Sardine cycles, krill declines, and locust plagues: revisiting ‘wasp-waist’ food webs
‘Wasp-waist’ systems are dominated by a mid trophic-level species that is thought to exert top-down control on its food and bottom-up control on its predators. Sardines, anchovy, and Antarctic krill are suggested examples, and here we use locusts to explore whether the wasp-waist concept also applie...
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ftplymouthml:oai:plymsea.ac.uk:6126 2023-05-15T13:57:46+02:00 Sardine cycles, krill declines, and locust plagues: revisiting ‘wasp-waist’ food webs Atkinson, A Hill, SL Barange, M Pakhomov, EA Raubenheimer, D Schmidt, K Simpson, SJ Reiss, C 2014-06 http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/6126/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.011 unknown Atkinson, A; Hill, SL; Barange, M; Pakhomov, EA; Raubenheimer, D; Schmidt, K; Simpson, SJ; Reiss, C. 2014 Sardine cycles, krill declines, and locust plagues: revisiting ‘wasp-waist’ food webs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29 (6). 309-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.011 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.011> Ecology and Environment Fisheries Marine Sciences Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2014 ftplymouthml https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.011 2022-09-13T05:48:32Z ‘Wasp-waist’ systems are dominated by a mid trophic-level species that is thought to exert top-down control on its food and bottom-up control on its predators. Sardines, anchovy, and Antarctic krill are suggested examples, and here we use locusts to explore whether the wasp-waist concept also applies on land. These examples also display the traits of mobile aggregations and dietary diversity, which help to reduce the foraging footprint from their large, localised biomasses. This suggests that top-down control on their food operates at local aggregation scales and not at wider scales suggested by the original definition of wasp-waist. With this modification, the wasp-waist framework can cross-fertilise marine and terrestrial approaches, revealing how seemingly disparate but economically important systems operate. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Krill Plymouth Marine Science Electronic Archive (PlyMSEA - Plymouth Marine Laboratory, PML) Antarctic Trends in Ecology & Evolution 29 6 309 316 |
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‘Wasp-waist’ systems are dominated by a mid trophic-level species that is thought to exert top-down control on its food and bottom-up control on its predators. Sardines, anchovy, and Antarctic krill are suggested examples, and here we use locusts to explore whether the wasp-waist concept also applies on land. These examples also display the traits of mobile aggregations and dietary diversity, which help to reduce the foraging footprint from their large, localised biomasses. This suggests that top-down control on their food operates at local aggregation scales and not at wider scales suggested by the original definition of wasp-waist. With this modification, the wasp-waist framework can cross-fertilise marine and terrestrial approaches, revealing how seemingly disparate but economically important systems operate. |
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Sardine cycles, krill declines, and locust plagues: revisiting ‘wasp-waist’ food webs |
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Atkinson, A; Hill, SL; Barange, M; Pakhomov, EA; Raubenheimer, D; Schmidt, K; Simpson, SJ; Reiss, C. 2014 Sardine cycles, krill declines, and locust plagues: revisiting ‘wasp-waist’ food webs. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 29 (6). 309-316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.011 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2014.03.011> |
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