The rapid pace of environmental change in the Anthropocene necessitates the development
of a new suite of tools for measuring ecosystem dynamics. Sentinel species can provide …

Ecological thresholds comprise relatively fast changes in ecological conditions, with respect
to time or external drivers, and are an attractive concept in both scientific and policy arenas …

Climate change is impacting fisheries worldwide with uncertain outcomes for food and
nutritional security. Using management strategy evaluations for key US fisheries in the …

Understanding tip** point dynamics in harvested ecosystems is of crucial importance for
sustainable resource management because ignoring their existence imperils social …

DNA metabarcoding is an important tool for molecular ecology. However, its effectiveness
hinges on the quality of reference sequence databases and classification parameters …

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 …

The clarification of land use management in areas of potential land use conflict plays an
important role in maintaining ecosystem services. However, the relationship between land …

Marine ecosystems are prone to tip** points, particularly in coastal zones where dramatic
changes are associated with interactions between cumulative stressors (eg, shellfish …

Abstract Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM), intended to restore, enhance and/or protect
the resilience of ecosystems, is gaining momentum. It is often argued, though, that some of …

Individual behavioural specialisation has far‐reaching effects on fitness and population
persistence. Theory predicts that unconditional site fidelity, that is fidelity to a site …