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Rescaling the trophic structure of marine food webs

Ecology letters, 2014-02, Vol.17 (2), p.239-250 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Rescaling the trophic structure of marine food webs
Author: Hussey, Nigel E. ; MacNeil, M. Aaron ; McMeans, Bailey C. ; Olin, Jill A. ; Dudley, Sheldon F.J. ; Cliff, Geremy ; Wintner, Sabine P. ; Fennessy, Sean T. ; Fisk, Aaron T.
Hessen, Dag ; Hessen, Dag
Subjects: Agnatha. Pisces ; Animal and plant ecology ; Animal, plant and microbial ecology ; Animals ; Arctic Regions ; Biological and medical sciences ; Discrimination ; fish ; Fishes ; Food Chain ; Food chains ; food webs ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; General aspects ; Human influences ; Letters ; marine ; Marine biology ; Models, Biological ; Nitrogen Isotopes ; Oceans and Seas ; Predation ; Sea water ecosystems ; shark ; South Africa ; stable isotopes ; Studies ; Synecology ; trophic level ; trophic position ; Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution
Is Part Of: Ecology letters, 2014-02, Vol.17 (2), p.239-250
Description: Measures of trophic position (TP) are critical for understanding food web interactions and human‐mediated ecosystem disturbance. Nitrogen stable isotopes (δ15N) provide a powerful tool to estimate TP but are limited by a pragmatic assumption that isotope discrimination is constant (change in δ15N between predator and prey, Δ15N = 3.4‰), resulting in an additive framework that omits known Δ15N variation. Through meta‐analysis, we determine narrowing discrimination from an empirical linear relationship between experimental Δ15N and δ15N values of prey consumed. The resulting scaled Δ15N framework estimated reliable TPs of zooplanktivores to tertiary piscivores congruent with known feeding relationships that radically alters the conventional structure of marine food webs. Apex predator TP estimates were markedly higher than currently assumed by whole‐ecosystem models, indicating perceived food webs have been truncated and species‐interactions over simplified. The scaled Δ15N framework will greatly improve the accuracy of trophic estimates widely used in ecosystem‐based management.
Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1461-023X
EISSN: 1461-0248
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12226
PMID: 24308860
Source: MEDLINE
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