Impacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable

H Welch, MS Savoca, S Brodie, MG Jacox… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Marine heatwaves cause widespread environmental, biological, and socio-economic
impacts, placing them at the forefront of 21st-century management challenges. However …

Characteristics of animal movement and environmental data for dynamic ocean management: Insights and guidance

LH McDonnell, EL Hazen… - Conservation science and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic ocean management (DOM) is a critical approach for protecting highly migratory
species amid environmental variability and change. We conducted an adapted systematic …

Ecological forecasts for marine resource management during climate extremes

S Brodie, M Pozo Buil, H Welch, SJ Bograd… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Forecasting weather has become commonplace, but as society faces novel and uncertain
environmental conditions there is a critical need to forecast ecology. Forewarning of …

Marine heatwaves redistribute pelagic fishing fleets

N Farchadi, H Welch, CD Braun, AJ Allyn… - Fish and …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have measurable impacts on marine ecosystems and reliant
fisheries and associated communities. However, how MHWs translate to changes in fishing …

An evaluation of high-resolution ocean reanalyses in the California current system

DJ Amaya, MA Alexander, JD Scott, MG Jacox - Progress in Oceanography, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Sparse and inconsistent coverage of ocean observations makes analysis of climate impacts
on ocean physics and marine ecosystems challenging. As a result, ocean reanalyses (ie …

Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of North American coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments

MG Jacox, MA Alexander, S Siedlecki, K Chen… - Progress in …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Marine ecosystem forecasting is an area of active research and rapid development. Promise
has been shown for skillful prediction of physical, biogeochemical, and ecological variables …

Basin-wide estimates of loggerhead turtle abundance in the Mediterranean Sea derived from line transect surveys

A DiMatteo, A Cañadas, J Roberts, L Sparks… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Loggerhead turtles are a globally vulnerable species of marine turtle. Broad-scale patterns
of distribution and abundance can provide regional managers a tool to effectively conserve …

Projecting climate change impacts from physics to fisheries: A view from three California Current fisheries

JA Smith, MP Buil, B Muhling, D Tommasi… - Progress in …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Motivated by a need for climate-informed living marine resource management, increased
emphasis has been placed on regional end-to-end modeling frameworks designed to …

Comparing dynamic and static time-area closures for bycatch mitigation: a management strategy evaluation of a swordfish fishery

JA Smith, D Tommasi, H Welch, EL Hazen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Time-area closures are a valuable tool for mitigating fisheries bycatch. There is increasing
recognition that dynamic closures, which have boundaries that vary across space and time …

Exploring timescales of predictability in species distributions

S Brodie, B Abrahms, SJ Bograd, G Carroll… - …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Accurate forecasts of how animals respond to climate‐driven environmental change are
needed to prepare for future redistributions, however, it is unclear which temporal scales of …