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  • Nature Publishing Group (NPG)  (13)
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    Collaboration: A problem shared (2013)
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    Publication Date: 2013-07-11
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Walker, Cameron -- England -- Nature. 2013 Jul 4;499(7456):115-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23841144" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Authorship ; Biodiversity ; Congresses as Topic ; *Cooperative Behavior ; Ecology/education ; *Education, Graduate ; Fisheries ; *Group Processes ; International Cooperation ; Multicenter Studies as Topic ; Research Personnel/*education ; Research Report ; Statistics as Topic
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Habitat damage, marine reserves, and the value of spatial management (2013)
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Applications 23 (2013): 959–971, doi:10.1890/12-0447.1.
    Description: The biological benefits of marine reserves have garnered favor in the conservation community, but “no-take” reserve implementation is complicated by the economic interests of fishery stakeholders. There are now a number of studies examining the conditions under which marine reserves can provide both economic and ecological benefits. A potentially important reality of fishing that these studies overlook is that fishing can damage the habitat of the target stock. Here, we construct an equilibrium bioeconomic model that incorporates this habitat damage and show that the designation of marine reserves, coupled with the implementation of a tax on fishing effort, becomes both biologically and economically favorable as habitat sensitivity increases. We also study the effects of varied degrees of spatial control on fisheries management. Together, our results provide further evidence for the potential monetary and biological value of spatial management, and the possibility of a mutually beneficial resolution to the fisherman–conservationist marine reserve designation dilemma.
    Description: M. G. Neubert acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation (DMS-0532378, OCE-1031256) and a Thomas B. Wheeler Award for Ocean Science and Society. H. V. Moeller acknowledges support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This research is based in part on work supported by Award No. USA 00002 made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
    Keywords: Bioeconomics ; Destructive fishing practices ; Fisheries ; Habitat damage ; Marine protected areas ; Marine reserves ; Optimal control ; Optimal harvesting ; Spatial management
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    Recovery from disturbance requires resynchronization of ecosystem nutrient cycles (2013)
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2013. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Applications 23 (2013): 621–642, doi:10.1890/12-0751.1.
    Description: Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are tightly cycled in most terrestrial ecosystems, with plant uptake more than 10 times higher than the rate of supply from deposition and weathering. This near-total dependence on recycled nutrients and the stoichiometric constraints on resource use by plants and microbes mean that the two cycles have to be synchronized such that the ratio of N:P in plant uptake, litterfall, and net mineralization are nearly the same. Disturbance can disrupt this synchronization if there is a disproportionate loss of one nutrient relative to the other. We model the resynchronization of N and P cycles following harvest of a northern hardwood forest. In our simulations, nutrient loss in the harvest is small relative to postharvest losses. The low N:P ratio of harvest residue results in a preferential release of P and retention of N. The P release is in excess of plant requirements and P is lost from the active ecosystem cycle through secondary mineral formation and leaching early in succession. Because external P inputs are small, the resynchronization of the N and P cycles later in succession is achieved by a commensurate loss of N. Through succession, the ecosystem undergoes alternating periods of N limitation, then P limitation, and eventually co-limitation as the two cycles resynchronize. However, our simulations indicate that the overall rate and extent of recovery is limited by P unless a mechanism exists either to prevent the P loss early in succession (e.g., P sequestration not stoichiometrically constrained by N) or to increase the P supply to the ecosystem later in succession (e.g., biologically enhanced weathering). Our model provides a heuristic perspective from which to assess the resynchronization among tightly cycled nutrients and the effect of that resynchronization on recovery of ecosystems from disturbance.
    Description: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0108960, 0716067, 0949420, 0949324, 0949317, and 0949854.
