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Southern Ocean food web modelling: Progress, prognoses, and future priorities for research and policy makers

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العنوان: Southern Ocean food web modelling: Progress, prognoses, and future priorities for research and policy makers
المؤلفون: McCormack, Stacey A., Melbourne-Thomas, Jessica, Trebilco, Rowan, Griffith, Gary, Hill, Simeon, Hoover, Carie, Johnston, Nadine M., Marina, Tomás I., Murphy, Eugene J., Pakhomov, Evgeny A., Pinkerton, Matt, Plagányi, Éva, Saravia, Leonardo A., Subramaniam, Roshni C., Van de Putte, Anton P., Constable, Andrew J.
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive
الوصف: Globally important services are supported by Southern Ocean ecosystems, underpinned by the structure, function, and dynamics of complex interconnected and regionally distinctive food webs. These food webs vary in response to a combination of physical and chemical processes that alter productivity, species composition and the relative abundance and dynamics of organisms. Combined with regional and seasonal variability, climate-induced changes and human activities have and are expected to continue to drive important structural and functional changes to Southern Ocean food webs. However, our current understanding of food web structure, function, status, and trends is patchy in space and time, and methods for systematically assessing and comparing community-level responses to change within and across regional and temporal scales are not well developed. Insights gained from food web modelling studies—ranging from theoretical analyses of ecosystem resilience and adaptation, to qualitative and quantitative descriptions of the system—can assist in resolving patterns of energy flow and the ecological mechanisms that drive food web structure, function, and responses to drivers (such as fishing and climate change). This understanding is required to inform robust management strategies to conserve Southern Ocean food webs and the ecosystem services they underpin in the face of change. This paper synthesises the current state of knowledge regarding Southern Ocean pelagic food webs, highlighting the distinct regional food web characteristics, including key drivers of energy flow, dominant species, and network properties that may indicate system resilience. In particular, the insights, gaps, and potential integration of existing knowledge and Southern Ocean food web models are evaluated as a basis for developing integrated food web assessments that can be used to test the efficacy of alternative management and policy options. We discuss key limitations of existing models for assessing change resulting from various drivers, ...
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
وصف الملف: text
اللغة: English
Relation: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530988/1/fevo-09-624763.pdf; McCormack, Stacey A.; Melbourne-Thomas, Jessica; Trebilco, Rowan; Griffith, Gary; Hill, Simeon orcid:0000-0003-1441-8769; Hoover, Carie; Johnston, Nadine M.; Marina, Tomás I.; Murphy, Eugene J. orcid:0000-0002-7369-9196; Pakhomov, Evgeny A.; Pinkerton, Matt; Plagányi, Éva; Saravia, Leonardo A.; Subramaniam, Roshni C.; Van de Putte, Anton P.; Constable, Andrew J. 2021 Southern Ocean food web modelling: Progress, prognoses, and future priorities for research and policy makers. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 624763. 21, pp. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.624763
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.624763/full
DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.624763
الاتاحة: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530988/
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530988/1/fevo-09-624763.pdf
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.624763/full
https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.624763
Rights: cc_by_4
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.9BF43F6
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
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DOI:10.3389/fevo.2021.624763/full