Just published in PeerJ Life & Environment, a new research article by Professor Mark Costello (Nord University) and Doctor Han-Yang Lin (University of Auckland) unveils a comprehensive analysis of the ...
Researchers report that 148 years of fishing records in Canada's Lake Simcoe show that during a period of commercial fishing the mean trophic level of the catch declined, indicating depletion of ...
This is a data set from this paper: D. A. Arrington, K. O. Winemiller, W. F. Loftus, and S. Akin. 2002. How often do fishes 'run on empty'? Ecology 83 (8): 2145:2151. This study grew out of a similar ...
The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. A food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves. The trophic level ...
We live in an era — the Anthropocene — where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems. Pollution, human-made climate change and overfishing have all altered marine life and ocean ...