A5033323051- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Coastal and Marine Management
- American Environmental and Regional History
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Aquaculture Nutrition and Growth
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
2009-2024
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
2019-2023
University of California, Davis
2007-2010
University of California, Santa Barbara
2003
SUMMARY No-take marine reserves are widely recognized as an effective conservation tool for protecting resources. Despite considerable empirical evidence that abundance and biomass of fished species increase within reserve boundaries, the potential to provide fisheries benefits adjacent waters remains heavily debated. This paper uses statistical population models evaluate published data on adult spillover from shows is a common phenomenon respond positively protection, but at relatively...
Throughout the world "fishing line" is a frequent harvesting tactic in communities where no-take marine reserves are designated. This practice of concentrating fishing effort at boundary reserve predicated upon principle spillover, net export stock from to surrounding unprotected waters. We explore consequences and optimality line using spatially explicit theoretical model. show that line: (1) part optimal distribution near with mobile species regardless cooperation level among harvesters;...
Species inhabiting deep-sea hydrothermal vents are strongly influenced by the geological setting, as it provides chemical-rich fluids supporting food web, creates patchwork of seafloor habitat, and generates catastrophic disturbances that can eradicate entire communities. The patches vent habitat host a network communities (a metacommunity) connected dispersal planktonic larvae. dynamics metacommunity not only birth rates, death rates interactions populations at local site, but also regional...
Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape is rapidly emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance marine management, biodiversity conservation, restoration. While important progress in this field has been made past decade, there no coherent prioritisation of key research questions help set future agenda for seascape ecology. We used a 2-stage modified Delphi method solicit applied from academic experts ecology then asked...
A common goal among fisheries science professionals, stakeholders, and rights holders is to ensure the persistence resilience of vibrant fish populations sustainable, equitable in diverse aquatic ecosystems, from small headwater streams offshore pelagic waters. Achieving this requires a complex intersection management, recognition interconnections people, place, that govern these tightly coupled socioecological sociotechnical systems. The World Fisheries Congress (WFC) convenes every four...
Abstract Although a consensus in marine science is developing on the need to adopt ecosystem‐based fishery management, few studies try quantify context‐specific gains from implementing it. Using multi‐species bioeconomic model for Caribbean reef community, we determine optimal harvesting rates predator and prey species ask how this more comprehensive optimization differs traditional single‐species approaches. We also identify tradeoffs when objective of manager includes nonfishing values....
Abstract While the science supporting fisheries management has generally been dominated by natural sciences, there a growing recognition that managing essentially means economic systems. Indeed, over past seven decades, ideas and insights have increasingly come to play role in policy. As an illustration of this, International Council for Exploration Sea (ICES) actively seeking expand scope its scientific expertise beyond sciences [another inter-governmental marine organization which done...
Recent empirical studies have demonstrated that human activities such as fishing can strongly affect the natural capital and services provided by tropical seascapes. However, policies to mitigate anthropogenic impacts also alter food web structure interactions, regardless of whether regulations are aimed at single or multiple species, with possible unexpected consequences for ecosystems their associated services. Complex community response management interventions been highlighted in...
Abstract No‐take marine protected areas (MPAs) typically lead to population abundances that are much more spatially heterogeneous compared conventional fisheries management. Higher inside reserves may sustain regional populations through spillover of larvae, but this induced spatial heterogeneity can also have undesirable consequences. Displacing fishing effort into a smaller area offset larval export from MPAs and locally reduce within fished by intensifying per area. Using novel community...
Our understanding of complex marine ecosystem dynamics is often hindered by significant uncertainties and issues representativeness associated with models observations. Both observations provide a limited view real-world complexities depending on what specifically measured or simulated. When used together, they the ability to gain broader important ecological processes. How properly integrate while utilizing advantages both approaches remains challenge. In this paper, we draw attention...
We develop a coupled economic‐metacommunity model to investigate the trade‐off between diversity and profit for multispecies systems. The keeps track of presence or absence species in habitat patches. With this approach, it becomes (relatively) simple include more than can typically be included models that population density. use patch‐occupancy framework understand how biodiversity are impacted by (1) community assembly, (2) pricing structures value equally unequally, (3) implementation...
The Working Group on Maritime Systems (WGMARS) is a forum for interdisciplinary perspectives ecosystem science, advice, and governance. It engages with maritime stakeholders from across the North Atlantic to take into consideration better understand their perspectives. From 2020-2022 WGMARS focused methodological, operational, contextual, science management aspects enabling ecosystem-based management/governance. Topics addressed in this report include ways that behavioural economics could...