期刊
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
卷 680, 期 -, 页码 1-6出版社
INTER-RESEARCH
DOI: 10.3354/meps13963
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Marine management; Ecosystem modelling; End-to-end models; Uncertainty
The use of ecosystem models in management is essential, covering various biological levels and anthropogenic pressures. The key lies in evaluating uncertainty and promoting the combination of observations and models for continuous development of these tools.
The earth's oceans and ecosystems face climatic changes and multiple anthropogenic stressors. In the face of this, managers of the marine environment are increasingly adopting the ecosystem approach to underpin their decision making. Process-based ecosystem models (frequently referred to as dynamic models) synthesize existing observational and experimental knowledge into a numerical framework, but an obstacle to the incorporation of these models in management is the lack of credibility due to limited control of uncertainty in the results. The 13 papers in this Theme Section highlight how ecosystem models are, or can be, applied as management tools, and the various ways in which they quantify uncertainty and evaluate the skill. The papers span all levels of biological organization from individuals to populations and ecosystems, and cover a wide selection of anthropogenic pressures. Bearing in mind that the interpretation of observations is in fact also a model with representativeness error, we advocate a closer combination of observations and models to bring both methods forward. With the current challenges to the marine ecosystem and our uses of it, the more tools marine managers have in their `toolbox', the better; dynamic modelling is one such very important tool, and its inclusion in ecosystem management should be continuously assessed.
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