Supplemental information for poster presented by Caren Barceló at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, CA
Summary
We use age-structured population models to understand how fished populations respond to environmental variability. In general, fished populations exhibit greater variability than unfished populations, for two reasons: a) they are less dampened by density-dependent processes, and b) reproduction is concentrated into fewer ages, making it more likely that random events will ‘echo’ across generations. In this poster we share some preliminary analyses examining how no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) could reduce that variability by protecting part of the population from harvest. This is a potential example of how MPAs could provide resilience to environmental variability and climate change.
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Related papers
Botsford LW, White JW, Hastings A. 2019. Population Dynamics for Conservation. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
Nickols KJ, White JW, Malone D, Carr MH, Starr RM, Baskett ML, Hastings A, Botsford LW. 2019. Setting expectations for adaptive management of marine protected areas. Journal of Applied Ecology 56: 2376-2385
Botsford LW, Holland MD, Field JC, Hastings A. 2014. Cohort resonance: a significant component of fluctuations in recruitment, egg production, and catch of fished populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science 71: 2158-2170
Kaplan KA, Yamane L, Botsford LW, Baskett ML, Hastings A, Worden S, White JW. 2019. Setting expected timelines of fished population recovery for the adaptive management of a marine protected area network. Ecological Applications 29: e01949
White JW, Nickols KJ, Malone D, Carr MH, Starr RM, Cordoleani F, Baskett ML, Hastings A, Botsford LW. 2016. Methods for fitting state-space integral projection models to size-structured time series data to estimate unknown parameters. Ecological Applications 26: 2675-2692
Carr MH, White JW, Saarman EM, Lubchenco J, Milligan K, Caselle JE. 2019. Marine Protected Areas exemplify the evolution of science and policy. Oceanography 32:94-103. Special Issue on PISCO: Partnership for Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans
Easter EE, Adreani MS, Hamilton SL, Steele MS, Pang S, White JW. 2020. Influence of protogynous sex change on recovery of fish populations within marine protected areas. Ecological Applications, in press. DOI 10.1002/eap.2070
Botsford LW, White JW, Carr MH, Caselle JE. 2014. Marine protected areas in California, USA. In: Advances in Marine Biology: Marine Managed Areas and Fisheries, vol. 69. (Johnson ML and Sandell J, eds.). Elsevier, Oxford, UK, pp 203-249
White JW, Botsford LW, Hastings A, Baskett ML, Kaplan DM, Barnett LAK. 2013. Transient responses of fished populations to marine reserve establishment. Conservation Letters 6: 180-191
