Supplemental information for the poster presented by Kerry Nickols at the Feb 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Summary
We use age- and size-structured population models to understand how fished populations respond to protection inside marine protected areas (MPAs). One generally expects population sizes to increase once fishing stops, but time lags due to demographics and year-to-year variation in larval recruitment can delay those increases. We present several examples of how population models can set expectations for detectable increases in fished populations will be detectable (and when they may never be detectable).
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Related papers
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
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
