A5011597174- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Complex Systems and Decision Making
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant and animal studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
Office of Science
2017-2025
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
2009-2025
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2013-2025
NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Science and Technology
2023-2025
NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
2025
Chesapeake Bay Program
2007-2024
Louisiana State University
2024
NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
2023
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
2020
Wake Forest University
2002-2017
Abstract As the urgency to evaluate impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems increases, there is a need develop robust projections and improve uptake ecosystem model outputs in policy planning. Standardizing input output data crucial step evaluating communicating results, but can be challenging when using models with diverse structures, assumptions, that address region‐specific issues. We developed an implementation framework workflow standardize fishing forcings used by regional...
Although many countries have formally committed to Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management (EBFM), actual progress toward these goals has been slow. This paper presents two independent case studies that combined strategic advice from ecosystem modeling with the tactical of single-species assessment models provide practical ecosystem-based management advice. With this approach, stock status, reference points, and initial target F are computed a model, then an model rescales according indicators...
Worldwide fisheries management has been undergoing a paradigm shift from single-species approach to ecosystem approaches. In the U.S., NOAA adopted policy statement and Road Map guide development implementation of ecosystem-based (EBFM). NOAA's EBFM supports addressing interconnections help maintain resilient productive ecosystems, even as they respond climate, habitat, ecological, social economic changes. Managing natural marine resources while taking into account their interactions with...
Abstract 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 limited examples their operational use fishery management. Given that species fleet interactions are inherently problems push towards ecosystem-based management, lack more regular is both surprising compelling. We identify impediments hampering provide recommendations to address those impediments. These...
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) of the ocean considers all impacts on and uses marine coastal systems. In recent years, there has been a heightened interest in EBM tools that allow testing alternative options help identify tradeoffs among human uses. End-to-end ecosystem modelling frameworks consider wide range are means to provide integrated solutions complex problems encountered EBM. Here, we leverage global advances explore common opportunities challenges for ecosystem-based management,...
Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation approach that serves as “light on the hill” ( Smith, 1994 ) to test options for marine management, monitoring, and assessment against simulated ecosystem fishery dynamics, including uncertainty in ecological processes observations. MSE has become key method evaluate trade-offs between management objectives communicate with decision makers. Here we describe how why continuing grow from single species one relevant multi-species...
Abstract Since the 1950s, invertebrate fisheries catches have rapidly expanded globally to more than 10 million tonnes annually, with twice as many target species, and are now significant contributors global seafood provision, export, trade local livelihoods. Invertebrates play important diverse functional roles in marine ecosystems, yet ecosystem effects of their exploitation poorly understood. Using 12 models distributed worldwide, we analysed trade‐offs various well ecological indicators....
As the urgency to evaluate impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems increases, there is a need develop robust projections and improve uptake ecosystem model outputs in policy planning. Standardising input output data crucial step evaluating communicating results, but can be challenging when using models with diverse structures, assumptions, that address region-specific issues. We developed an implementation framework workflow standardise fishing forcings used by regional contributing...
Shewanella is a genus of Gram-negative marine bacteria with some species associated human and shellfish illnesses. This study evaluated the abundance in oysters seawater from Chesapeake Maryland Coastal Bays at four sites between 2019 2021. Physicochemical parameters such as temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, pH, chlorophyll-a, rainfall within last 48 h, total solids, atmospheric pressure were also recorded to evaluate if there was correlation environmental level Shewanella....
ABSTRACT Objective The outbreak of mycobacteriosis among Atlantic Striped Bass Morone saxatilis in the main-stem and Virginia portions Chesapeake Bay has been shown to impact their survival, growth, fecundity. In this study, we analyzed long-term fish health monitoring data from Maryland portion identify disease trends potential drivers. Methods This study explored prevalence severity influence environmental nutritional stress on dynamics for waters using generalized linear models estimates...
Climate change effects on population dynamics of natural populations are well documented at higher latitudes, where relatively rapid warming illuminates cause-effect relationships, but not in the tropics and especially marine tropics, has been slow. Here we forecast indirect effect ocean a top predator, Nazca boobies equatorial Galápagos Islands, rising water temperature is expected to exceed upper thermal tolerance key prey item future, severely reducing its availability within boobies'...
Atlantic menhaden ( Brevoortia tyrannus ) support the largest fishery by volume on United States East Coast, while also playing an important role as a forage species. Managers’ and stakeholders’ increasing concerns about impact of harvest ecosystem processes led to evolution in assessment management this species from purely single-species approach approach. The first coastwide stock for used virtual population analysis (VPA). Subsequent assessments forward projecting statistical catch-at-age...
Coastal ecosystems are experiencing degradation from compound impacts of climate change and multiple anthropogenic disturbances. These pressures often act synergistically complicate designing effective conservation measures; consequently, large-scale coastal restoration actions become a wicked problem. The purpose this study was to use two different food web models in coordinated manner inform resource managers their assessment the ecological effects marsh project. A team formed that...
The United States, the EU and Canada established a trilateral working group on ecosystem approach to ocean health stressors under Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance. Recognizing as shared resource responsibility, sought advance understanding of its dynamic systems improve health, enhance stewardship promote sustainable use management resources. This included consideration multiple ocean-use sectors such fishing, shipping, tourism offshore energy. met for 4 years worked through eight steps that...
Abstract Tools that integrate the complexity of natural systems are needed to facilitate ecosystem-based management (EBM). Loop analysis is an underutilized qualitative tool for EBM uses information on foodweb links (e.g. predator–prey interactions) and resulting pathways (cycles) through predict responses press perturbations. We explore utility loop related actions: increasing crab abundance reducing eutrophication in coastal foodwebs. found crab-related actions propagated foodweb, with...
DAO Diseases of Aquatic Organisms Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout JournalEditorsSpecials 87:183-197 (2009) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/dao02114 Influence nutritional state on progression and severity mycobacteriosis in striped bass Morone saxatilis John M. Jacobs1,*, Matt R. Rhodes1, Ana Baya2, Renate Reimschuessel3, Howard Townsend4, Reginal Harrell5 1Center for Coastal Environmental Health...
We used a long-term population band-resight survey database, parallel reproduction and multistate mark-recapture analysis to assess the costs of reproduction, keystone concept life-history evolution, in Nazca boobies (Sula granti) from Punta Cevallos, Isla Española, Galápagos, Ecuador. eight years resight breeding data compare models that included sex- state-specific survival probabilities transition between reproductive states using models. Models effects were compared with lacking such...
There has been a proliferation of coupled social-ecological systems (SES) models created and published in recent years. However, the degree coupling between natural social varies widely across different is often function disciplinary background team conducting research. This manuscript examines developed for used by NOAA Fisheries support Ecosystem Based Management (EBFM) United States. It provides resource managers interdisciplinary scientists insights on strengths weaknesses most commonly...
As ecosystem-based fisheries management becomes more ingrained into the way agencies do business, a need for ecosystem and multispecies models arises. Yet ecosystems are complex, model uncertainty can be large. Model ensembles have historically been used in other disciplines to address uncertainty. To understand benefits limitations of (MMEs), cases where they United States issues reviewed. The include: (1) development ecological reference points Atlantic Menhaden, (2) creation time series...