Predicting climate effects on Pacific sardine
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: For many marine species and habitats, climate change and overfishing present a double threat. To manage marine resources effectively, it is necessary to adapt management to changes in the physical environment. Simple relationships between environmental conditions and fish abundance have long been used in both fisheries and fishery management. In many cases, however, physical, biological, and human variables feed back on each other. For these systems, associations between variables can change as the system evolves in time. This can obscure relationships between population dynamics and environmental variability, undermining our ability to forecast changes in populations tied to physical processes. Here we present a methodology for identifying physical forcing variables based on nonlinear forecasting and show how the method provides a predictive understanding of the influence of physical forcing on Pacific sardine.
Institutions: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Northeast Fisheries Science Center, National Taiwan University, Boston University, Conservation International, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center
Language: English
Subfield: Aquatic Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDG: Life below water
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1998653339