Environmental variability in aquatic ecosystems: Avenues for future multifactorial experiments

M Gerhard, AM Koussoroplis, M Raatz… - Limnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The relevance of considering environmental variability for understanding and predicting
biological responses to environmental changes has resulted in a recent surge in variability …

Using global-scale Earth system models for regional fisheries applications

KA Kearney, SJ Bograd, E Drenkard… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Climate change may impact ocean ecosystems through a number of mechanisms, including
shifts in primary productivity or plankton community structure, ocean acidification, and …

Global seabird response to forage fish depletion—one-third for the birds

PM Cury, IL Boyd, S Bonhommeau, T Anker-Nilssen… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Determining the form of key predator-prey relationships is critical for understanding marine
ecosystem dynamics. Using a comprehensive global database, we quantified the effect of …

Fishing amplifies forage fish population collapses

TE Essington, PE Moriarty… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Forage fish support the largest fisheries in the world but also play key roles in marine food
webs by transferring energy from plankton to upper trophic-level predators, such as large …

Multispecies fisheries management and conservation: tactical applications using models of intermediate complexity

ÉE Plagányi, AE Punt, R Hillary, EB Morello… - Fish and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Stakeholders increasingly expect ecosystem assessments as part of advice on fisheries
management. Quantitative models to support fisheries decision‐making may be either …

Long-term observations from Antarctica demonstrate that mismatched scales of fisheries management and predator-prey interaction lead to erroneous conclusions …

GM Watters, JT Hinke, CS Reiss - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Low catch limits for forage species are often considered to be precautionary measures that
can help conserve marine predators. Difficulties measuring the impacts of fisheries removals …

A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three‐dimensional structural diversity

EA LaRue, RT Fahey, BC Alveshere… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The three‐dimensional (3D) physical aspects of ecosystems are intrinsically linked to
ecological processes. Here, we describe structural diversity as the volumetric capacity …

Increasing the uptake of multispecies models in fisheries management

MA Karp, JS Link, M Grezlik, S Cadrin… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Multispecies models have existed in a fisheries context since at least the 1970s, but despite
much exploration, advancement, and consideration of multispecies models, there remain …

Modelling climate change impacts on marine fish populations: process‐based integration of ocean warming, acidification and other environmental drivers

S Koenigstein, FC Mark… - Fish and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Global climate change affects marine fish through drivers such as ocean warming,
acidification and oxygen depletion, causing changes in marine ecosystems and …

Increasing variance in North Pacific climate relates to unprecedented ecosystem variability off California

WJ Sydeman, JA Santora, SA Thompson… - Global Change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in variance are infrequently examined in climate change ecology. We
tested the hypothesis that recent high variability in demographic attributes of salmon and …