The global ocean size spectrum from bacteria to whales

Estimating global biomass and biogeochemical cycling of marine fish with and without fishing

(2021) Daniele Bianchi et al.   Science Advances

Length‐weight relationships of mesopelagic fishes from the equatorial and tropical Atlantic waters: influence of environment and body shape

(2020) Cristina López‐Pérez et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Rebuilding marine life

(2020) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   NATURE

Increasing nutrient stress reduces the efficiency of energy transfer through planktonic size spectra

(2020) Angus Atkinson et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Metabolic asymmetry and the global diversity of marine predators

(2019) John M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change

(2019) Heike K. Lotze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bottom-up drivers of global patterns of demersal, forage, and pelagic fishes

(2019) Colleen M. Petrik et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Linking scaling laws across eukaryotes

(2019) Ian A. Hatton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Biomass Composition of the Oceans: A Blueprint of Our Blue Planet

(2019) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   CELL

Estimates of density of mesopelagic fish in the Southern Ocean derived from bulk acoustic data collected by ships of opportunity

(2019) Pablo C. Escobar-Flores et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

From siphonophores to deep scattering layers: uncertainty ranges for the estimation of global mesopelagic fish biomass

(2018) Roland Proud et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pyramids and cascades: a synthesis of food chain functioning and stability

(2018) Matthieu Barbier et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Consistent trophic amplification of marine biomass declines under climate change

(2018) Lester Kwiatkowski et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Length-weight relationships of eleven mesopelagic fishes from oceanic islands of the Southwestern Tropical Atlantic

(2018) Leandro N. Eduardo et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ICHTHYOLOGY

From Bacteria to Whales: Using Functional Size Spectra to Model Marine Ecosystems

(2017) Julia L. Blanchard et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A coupled human-Earth model perspective on long-term trends in the global marine fishery

(2017) E. D. Galbraith et al.   Nature Communications

Unveiling the role and life strategies of viruses from the surface to the dark ocean

(2017) Elena Lara et al.   Science Advances

Fitting power-laws in empirical data with estimators that work for all exponents

(2017) Rudolf Hanel et al.   PLoS One

Formulation, General Features and Global Calibration of a Bioenergetically-Constrained Fishery Model

(2017) David A. Carozza et al.   PLoS One

Ecological Influences and Morphological Correlates of Resting and Maximal Metabolic Rates across Teleost Fish Species

(2016) Shaun S. Killen et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Characteristic Sizes of Life in the Oceans, from Bacteria to Whales

(2016) K.H. Andersen et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Shifts in plankton size spectra modulate growth and coexistence of anchovy and sardine in upwelling systems

(2016) T. Mariella Canales et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Surfing the biomass size spectrum: some remarks on history, theory, and application

(2016) William Gary Sprules et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Modelling the community size-spectrum: recent developments and new directions

(2016) Jérôme Guiet et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Fishing degrades size structure of coral reef fish communities

(2016) James P. W. Robinson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

In situ imaging reveals the biomass of giant protists in the global ocean

(2016) Tristan Biard et al.   NATURE

Catch reconstructions reveal that global marine fisheries catches are higher than reported and declining

(2016) Daniel Pauly et al.   Nature Communications

Re-examination of the relationship between marine virus and microbial cell abundances

(2016) Charles H. Wigington et al.   Nature Microbiology

The timing of anthropogenic emergence in simulated climate extremes

(2015) Andrew D King et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

(2015) I. A. Hatton et al.   SCIENCE

Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean

(2015) C. de Vargas et al.   SCIENCE

The unique ecology of human predators

(2015) C. T. Darimont et al.   SCIENCE

Ubiquitous healthy diatoms in the deep sea confirm deep carbon injection by the biological pump

(2015) S. Agusti et al.   Nature Communications

Predicting Consumer Biomass, Size-Structure, Production, Catch Potential, Responses to Fishing and Associated Uncertainties in the World’s Marine Ecosystems

(2015) Simon Jennings et al.   PLoS One

Shifts in Mass Scaling of Respiration, Feeding, and Growth Rates across Life-Form Transitions in Marine Pelagic Organisms

(2014) Thomas Kiørboe et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A new look at the Lake Superior biomass size spectrum

(2014) Peder M. Yurista et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Metabolic state along a summer north–south transect near the Antarctic Peninsula: a size spectra approach

(2014) Cristina García-Muñoz et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

A century of fish biomass decline in the ocean

(2014) V Christensen et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Resource Supply Overrides Temperature as a Controlling Factor of Marine Phytoplankton Growth

(2014) Emilio Marañón et al.   PLoS One

Fitting and goodness-of-fit test of non-truncated and truncated power-law distributions

(2013) Anna Deluca et al.   Acta Geophysica

Meta-Analysis of Quantification Methods Shows that Archaea and Bacteria Have Similar Abundances in the Subseafloor

(2013) Karen G. Lloyd et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Plankton and seston size spectra estimated by the LOPC and ZooScan in the Abrolhos Bank ecosystem (SE Atlantic)

(2013) Catarina da Rocha Marcolin et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH

Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on the pyramids of life

(2013) Rowan Trebilco et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Spawning biomass reference points for exploited marine fishes, incorporating taxonomic and body size information

(2012) James T. Thorson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Efficient trawl avoidance by mesopelagic fishes causes large underestimation of their biomass

(2012) S Kaartvedt et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

The future of fish

(2012) Boris Worm et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Seasonal trophic structure of the Scotia Sea pelagic ecosystem considered through biomass spectra and stable isotope analysis

(2011) G.A. Tarling et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Size spectra of lake fish assemblages: responses along gradients of general environmental factors and intensity of lake-use

(2011) MATTHIAS EMMRICH et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Microbial oceanography of the dark ocean's pelagic realm

(2011) Javier Arístegui et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Global distribution and conservation of marine mammals

(2011) S. Pompa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fishing destabilizes the biomass flow in the marine size spectrum

(2011) M.- J. Rochet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

smatr 3- an R package for estimation and inference about allometric lines

(2011) David I. Warton et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

A three-component model of phytoplankton size class for the Atlantic Ocean

(2010) Robert J.W. Brewin et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Biogeochemical fluxes through microzooplankton

(2010) Erik T. Buitenhuis et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Body composition in aquatic organisms — A global data bank of relationships between mass, elemental composition and energy content

(2010) Thomas Brey et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

Food web framework for size-structured populations

(2010) Martin Hartvig et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Size-spectra dynamics from stochastic predation and growth of individuals

(2009) Richard Law et al.   ECOLOGY

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

A New Algorithm for Finding Mixed Layer Depths with Applications to Argo Data and Subantarctic Mode Water Formation*

(2009) James Holte et al.   JOURNAL OF ATMOSPHERIC AND OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY

Power-Law Distributions in Empirical Data

(2009) Aaron Clauset et al.   SIAM REVIEW

Historical baselines for large marine animals

(2009) Heike K. Lotze et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ecological change in Great Lakes communities — a matter of perspective

(2008) W Gary Sprules   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

PREDATOR AND PREY BODY SIZES IN MARINE FOOD WEBS

(2008) C. Barnes et al.   ECOLOGY

Mean mass-specific metabolic rates are strikingly similar across life's major domains: Evidence for life's metabolic optimum

(2008) A. M. Makarieva et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

(2008) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   SCIENCE