Metacommunity ecology addresses the situation where sets of local communities are
connected by the dispersal of a number of potentially interacting species. Aquatic systems …

Understanding marine regime shifts is important not only for ecology but also for developing
marine management that assures the provision of ecosystem services to humanity. While …

There is growing interest in assessing the effects of changing environmental conditions and
management actions on human wellbeing. A challenge is to translate social science …

The advent of an ecosystem‐based approach dramatically expanded the scope of fisheries
management, creating a critical need for new kinds of data and quantitative approaches that …

It is increasingly evident that climate change is having significant impacts on marine
ecosystems and dependent fisheries. Yet, translating climate science into management …

Integrated assessment requires examination of factors across biological hierarchies,
taxonomic groups, ocean-use sectors, management objectives, and scientific disciplines …

Management strategy evaluation (MSE) is a simulation approach that serves as a “light on
the hill”(Smith, 1994) to test options for marine management, monitoring, and assessment …

The perception that ecosystem-based fishery management is too complex and poorly
defined remains a primary impediment to its broadscale adoption and implementation. Here …

Risk assessments quantify the probability of undesirable events along with their
consequences. They are used to prioritize management interventions and assess tradeoffs …

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …