Status of global fisheries
**Manuel Berrio has provided an excellent contemporary bibliography on the status of global fisheries which we’ve uploaded in a separate post on this page**
Blaustein R. 2016. United Nations seeks to protect high-seas biodiversity. Bioscience 66:713-719.
-Jim Lassoie provided this recent policy update on movements to protect high seas habitats with international legally binding agreements.
Essington TE, Beaudreau AH, Wiedenmann J. 2006. Fishing through marine food webs. PNAS 103: 3171-3175.
-An important paper examining different mechanisms for declining mean trophic level of global catches.
Gutierrez NL, Hilborn R, Defeo O. 2011. Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries. Nature 470: 386-389.
-A provocative piece examining the role governance structure plays in sustainable fisheries.
Hanna SS. 1997. The new frontier of American fisheries governance. Ecological Economics 20:221-233.
– An excellent perspectives piece on the institutional inertia behind fisheries management in the U.S.; relevant to many fisheries governance structures globally.
Larkin PA. 1977. An epitaph for the concept of maximum sustainable yield. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 106: 1-11.
-As early as 1977, a warning piece on the dangers of targeting maximum sustainable yield as a management target.
Rudd MB, Branch TA. 2016. Does unreported catch lead to overfishing? Fish and Fisheries Early View.
-Erin Larson provided this reference as highly relevant to catch reporting discussions we’ve had during class.
Samhouri JF, Levin PS, Ainsworth CH. 2010. Identifying thresholds for ecosystem-based management. PLoS ONE 5: e8907.
Sumaila UR, et al. Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing. Scientific Reports 5, 8481.
– S. Morreale recommends this paper as providing perspective on high seas straddling stocks fisheries management.
Ecosystem reference baselines
**Manuel Berrio provided an expanded bibliography with additional contemporary readings on novel and designed ecosystems, available here.
Brand S. 2015. Rethinking extinction: the idea that we are edging up to a mass extinction is not just wrong–it’s a recipe for panic and paralysis. aeon.co online article. [last accessed Oct. 17, 2016]
-Angela Fuller provided this article as a novel perspective on the interpretation and communication of extinction rates over the Anthropocene.
Ricketts TH et al. 2016. Disaggregating the evidence linking biodiversity and ecosystem services. Nature Communications article 13106.
-Erin Larson provided this new paper as a provocative empirical analysis of the complicated relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Rohde RA, Muller RA. 2005. Cycles in fossil diversity. Nature 434, 208-210.
Walter E. 2014. Patterns of diversification and extinction. In: Henke W, Tattersall I, (Eds.) Handbook of Paleoanthropology, Springer, New York, pp. 351-415.
-Manuel Berrio recommends these two citations on speciation rates across time scales of hundreds of millions of years.
Steffen W, Richardson K, Rockström J., et al. 2015. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science, 347(6223), 1259855.
-Bethany Jorgensen recommends this piece — an important pragmatic approach for managing global anthropogenic impacts within the bounds of what earth’s ecosystems can support.
Monetization of nature
Costanza R, d’Arge R, de Groot R, Farber S, Grasso M, et al. 1997. The value of the world’s ecosystem services and natural capital. Nature 387:253-260.
-Controversial initial attempt to value Earth’s ecosystem services
Planet Money. Episode 472: the one-page plan to fix global warming. National Public Radio, Planet Money podcast, available online.
-Katie Kaplan provided this interesting podcast where the authors explain a provocative idea to impose a carbon tax on individual citizens.
Rodewald, A 2016. Paris agreement is the catalyst for a clean global economy. Contributed article to thehill.com.
-Prof. Rodewald posted a popular article summarizing the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Yuan F, Mitchell M, Bohks B, Mullen K, Smith C. 2015. Long-term land use and land cover changes affected by the Conservation Reserve Program in the Minnesota River Valley. Journal of Geography and Geology 7:105-116.
-Article quantifying the habitat conversion outcomes associated with a long standing payment for ecosystem services scheme in the U.S. (conservation easements on agricultural land to promote fallow grass lands and wetlands).
Conservation triage
Navigating science, advocacy, and education
Anonymous. 2010. Biologist talks to statistician. Available online.
-Case study on communicating technical information.
Pielke RA. 2007. The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.