To guarantee resilience of marine ecosystems -in an holistic perspective, inlcuding not only biosphere and biotope but also human activities- is essential for the Ocean and Earth health. For that purpose, we need to know (or try) the "behaviour" of the marine ecosystems under different potential scenarios of global change. Many works have been done on freshwater ecosystems, but the specific nature of marine systems requires specific ways to approach these studies. I would like to know does anyone know researchers or publications focused on this topic.
Try to google to Sharp, DG, Garcia, Laevastu, Klyashtorin, Caddy, to start with. See their REFERENCES, too. Good Luck!
My research group works on modelling similar questions to these. We use an end to end ecosystem called StrathE2E. If you google Michael Heath at University of Strathclyde you may find some useful references.
Good Luck!
Article Global sensitivity analysis of an end-to-end marine ecosyste...
Article Cascading ecological effects of eliminating fishery discards
Thank you very much for these references, I'll read it carefully.
Hi Rosario, one thing that I think must be involved in assessing marine resilience, and in particular effects on peoples and communities, is the inclusion of local ecological knowledge / traditional ecological knowledge. In many remote areas this is our best "historical" data, although assessing its utility and how to incorporate it is fraught with challenges. But I do think that this must be an important component. Cheers, Mark
I completely agree with you, traditional knowledge is a great repository to be studied. We tried in the past, but results were not as good as expected because much more time is needed to treat fishermen personally , know them and establish good relations. The handicap, once more, is the lack of human resources and funds that limit us to dedicate the necessary time and effort to deal with this challenge. Anyway, we have to try again. Thanks for the recommendation
About establishing good relations. From my personal experience of a consultancy to Ecuador on behalf of a German aid agency:
I was asked to find out why local fishermen don't avail themselves of the generous loans the agency channels to them through a local bank. The govt, the bank officials, and everybody else around was telling me that the fishermen are too conservative, boorish and stupid, etc., for the loans scheme. I was skeptical abt this info and went to talk to fishermen in their village. In spite of my broken half-Italian Spanish, we managed to communicate rather well, so I went with some of them to a local "cafe", where we set down and I asked for bier to everybody, which came in big bottles of the local strong brand. We set and talked a fisherman to fishermen - how and what we catch in the Med and how and what they do. We talked and drank. Slowly, we came to the subject of their economic problems. At a certain moment I asked: by the way, I hear that there're loans available at the bank, why don't you take them? And here the truth surfaced: corrupt bank officials wanted a share of 20% for themselves... As it appears, the fishermen were not "stupid" enough to go for this "business proposition".
If you ask me would I got the same answer without the bier and long "fish talk"? Well, well, I was quite drunk on the Ecuadorian bier, and my answer would be as good and wise as anybody's... MB-Y
A paper which can be interesting:
Barr B. W., 2013. Understanding and managing marine protected areas through integrating ecosystem based management within maritime cultural landscapes: Moving from theory to practice. Ocean & Coastal Management. 84, 184-192.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569113001919
Please check out the website of the Stockholm Resilience Centre: http://www.stockholmresilience.org/ for relevant data and the possibility to ask for relevant papers.
http://www.stockholmresilience.org/
Another good reference:
Crisis in the World Fisheries - Peoples, Problems, and Policies. By: James R.McGoodwin. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California.231 pp. 1990
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