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Understanding the population consequences of disturbance

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
produzione e cattura

RIASSUNTO

Abstract

Managing the nonlethal effects of disturbance on wildlife populations has been a long‐term goal for decision makers, managers, and ecologists, and assessment of these effects is currently required by European Union and United States legislation. However, robust assessment of these effects is challenging. The management of human activities that have nonlethal effects on wildlife is a specific example of a fundamental ecological problem: how to understand the population‐level consequences of changes in the behavior or physiology of individual animals that are caused by external stressors. In this study, we review recent applications of a conceptual framework for assessing and predicting these consequences for marine mammal populations. We explore the range of models that can be used to formalize the approach and we identify critical research gaps. We also provide a decision tree that can be used to select the most appropriate model structure given the available data. Synthesis and applications: The implementation of this framework has moved the focus of discussion of the management of nonlethal disturbances on marine mammal populations away from a rhetorical debate about defining negligible impact and toward a quantitative understanding of long‐term population‐level effects. Here we demonstrate the framework's general applicability to other marine and terrestrial systems and show how it can support integrated modeling of the proximate and ultimate mechanisms that regulate trait‐mediated, indirect interactions in ecological communities, that is, the nonconsumptive effects of a predator or stressor on a species' behavior, physiology, or life history.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 12/09/2018

AUTORI

PIROTTA ENRICO
BOOTH CORMAC G
COSTA DANIEL P
FLEISHMAN ERICA
KRAUS SCOTT D
LUSSEAU DAVID
MORETTI DAVID
NEW LESLIE F
SCHICK ROBERT S
SCHWARZ LISA K
SIMMONS SAMANTHA E
THOMAS LEN
TYACK PETER L
WEISE MICHAEL J
WELLS RANDALL S
HARWOOD JOHN

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

Anderson‐Cabot Center for Ocean Life New England Aquarium Boston Massachusetts
DEPT MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS WASHINGTON STATE UNIV VANCOUVER WASHINGTON
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES UNIV COLLEGE CORK CORK IRELAND
SMRU CONSULTING NEW TECH CTR ST ANDREWS UK
DEPT ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY UNIV CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA
DEPT ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY UNIV CALIFORNIA DAVIS CALIFORNIA
DEPT FISH WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION BIOLOGY COLORADO STATE UNIV FORT COLLINS COLORADO
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNIV ABERDEEN ABERDEEN UK
NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CTR NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND
DUKE UNIV
CTR RSCH INTO ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING UNIV ST ANDREWS ST ANDREWS UK
INST MARINE SCIENCES UNIV CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA
MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION BETHESDA MARYLAND
SEA MAMMAL RSCH UNIT SCOTTISH OCEANS INST SCHOOL OF BIOLOGY UNIV ST ANDREWS ST ANDREWS UK
OFFICE OF NAVAL RSCH MARINE MAMMAL & BIOLOGY PROGRAM ARLINGTON VIRGINIA
CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOC SARASOTA DOLPHIN RSCH PROGRAM

RIVISTA

Ecology and Evolution, 8(19), 9934-9946

IMPACT FACTOR

2,540

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