    Keywords: Co-limitation ; Disturbance ; Ecosystem succession ; N:P ratio ; Nutrient cycles ; Nutrient limitation ; Resource optimization ; Stoichiometric constraints ; Terrestrial ecosystem cycling
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    Test lakes face closure (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Hoag, Hannah -- England -- Nature. 2012 Aug 23;488(7412):437-8. doi: 10.1038/488437a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22914141" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Animals, Genetically Modified ; Climate Change ; Ecosystem ; Environmental Policy ; Environmental Restoration and Remediation ; Fisheries ; Food, Genetically Modified/adverse effects ; Freshwater Biology/*economics/trends ; *Lakes/analysis/chemistry/microbiology ; Metal Nanoparticles/adverse effects/toxicity ; Ontario ; Phosphorus/adverse effects/toxicity ; Silver/adverse effects/toxicity ; Toxicology/*economics/trends ; Universities/organization & administration ; Water Pollutants/adverse effects/*toxicity
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    Marine protected areas: Settle discord over the Southern Ocean (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-12-14
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Trathan, Philip N -- England -- Nature. 2012 Dec 13;492(7428):186. doi: 10.1038/492186b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23235865" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Antarctic Regions ; *Conservation of Natural Resources ; Fisheries ; *Oceans and Seas
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    An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2012-08-17
    Description: The ocean plays a critical role in supporting human well-being, from providing food, livelihoods and recreational opportunities to regulating the global climate. Sustainable management aimed at maintaining the flow of a broad range of benefits from the ocean requires a comprehensive and quantitative method to measure and monitor the health of coupled human-ocean systems. We created an index comprising ten diverse public goals for a healthy coupled human-ocean system and calculated the index for every coastal country. Globally, the overall index score was 60 out of 100 (range 36-86), with developed countries generally performing better than developing countries, but with notable exceptions. Only 5% of countries scored higher than 70, whereas 32% scored lower than 50. The index provides a powerful tool to raise public awareness, direct resource management, improve policy and prioritize scientific research.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Halpern, Benjamin S -- Longo, Catherine -- Hardy, Darren -- McLeod, Karen L -- Samhouri, Jameal F -- Katona, Steven K -- Kleisner, Kristin -- Lester, Sarah E -- O'Leary, Jennifer -- Ranelletti, Marla -- Rosenberg, Andrew A -- Scarborough, Courtney -- Selig, Elizabeth R -- Best, Benjamin D -- Brumbaugh, Daniel R -- Chapin, F Stuart -- Crowder, Larry B -- Daly, Kendra L -- Doney, Scott C -- Elfes, Cristiane -- Fogarty, Michael J -- Gaines, Steven D -- Jacobsen, Kelsey I -- Karrer, Leah Bunce -- Leslie, Heather M -- Neeley, Elizabeth -- Pauly, Daniel -- Polasky, Stephen -- Ris, Bud -- St Martin, Kevin -- Stone, Gregory S -- Sumaila, U Rashid -- Zeller, Dirk -- England -- Nature. 2012 Aug 30;488(7413):615-20. doi: 10.1038/nature11397.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St Suite 300, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA. halpern@nceas.ucsb.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22895186" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*statistics & numerical data ; *Ecosystem ; Environmental Monitoring/*methods ; Environmental Policy ; Fisheries ; Geography ; Human Activities/standards/statistics & numerical data ; *Internationality ; Marine Biology/*methods ; Oceanography/*methods ; Oceans and Seas ; Recreation ; *Seawater ; Water Pollution/analysis
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    Absolute probability estimates of lethal vessel strikes to North Atlantic right whales in Roseway Basin, Scotian Shelf (2012)
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2012. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Applications 22 (2012): 2021–2033, doi:10.1890/11-1841.1.
    Description: Vessel strikes are the primary source of known mortality for the endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Multi-institutional efforts to reduce mortality associated with vessel strikes include vessel-routing amendments such as the International Maritime Organization voluntary “area to be avoided” (ATBA) in the Roseway Basin right whale feeding habitat on the southwestern Scotian Shelf. Though relative probabilities of lethal vessel strikes have been estimated and published, absolute probabilities remain unknown. We used a modeling approach to determine the regional effect of the ATBA, by estimating reductions in the expected number of lethal vessel strikes. This analysis differs from others in that it explicitly includes a spatiotemporal analysis of real-time transits of vessels through a population of simulated, swimming right whales. Combining automatic identification system (AIS) vessel navigation data and an observationally based whale movement model allowed us to determine the spatial and temporal intersection of vessels and whales, from which various probability estimates of lethal vessel strikes are derived. We estimate one lethal vessel strike every 0.775–2.07 years prior to ATBA implementation, consistent with and more constrained than previous estimates of every 2–16 years. Following implementation, a lethal vessel strike is expected every 41 years. When whale abundance is held constant across years, we estimate that voluntary vessel compliance with the ATBA results in an 82% reduction in the per capita rate of lethal strikes; very similar to a previously published estimate of 82% reduction in the relative risk of a lethal vessel strike. The models we developed can inform decision-making and policy design, based on their ability to provide absolute, population-corrected, time-varying estimates of lethal vessel strikes, and they are easily transported to other regions and situations.
    Description: This research was supported by the Environment Canada Habitat Stewardship Programme, the Canadian Whale Institute, and R. K. Smedbol (St. Andrews Biological Station).
    Keywords: Absolute probability estimates ; Endangered whales ; Eubalaena glacialis ; Marine area closure ; Mortality reduction ; North Atlantic right whale ; Roseway Basin, Scotian Shelf ; Vessel routing ; Vessel strike
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    Troubled waters (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2011-12-14
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉England -- Nature. 2011 Dec 7;480(7376):151-2. doi: 10.1038/480151b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22158202" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Conservation of Natural Resources/economics/legislation & ; jurisprudence/methods/statistics & numerical data ; *Ecology/economics/legislation & jurisprudence/methods/statistics & numerical ; data ; *Ecosystem ; Fisheries ; Government Regulation ; Marine Biology/economics/methods ; Oceans and Seas ; *Seawater
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    Dam controversy: Remaking the Mekong (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2011-10-21
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vaidyanathan, Gayathri -- England -- Nature. 2011 Oct 19;478(7369):305-7. doi: 10.1038/478305a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22012370" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Asia, Southeastern ; Ecosystem ; Fisheries ; Humans ; Power Plants ; *Rivers ; *Water Movements
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    Plans for marine protection highlight science gap (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2011-01-14
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cressey, Daniel -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jan 13;469(7329):146. doi: 10.1038/469146a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21228848" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Aquatic Organisms ; Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*methods ; Ecology/*methods ; Fisheries ; Fishes/physiology ; International Cooperation ; Marine Biology ; Oceans and Seas ; *Wilderness
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    Transient dynamics of an altered large marine ecosystem (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2011-07-29
    Description: Overfishing of large-bodied benthic fishes and their subsequent population collapses on the Scotian Shelf of Canada's east coast and elsewhere resulted in restructuring of entire food webs now dominated by planktivorous, forage fish species and macroinvertebrates. Despite the imposition of strict management measures in force since the early 1990s, the Scotian Shelf ecosystem has not reverted back to its former structure. Here we provide evidence of the transient nature of this ecosystem and its current return path towards benthic fish species domination. The prolonged duration of the altered food web, and its current recovery, was and is being governed by the oscillatory, runaway consumption dynamics of the forage fish complex. These erupting forage species, which reached biomass levels 900% greater than those prevalent during the pre-collapse years of large benthic predators, are now in decline, having outstripped their zooplankton food supply. This dampening, and the associated reduction in the intensity of predation, was accompanied by lagged increases in species abundances at both lower and higher trophic levels, first witnessed in zooplankton and then in large-bodied predators, all consistent with a return towards the earlier ecosystem structure. We conclude that the reversibility of perturbed ecosystems can occur and that this bodes well for other collapsed fisheries.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Frank, Kenneth T -- Petrie, Brian -- Fisher, Jonathan A D -- Leggett, William C -- England -- Nature. 2011 Jul 27;477(7362):86-9. doi: 10.1038/nature10285.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Ocean Sciences Division, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 4A2, Canada. kenneth.frank@dfo-mpo.gc.ca〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21796120" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Aquatic Organisms/*physiology ; Atlantic Ocean ; Biomass ; *Ecosystem ; Fisheries ; Fishes/*physiology ; Population Density ; Time Factors ; Zooplankton/physiology
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    Is there a decline in marine phytoplankton? (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2011-04-15
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McQuatters-Gollop, Abigail -- Reid, Philip C -- Edwards, Martin -- Burkill, Peter H -- Castellani, Claudia -- Batten, Sonia -- Gieskes, Winfried -- Beare, Doug -- Bidigare, Robert R -- Head, Erica -- Johnson, Rod -- Kahru, Mati -- Koslow, J Anthony -- Pena, Angelica -- England -- Nature. 2011 Apr 14;472(7342):E6-7; discussion E8-9. doi: 10.1038/nature09950.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL1 2PB, UK. abiqua@sahfos.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490625" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Aquatic Organisms/growth & development/*isolation & purification/metabolism ; Atlantic Ocean ; Bias (Epidemiology) ; Biomass ; Chlorophyll/analysis ; Data Collection/methods ; *Ecosystem ; Fisheries ; Phytoplankton/growth & development/*isolation & purification/metabolism ; Reproducibility of Results ; Seawater/chemistry/microbiology ; Time Factors
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    Antarctic penguin response to habitat change as Earth's troposphere reaches 2°C above preindustrial levels (2011)
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Monographs 80 (2010): 49–66, doi:10.1890/08-2289.1.
