of animal ecology (01-03-2016)“…Variation within species is an often‐overlooked aspect of community ecology, despite the fact that the ontogenetic structure of populations influences…”
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Trophic amplification: A model intercomparison of climate driven changes in marine food webs
Published in PloS one (23-08-2023)“…Marine animal biomass is expected to decrease in the 21st century due to climate driven changes in ocean environmental conditions. Previous studies suggest…”
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Assessing National Biodiversity Trends for Rocky and Coral Reefs through the Integration of Citizen Science and Scientific Monitoring Programs
Published in Bioscience (01-02-2017)“…Reporting progress against targets for international biodiversity agreements is hindered by a shortage of suitable biodiversity data. We describe a…”
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Time to rethink trophic levels in aquaculture policy
Published in Reviews in aquaculture (01-06-2021)“…Aquaculture policy often promotes production of low‐trophic level species for sustainable industry growth. Yet, the application of the trophic level concept to…”
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Global-scale predictions of community and ecosystem properties from simple ecological theory
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-06-2008)“…t (2.80 g m…”
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