A guide to ecosystem models and their environmental applications

WL Geary, M Bode, TS Doherty, EA Fulton… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Applied ecology has traditionally approached management problems through a simplified,
single-species lens. Repeated failures of single-species management have led us to a new …

Model averaging in ecology: A review of Bayesian, information‐theoretic, and tactical approaches for predictive inference

CF Dormann, JM Calabrese… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In ecology, the true causal structure for a given problem is often not known, and several
plausible models and thus model predictions exist. It has been claimed that using weighted …

Ecosystem models for fisheries management: finding the sweet spot

JS Collie, LW Botsford, A Hastings, IC Kaplan… - Fish and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Approaches to end-to-end ecosystem models

EA Fulton - Journal of Marine Systems, 2010 - Elsevier
Ever growing understanding of general ecological, biogeochemical and climatic processes
is allowing for the construction of a growing list of end-to-end models. While many of these …

Management strategy evaluation: a powerful tool for conservation?

N Bunnefeld, E Hoshino, EJ Milner-Gulland - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2011 - cell.com
The poor management of natural resources has led in many cases to the decline and
extirpation of populations. Recent advances in fisheries science could revolutionize …

Competing tradeoffs between increasing marine mammal predation and fisheries harvest of Chinook salmon

BE Chasco, IC Kaplan, AC Thomas… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Many marine mammal predators, particularly pinnipeds, have increased in abundance in
recent decades, generating new challenges for balancing human uses with recovery goals …

The art of ecosystem-based fishery management

MJ Fogarty - Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic …, 2014 - cdnsciencepub.com
The perception that ecosystem-based fishery management is too complex and poorly
defined remains a primary impediment to its broadscale adoption and implementation. Here …

Uncertainties in projecting climate-change impacts in marine ecosystems

MR Payne, M Barange, WWL Cheung… - ICES Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Projections of the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems are a key prerequisite
for the planning of adaptation strategies, yet they are inevitably associated with uncertainty …

Integrated ecological–economic fisheries models—Evaluation, review and challenges for implementation

JR Nielsen, E Thunberg, DS Holland… - Fish and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Marine ecosystems evolve under many interconnected and area‐specific pressures. To fulfil
society's intensifying and diversifying needs while ensuring ecologically sustainable …

Integrated modeling to evaluate climate change impacts on coupled social-ecological systems in Alaska

AB Hollowed, KK Holsman, AC Haynie… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Alaska Climate Integrated Modeling (ACLIM) project represents a comprehensive, multi-
year, interdisciplinary effort to characterize and project climate-driven changes to the eastern …