Search filters

List of works by James A. Estes

A keystone ecologist: Robert Treat Paine, 1933-2016.

scientific article

A multi-decade time series of kelp forest community structure at San Nicolas Island, California (USA)

scientific article published in November 2013

AN INTRODUCED PREDATOR ALTERS ALEUTIAN ISLAND PLANT COMMUNITIES BY THWARTING NUTRIENT SUBSIDIES

scientific article published in February 2006

Activity Patterns and Time Budgets of the Declining Sea Otter Population at Amchitka Island, Alaska

scientific article published on 23 March 2007

Aleuts, sea otters, and alternate stable-state communities

scientific article published on 01 April 1978

Animating the Carbon Cycle

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Bald eagles and sea otters in the Aleutian Archipelago: indirect effects of trophic cascades

scientific article

COMPARING MARINE AND TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DESIGN OF COASTAL MARINE RESERVES

scientific article

Catastrophes and conservation: lessons from sea otters and the exxon valdez

scientific article published on 01 December 1991

Challenges in the Quest for Keystones

article

Clinical pathology and assessment of pathogen exposure in southern and Alaskan sea otters

scientific article

Conserving the World's Megafauna and Biodiversity: The Fierce Urgency of Now

Coralline alga reveals first marine record of subarctic North Pacific climate change

article

Costs and benefits of living with predators

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

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

scientific article published in October 2012

Ecological Effectiveness: Conservation Goals for Interactive Species

scientific article published on 26 September 2003

Enhydra lutris ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 April 1980

Environmental contaminants in bald eagle eggs from the Aleutian archipelago

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Evaluation of an Aerial Survey of Pacific Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus divergens)

article published in 1978

Evolutionary consequences of food chain length in kelp forest communities

scientific article

Experimental Investigation of the Dietary Ecology of the Extinct Passenger Pigeon, Ectopistes migratorius

scientific article published in 2018

Food limitation leads to behavioral diversification and dietary specialization in sea otters

scientific article

Gene transcription in sea otters (Enhydra lutris); development of a diagnostic tool for sea otter and ecosystem health

scientific article published on 17 August 2011

Genomic basis for skin phenotype and cold adaptation in the extinct Steller’s sea cow

scientific article published on 04 February 2022

Global patterns of kelp forest change over the past half-century.

scientific article

Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems

scientific article (publication date: 27 July 2001)

Incorporating diverse data and realistic complexity into demographic estimation procedures for sea otters

scientific article

Indirect food web interactions: sea otters and kelp forest fishes in the Aleutian archipelago

scientific article

Integrating the invisible fabric of nature into fisheries management

scientific article published on 23 December 2013

Introduced predators transform subarctic islands from grassland to tundra

scientific article

Is the nihilistic approach to surgical reduction of superficial and perforator vein incompetence for venous ulcer justified?

scientific article published on December 2002

Kelp forest ecosystems: biodiversity, stability, resilience and future ⬇️

article

Keystone predators govern the pathway and pace of climate impacts in a subarctic marine ecosystem

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Killer Whale Predation on Sea Otters Linking Oceanic and Nearshore Ecosystems ⬇️

scientific article published on October 16, 1998

Magnification of secondary production by kelp detritus in coastal marine ecosystems

scientific article published in July 1989

Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean

scientific article

Ocean Calamities: Hyped Litany or Legitimate Concern?

Ontogenetic and among-individual variation in foraging strategies of northeast Pacific white sharks based on stable isotope analysis.

scientific article

Organochlorine contaminants in coastal marine ecosystems of southern Alaska: inferences from spatial patterns in blue mussels (Mytilus trossulus).

scientific article published on 12 May 2012

Organochlorine contaminants in fishes from coastal waters west of Amukta Pass, Aleutian Islands, Alaska, USA.

scientific article

Patterns of growth and body condition in sea otters from the Aleutian archipelago before and after the recent population decline.

scientific article published in July 2006

Persistent organic pollutants in the blood of free-ranging sea otters (Enhydra lutris ssp.) in Alaska and California.

scientific article published on October 2010

Physical disturbance by recovering sea otter populations increases eelgrass genetic diversity

scientific article published in 2021

Pleistocene rewilding: an optimistic agenda for twenty-first century conservation

scientific article

Predation, herbivory, and kelp evolution

scientific article published in 1988

Predicting and Detecting Reciprocity between Indirect Ecological Interactions and Evolution ⬇️

scientific article published on March 21, 2013

Predicting community responses to perturbations in the face of imperfect knowledge and network complexity.

scientific article published in April 2011

Prey choice and habitat use drive sea otter pathogen exposure in a resource-limited coastal system

scholarly article

Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Rehabilitating sea otters

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Reply to Cucheroussetet al

scientific article published in 2012

Riverine mammals: otters

scientific article published on 01 September 1986

Robert Treat Paine III (1933-2016).

scientific article

SEA OTTER POPULATION DECLINES IN THE ALEUTIAN ARCHIPELAGO

article published in 2003

Salmon, seabirds, and ecosystem dynamics

scientific article

Saving the World's Terrestrial Megafauna.

scientific article

Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in Alaska: Generality and Variation in a Community Ecological Paradigm

scholarly article by James A. Estes & David O. Duggins published February 1995 in Ecological Monographs

Sea otter population collapse in southwest Alaska: assessing ecological covariates, consequences, and causal factors

scientific article published on 16 June 2021

Sea otters in a dirty ocean

scientific article published in December 2007

Sea otters, kelp forests, and the extinction of Steller's sea cow

scientific article

Sequential megafaunal collapse in the North Pacific Ocean: An ongoing legacy of industrial whaling? ⬇️

scientific article published on October 2, 2003

Size, growth, and density data for shallow-water sea urchins from Mexico to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1956-2016.

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Southeast Alaskan kelp forests: inferences of process from large-scale patterns of variation in space and time

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Stability, resilience, and phase shifts in rocky subtidal communities along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada

scientific article published in 2011

Status and ecological effects of the world's largest carnivores

scientific article

Structure and mechanism of diet specialisation: testing models of individual variation in resource use with sea otters ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2012

The cost of reproduction: differential resource specialization in female and male California sea otters.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

The diving physiology of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). III. Thermoregulation at depth

scientific article published on October 1999

The ecology of extinctions in kelp forest communities

academic journal article

The kelp highway hypothesis: marine ecology, the coastal migration theory, and the peopling of the Americas

article

The use of marine reserves in evaluating the dive fishery for the warty sea cucumber (Parastichopus parvimensis) in California, U.S.A.

scientific article published on 24 April 2011

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

scientific article

Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable?

scientific article published on April 2008

Using demography and movement behavior to predict range expansion of the southern sea otter

scientific article published on October 2008

Using ecological function to develop recovery criteria for depleted species: sea otters and kelp forests in the Aleutian archipelago

scientific article

Using stable isotopes to investigate individual diet specialization in California sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis).

scientific article published in April 2009

Variation in δ13C and δ15N diet–vibrissae trophic discrimination factors in a wild population of California sea otters ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

scholarly article by Joe Roman published in September 2014

What is a Trophic Cascade?

scientific article published on 20 September 2016

Paulina is supported by:

About Paulina

Help