Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

The discovery of a natural whale fall in the Antarctic deep sea

(2013) Diva J. Amon et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Animating the Carbon Cycle

(2013) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Preliminary investigation into the stimulation of phytoplankton photophysiology and growth by whale faeces

(2013) Laura V. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Recovery Trends in Marine Mammal Populations

(2013) Anna M. Magera et al.   PLoS One

Dividing up the pie: Whales, fish, and humans as competitors

(2013) James J. Ruzicka et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Ancient DNA reveals that bowhead whale lineages survived Late Pleistocene climate change and habitat shifts

(2013) Andrew D. Foote et al.   Nature Communications

Exploring the Consequences of Species Interactions Through the Assembly and Disassembly of Food Webs: A Pacific-Atlantic Comparison

(2012) James A Estes et al.   BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE

Long-term population size of the North Atlantic humpback whale within the context of worldwide population structure

(2012) Kristen Ruegg et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Do trophic cascades affect the storage and flux of atmospheric carbon? An analysis of sea otters and kelp forests

(2012) Christopher C Wilmers et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Evolution of the Arctic Calanus complex: an Arctic marine avocado?

(2012) J. Berge et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH

Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

(2012) Victor Smetacek et al.   NATURE

Marine Mammal Impacts in Exploited Ecosystems: Would Large Scale Culling Benefit Fisheries?

(2012) Lyne Morissette et al.   PLoS One

Lead poisoning and the deceptive recovery of the critically endangered California condor

(2012) M. E. Finkelstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals

(2012) A. D. Davidson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA

(2010) Lonny Lundsten et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

‘Whales eat fish’? Demystifying the myth in the Caribbean marine ecosystem

(2010) Lyne Morissette et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Southern Ocean iron fertilization by baleen whales and Antarctic krill

(2010) Stephen Nicol et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

The giant bite of a new raptorial sperm whale from the Miocene epoch of Peru

(2010) Olivier Lambert et al.   NATURE

The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better

(2010) Andrew J. Pershing et al.   PLoS One

The Whale Pump: Marine Mammals Enhance Primary Productivity in a Coastal Basin

(2010) Joe Roman et al.   PLoS One

Iron defecation by sperm whales stimulates carbon export in the Southern Ocean

(2010) T. J. Lavery et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances

(2009) Julia K. Baum et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Causes and consequences of marine mammal population declines in southwest Alaska: a food-web perspective

(2009) J.A. Estes et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mammal-eating killer whales, industrial whaling, and the sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: A reply to critics of Springer et al. 2003

(2008) A. M. Springer et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE