A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications

WL Geary, M Bode, TS Doherty, EA Fulton… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Applied ecology has traditionally approached management problems through a simplified,
single-species lens. Repeated failures of single-species management have led us to a new …

Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st century

HM Pereira, PW Leadley, V Proença, R Alkemade… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Quantitative scenarios are coming of age as a tool for evaluating the impact of future
socioeconomic development pathways on biodiversity and ecosystem services. We analyze …

Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change

HK Lotze, DP Tittensor, A Bryndum-Buchholz… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
While the physical dimensions of climate change are now routinely assessed through
multimodel intercomparisons, projected impacts on the global ocean ecosystem generally …

[HTML][HTML] Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management

JJ Heymans, M Coll, JS Link, S Mackinson… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) models are easier to construct and use compared to
most other ecosystem modelling techniques and are therefore more widely used by more …

Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications

A Waldron, V Adams, J Allan, A Arnell, G Asner… - 2020 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and economic implications Waldron, A.
Page 1 https://helda.helsinki.fi Protecting 30% of the planet for nature: costs, benefits and …

State-of-the-art global models underestimate impacts from climate extremes

J Schewe, SN Gosling, C Reyer, F Zhao, P Ciais… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Global impact models represent process-level understanding of how natural and human
systems may be affected by climate change. Their projections are used in integrated …

Severe continental-scale impacts of climate change are happening now: Extreme climate events impact marine habitat forming communities along 45% of Australia's …

RC Babcock, RH Bustamante, EA Fulton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Recent increases in the frequency of extreme climate events (ECEs) such as heatwaves and
floods have been attributed to climate change, and could have pronounced ecosystem and …

The ecological role of sharks on coral reefs

G Roff, C Doropoulos, A Rogers, YM Bozec… - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
Sharks are considered the apex predator of coral reefs, but the consequences of their global
depletion are uncertain. Here we explore the ecological roles of sharks on coral reefs and …

It is past time to use ecosystem models tactically to support ecosystem‐based fisheries management: Case studies using Ecopath with Ecosim in an operational …

JK Craig, JS Link - Fish and Fisheries, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The implementation of ecosystem management requires ecosystem modelling within the
context of a natural resource management process. Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) is the most …

Equation-free mechanistic ecosystem forecasting using empirical dynamic modeling

H Ye, RJ Beamish, SM Glaser, SCH Grant… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - pnas.org
It is well known that current equilibrium-based models fall short as predictive descriptions of
natural ecosystems, and particularly of fisheries systems that exhibit nonlinear dynamics. For …