    Description: We assess the response of pack ice penguins, Emperor (Aptenodytes forsteri) and Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), to habitat variability and, then, by modeling habitat alterations, the qualitative changes to their populations, size and distribution, as Earth's average tropospheric temperature reaches 2°C above preindustrial levels (ca. 1860), the benchmark set by the European Union in efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. First, we assessed models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) on penguin performance duplicating existing conditions in the Southern Ocean. We chose four models appropriate for gauging changes to penguin habitat: GFDL-CM2.1, GFDL-CM2.0, MIROC3.2(hi-res), and MRI-CGCM2.3.2a. Second, we analyzed the composited model ENSEMBLE to estimate the point of 2°C warming (2025–2052) and the projected changes to sea ice coverage (extent, persistence, and concentration), sea ice thickness, wind speeds, precipitation, and air temperatures. Third, we considered studies of ancient colonies and sediment cores and some recent modeling, which indicate the (space/time) large/centennial-scale penguin response to habitat limits of all ice or no ice. Then we considered results of statistical modeling at the temporal interannual-decadal scale in regard to penguin response over a continuum of rather complex, meso- to large-scale habitat conditions, some of which have opposing and others interacting effects. The ENSEMBLE meso/decadal-scale output projects a marked narrowing of penguins' zoogeographic range at the 2°C point. Colonies north of 70° S are projected to decrease or disappear: 50% of Emperor colonies (40% of breeding population) and 75% of Adélie colonies (70% of breeding population), but limited growth might occur south of 73° S. Net change would result largely from positive responses to increase in polynya persistence at high latitudes, overcome by decreases in pack ice cover at lower latitudes and, particularly for Emperors, ice thickness. Adélie Penguins might colonize new breeding habitat where concentrated pack ice diverges and/or disintegrating ice shelves expose coastline. Limiting increase will be decreased persistence of pack ice north of the Antarctic Circle, as this species requires daylight in its wintering areas. Adélies would be affected negatively by increasing snowfall, predicted to increase in certain areas owing to intrusions of warm, moist marine air due to changes in the Polar Jet Stream.
    Description: This project was funded by the World Wildlife Fund and the National Science Foundation, NSF grant OPP-0440643 (D. G. Ainley), and a Marie-Curie Fellowship to S. Jenouvrier.
    Keywords: Adelie penguin ; Antarctica ; Climate change ; Climate modeling ; Emperor Penguin ; Habitat optimum ; Sea ice ; 2°C warming
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    Heterotrophic respiration in disturbed forests : a review with examples from North America (2011)
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    Description: Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2011. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (2011): G00K04, doi:10.1029/2010JG001495.
