Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave

RM Suryan, ML Arimitsu, HA Coletti, RR Hopcroft… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Some of the longest and most comprehensive marine ecosystem monitoring programs were
established in the Gulf of Alaska following the environmental disaster of the Exxon Valdez oil …

The changing physical and ecological meanings of North Pacific Ocean climate indices

MA Litzow, ME Hunsicker, NA Bond… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Climate change is likely to change the relationships between commonly used climate
indices and underlying patterns of climate variability, but this complexity is rarely considered …

Non-stationary climate–salmon relationships in the Gulf of Alaska

MA Litzow, L Ciannelli, P Puerta… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studies of climate effects on ecology often account for non-stationarity in individual physical
and biological variables, but rarely allow for non-stationary relationships among variables …

A risk table to address concerns external to stock assessments when develo** fisheries harvest recommendations

MW Dorn, SG Zador - Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2020 - spj.science.org
This paper develops a risk table to facilitate incorporation of additional information into the
fisheries stock assessment and management process. The risk table is designed to evaluate …

Critical transitions and ecological resilience of large marine ecosystems in the Northwestern Pacific in response to global warming

S Ma, D Liu, Y Tian, C Fu, J Li, P Ju, P Sun… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Natural systems can undergo critical transitions, leading to substantial socioeconomic and
ecological outcomes.“Ecological resilience” has been proposed to describe the capacity of …

Quantifying a novel climate through changes in PDO‐climate and PDO‐salmon relationships

MA Litzow, MJ Malick, NA Bond… - Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We used changing relationships between primary climate variables and the Pacific Decadal
Oscillation (PDO) index to quantify novel climate conditions during rapid warming of the Gulf …

Evaluating ecosystem change as Gulf of Alaska temperature exceeds the limits of preindustrial variability

MA Litzow, ME Hunsicker, EJ Ward… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf of Alaska experienced extreme temperatures during 2014–2019, including
the four warmest years ever observed. The goal of this study is to evaluate the ecological …

Climate‐induced nonlinearity in pelagic communities and non‐stationary relationships with physical drivers in the Kuroshio ecosystem

S Ma, Y Tian, C Fu, H Yu, J Li, Y Liu, J Cheng… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate‐induced nonlinearity in biological variability and non‐stationary relationships with
physical drivers are crucial to understand responses of marine organisms to climate …

Non‐stationary effects of multiple drivers on the dynamics of Japanese sardine (Sardinops melanostictus, Clupeidae)

S Ma, C Fu, J Li, P Sun, Y Liu, Z Ye… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐stationary driver‐response relationships are increasingly being recognized by
scientists, underlining that a paradigm shift out of conventional stationary relationships is …

Nonstationary environmental and community relationships in the North Pacific Ocean

MA Litzow, L Ciannelli, P Puerta, JJ Wettstein… - 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Common approaches for summarizing multivariate environmental or community data
assume that relationships among variables are stationary over time, and this assumption is …