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Partial exclusion of spawning Cyprinus carpio to improve coastal marsh habitat may come at the cost of increased carp population growth
Check out our new open-access paper in Ecological Modelling!
The invasive Common carp can have disastrous affects on coastal marsh habitats when the large carp enter the marsh from the connected lakes to spawn and forage. Some managers have tried to tackle this issue by putting up barriers to movement into the marshes. This tends to improve the marsh, but it can also improve spawning habitat for the carp. If you are not able to keep all the carp out, then the increase in the quality of the carp spawning habitat will actually increase the population growth rate of the carp population.
Adaptive Food Webs Book
I am happy to announce that Adaptive Food Webs: Stability and Transitions of Real and Model Ecosystems is now available.
Back in 2013 I participated in a conference in Germany where several scientists working on food web research met, discussed, and in the end produced this great book. This conference happens approximately every 10 years and was first held in 1982.
I was lucky enough to participate in two chapters in the book:
Including the life cycle in food webs
Authors: Karin A. Nilsson, Amanda Caskenette, Christian Guill, Martin Hartvig and Floor H. Soudijn
Structural instability of food webs and food-web models and its implications for management
Authors: Axel G. Rossberg, Amanda Caskenette, and Louis-Felix Bersier
Is it ever okay to fish for threatened species?
Check out my new plain language review of whether or not angling can be a part of the conservation of threatened species.
Do we need to consider meta-population structure in recovery efforts?
I have started contributing “plain language” reviews of peer-reviewed scientific articles that may be of interest to fly-anglers to a local fly-fishing website.
Check out my first article posted today, I hope this will be a regular occurrence.
Six degrees of Brook Trout: How connected are brook trout populations across streams?
Back in Canada
Okay, this is a little late, but I have started working back in Canada as an Aquatic Science Biologist for Fisheries and Oceans Canada. I am settled into my role now, I started in February, and am well on my way to completing my first recovery potential modelling report for a species at risk.
Long Island Sound Trawl – Searching for Tautog
I was lucky enough to spend a day in May on a trawl on Long Island Sound. Several species were trapped. My main interest was in meeting some Tautog. DEEP performs trawls on the sound each year gathering samples and data for use in various studies. Continue Reading