    Description: Heterotrophic respiration (RH) is a major process releasing carbon to the atmosphere and is essential to understanding carbon dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems. Here we review what is known about this flux as related to forest disturbance using examples from North America. The global RH flux from soils has been estimated at 53–57 Pg C yr−1, but this does not include contributions from other sources (i.e., dead wood, heart-rots). Disturbance-related inputs likely account for 20–50% of all RH losses in forests, and disturbances lead to a reorganization of ecosystem carbon pools that influences how RH changes over succession. Multiple controls on RH related to climate, the material being decomposed, and the decomposers involved have been identified, but how each potentially interacts with disturbance remains an open question. An emerging paradigm of carbon dynamics suggests the possibility of multiple periods of carbon sinks and sources following disturbance; a large contributing factor is the possibility that postdisturbance RH does not always follow the monotonic decline assumed in the classic theory. Without a better understanding and modeling of RH and its controlling factors, it will be difficult to estimate, forecast, understand, and manage carbon balances of regions in which disturbance frequency and severity are changing. Meeting this challenge will require (1) improved field data on processes and stores, (2) an improved understanding of the physiological and environmental controls of RH, and (3) a more formal analysis of how model structure influences the RH responses that can be predicted.
    Description: Support was provided by the U.S. Geologic Survey and the Kaye and Ward Richardson Endowment.
    Keywords: Carbon dynamics ; Decomposition ; Disturbance ; Ecosystems
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    Fire increases invasive spread of Molinia caerulea mainly through changes in demographic parameters (2011)
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    Description: Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2005. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Applications 15 (2005): 2097–2108, doi:10.1890/04-1762.
    Description: We investigated the effects of fire on population growth rate and invasive spread of the perennial tussock grass Molinia caerulea. During the last decades, this species has invaded heathland communities in Western Europe, replacing typical heathland species such as Calluna vulgaris and Erica tetralix. M. caerulea is considered a major threat to heathland conservation. In 1996, a large and unintended fire destroyed almost one-third of the Kalmthoutse Heide, a large heathland area in northern Belgium. To study the impact of this fire on the population dynamics and invasive spread of M. caerulea, permanent monitoring plots were established both in burned and unburned heathland. The fate of each M. caerulea individual in these plots was monitored over four years (1997–2000). Patterns of seed dispersal were inferred from a seed germination experiment using soil cores sampled one month after seed rain at different distances from seed-producing plants. Based on these measures, we calculated projected rates of spread for M. caerulea in burned and unburned heathland. Elasticity and sensitivity analyses were used to determine vital rates that contributed most to population growth rate, and invasion speed. Invasion speed was, on average, three times larger in burned compared to unburned plots. Dispersal distances on the other hand, were not significantly different between burned and unburned plots indicating that differences in invasive spread were mainly due to differences in demography. Elasticities for fecundity and growth of seedlings and juveniles were higher for burned than for unburned plots, whereas elasticities for survival were higher in unburned plots. Finally, a life table response experiment (LTRE) analysis revealed that the effect of fire was mainly contributed by increases in sexual reproduction (seed production and germination) and growth of seedlings and juveniles. Our results clearly showed increased invasive spread of M. caerulea after fire, and call for active management guidelines to prevent further encroachment of the species and to reduce the probability of large, accidental fires in the future. Mowing of resprouted plants before flowering is the obvious management tactic to halt massive invasive spread of the species after fire.
    Description: This work was supported by the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO) to HJ, the U.S. National Science foundation (DEB-0235692, OCE-0083976), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (R-8290891) to MGN.
    Keywords: Disturbance ; Elasticity ; Fire ; Integrodifference equations ; Invasive spread ; LTRE ; Matrix population model ; Molinia caerulea ; Sensitivity
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    A model for energetics and bioaccumulation in marine mammals with applications to the right whale (2011)
    Ecological Society of America
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-25
    Description: Author Posting. © Ecological Society of America, 2007. This article is posted here by permission of Ecological Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Ecological Applications 17 (2007): 2233–2250, doi:10.1890/06-0426.1.
