A study done to better understand what inter-model variation will improve our understanding of the impact of climate change on the ocean and lower trophic level (LTL) organisms and ability to project fisheries and other ecosystem services into the future,
Using coral reefs as a model system, here we compare how different survey methods likely captures different taxa. Thus multiple targeted assays can be used to provide the greatest estimates of metazoan and macroalgal richness.
Despite fishing trip cost being an important element in evaluating performance of fisheries, low observe coverage often results in limited trip-level data. This article introduces a model to estimate and predict the fishing trip costs of unsampled trips.
Despite the use of environmental participatory modeling (PM) in decision making and that many PM case studies have been published, few efforts have sought to systematically describe and understand dominant PM processes or establish best practices for PM.
We address the challenges of models and analyses for ecosystem-based fisheries management by presenting a case study of a process to identify management priorities and assess potential models and analyses that could help the identified policy concerns.
This study presents a revised bioeconomic model that bridges the gap between fishery management goals, and the realities of fisheries by improving Schaefer’s (1957) bioeconomic model to derive maximum economic yield (MEY).