    Description: We present a dynamic energy budget (DEB) model for marine mammals, coupled with a pharmacokinetic model of a lipophilic persistent toxicant. Inputs to the model are energy availability and lipid-normalized toxicant concentration in the environment. The model predicts individual growth, reproduction, bioaccumulation, and transfer of energy and toxicant from mothers to their young. We estimated all model parameters for the right whale; with these parameters, reduction in energy availability increases the age at first parturition, increases intervals between reproductive events, reduces the organisms' ability to buffer seasonal fluctuations, and increases its susceptibility to temporal shifts in the seasonal peak of energy availability. Reduction in energy intake increases bioaccumulation and the amount of toxicant transferred from mother to each offspring. With high energy availability, the toxicant load of offspring decreases with birth order. Contrary to expectations, this ordering may be reversed with lower energy availability. Although demonstrated with parameters for the right whale, these relationships between energy intake and energetics and pharmacokinetics of organisms are likely to be much more general. Results specific to right whales include energy assimilation estimates for the North Atlantic and southern right whale, influences of history of energy availability on reproduction, and a relationship between ages at first parturition and calving intervals. Our model provides a platform for further analyses of both individual and population responses of marine mammals to pollution, and to changes in energy availability, including those likely to arise through climate change.
    Description: This research was supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB-9973518 and OCE-0083976), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (R-82908901-0), NOAA grant NA03NMF4720491, and the WHOI/MIT Joint Program in Oceanography.
    Keywords: Bioaccumulation ; Dynamic energy budget (DEB) ; Model ; Energy intake and utilization ; Eubalaena glacialis ; Lipophilic ; Marine mammal ; North Atlantic right whale growth and reproduction ; PCB ; Toxicant transfer
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    Water resources: Beyond infrastructure (2010)
    Nature Publishing Group (NPG)
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Palmer, Margaret A -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):534-5. doi: 10.1038/467534a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20881999" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; *Conservation of Natural Resources/methods/statistics & numerical data ; Fisheries ; *Internationality ; Peru ; Population Density ; *Rivers ; *Water Supply
    Print ISSN: 0028-0836
    Electronic ISSN: 1476-4687
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Water: act now to restore river health (2010)
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    Publication Date: 2010-11-12
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Dugan, Patrick -- Allison, Edward H -- England -- Nature. 2010 Nov 11;468(7321):173. doi: 10.1038/468173b.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21068813" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/*methods ; Fisheries ; Food Supply/statistics & numerical data ; Internationality ; Rivers/*chemistry ; Vietnam ; Water Supply/*standards
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Marine biology: Out of the blue (2010)
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Cressey, Daniel -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):514-5. doi: 10.1038/467514a.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20881987" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/methods/trends ; *Data Collection/economics ; Fisheries ; *Marine Biology/economics ; Population Density ; Time Factors
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    Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity (2010)
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    Publication Date: 2010-10-01
    Description: Protecting the world's freshwater resources requires diagnosing threats over a broad range of scales, from global to local. Here we present the first worldwide synthesis to jointly consider human and biodiversity perspectives on water security using a spatial framework that quantifies multiple stressors and accounts for downstream impacts. We find that nearly 80% of the world's population is exposed to high levels of threat to water security. Massive investment in water technology enables rich nations to offset high stressor levels without remedying their underlying causes, whereas less wealthy nations remain vulnerable. A similar lack of precautionary investment jeopardizes biodiversity, with habitats associated with 65% of continental discharge classified as moderately to highly threatened. The cumulative threat framework offers a tool for prioritizing policy and management responses to this crisis, and underscores the necessity of limiting threats at their source instead of through costly remediation of symptoms in order to assure global water security for both humans and freshwater biodiversity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Vorosmarty, C J -- McIntyre, P B -- Gessner, M O -- Dudgeon, D -- Prusevich, A -- Green, P -- Glidden, S -- Bunn, S E -- Sullivan, C A -- Liermann, C Reidy -- Davies, P M -- England -- Nature. 2010 Sep 30;467(7315):555-61. doi: 10.1038/nature09440.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉The Environmental CrossRoads Initiative, City University of New York, The City College of New York, New York, New York 10035, USA. contact@riverthreat.net〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20882010" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Biodiversity ; Conservation of Natural Resources/methods/*statistics & numerical data ; Fisheries ; Geography ; *Internationality ; Population Density ; *Rivers ; *Water Supply
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