| Date |
Speaker(s) |
Theme |
Articles* |
| 2. Oct 6 |
Trevor Branch & Vince Gallucci |
Fishing down, up, through, and throughout, marine food webs |
Pauly, D., V. Christensen, J. Dalsgaard, R. Froese, and F. Torres, Jr. 1998. Fishing down marine food webs. Science 279:860-863.
Pauly, D. and R. Watson. 2005. Background and interpretation of the ‘Marine Trophic Index’ as a measure of biodiversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 360:415-423.
Essington, T. E., A. H. Beaudreau, and J. Wiedenmann. 2006. Fishing through marine food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 103:3171-3175.
Sethi, S. A., T. A. Branch, and R. Watson. 2010. Fishery development patterns are driven by profit but not trophic level. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A. 107:12163-12167.
Branch, T. A., R. Watson, E. A. Fulton, S. Jennings, C. R. McGilliard, G. T. Pablico, D. Ricard, and S. R. Tracey. 2010. The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries. Nature 468:431-435.
Three blogs
Estes, J. A., J. Terborgh, J. S. Brashares, M. E. Power, J. Berger, W. J. Bond, S. R. Carpenter, T. E. Essington, R. D. Holt, J. B. C. Jackson, R. J. Marquis, L. Oksanen, T. Oksanen, R. T. Paine, E. K. Pikitch, W. J. Ripple, S. A. Sandin, M. Scheffer, T. W. Schoener, J.B. Shurin, A. R. E. Sinclair, M. E. Soulé, R. Virtanen, and D. A. Wardle. 2011. Trophic downgrading of planet Earth. Science 333:301-306. |
| 3. Oct 13 |
Julian Olden & Dave Beachamp |
Invasives—friend or foe? |
Carey, M.P., B.L. Sanderson, T.A. Friesen, K.A. Barnas and J.D. Olden. 2011. Smallmouth Bass in the Pacific Northwest: A Threat to Native Species; a Benefit for Anglers. Reviews in Fisheries Science 19(3): 305–315.
M.A. Schlaepfer, D.F. Sax and J.D. Olden. 2011. The Potential Conservation Value of Non-Native Species. Conservation Biology 25(3): 428–437.
Brown, J.H., D.F. Sax, D. Simberloff and M. Sagoff. 2007. Aliens Among Us. Conservation Magazine 8(2): 14-21.
Davis, M.A. et al. 2011. Don’t Judge Species on Their Origins. Nature 474: 153-154. |
| 4. Oct 20 |
Daniel Schindler & Tom Quinn |
Biocomplexity in fish stocks |
Hilborn R., T. P. Quinn, D. E. Schindler, & D. E. Rogers. 2003. Biocomplexity and fisheries sustainability. PNAS May 27, 2003 100(11): 6564–6568.
Schindler, D. E., R. Hilborn, B. Chasco, C. P. Boatright, T. P.Quinn, L. A. Rogers, & M. S. Webster. 2010. Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species. Nature 465(3): 609-613.
Hutchinson, W. F. 2008. The dangers of ignoring stock complexity in fishery management: the case of the North Sea cod. Biology Letters 4: 693–695.
Quinn, T. P., M. T. Kinnison & M. J. Unwin. 2001. Evolution of chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) populations in New Zealand: pattern, rate, and process. Genetica 112-113: 493-513.
Quinn, T.P., K. Doctor, N. Kendall, and H.B. Rich, Jr. 2009. Diadromy and the Life History of Sockeye Salmon: Nature, Nurture, and the Hand of Man. American Fisheries Society Symposium 69: 23–42. |
| 5. Oct 27 |
Ray Hilborn & André Punt |
Is the likely collapse of world fisheries perhaps overstated? |
Myers R. A. and B. Worm. 2003. Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature 234:280-283
Pauly, D. 2009. Apocalypse now: The end of fish. The New Republic September 28, 2009
Sibert, J., J. Hampton, P. Kleiber, M. Maunder. 2006. Biomass, size and trophic status of top predators in the Pacific Ocean. Science 314:1773-1776
Worm, B., R. Hilborn, J.K. Baum, T.A. Branch, J.C. Collie, C. Costello et al. 2009. Rebuilding global fisheries. Science 325:578-585
Worm, B., R. Hilborn, J.K. Baum, T.A. Branch, J.C. Collie, C. Costello et al. 2009. Rebuilding global fisheries: Supporting Online Material
Worm, B., E.B. Barbier, N. Beaumont, J.E. Duffy, C. Folke, B.S. Halpern et al. 2006. Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services. Science 1-5
Worm, B. et al. Commentary on “Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services.” 2007. Science 316:1281-1285
Hilborn, R. 2010. Apocalypse Forestalled: Why All the World’s Fisheries Aren’t Collapsing. The Science Cronicles.
Perreault, M. 2011. War Fisheries. |
| 6. Nov 3 |
Graham Young & Steven Roberts |
Environmental epigenetics |
Angers, B., E. Castonguay and R. Massicotte. 2010. Environmentally induced phenotypes and DNA methylation: how to deal with unpredictable conditions until the next generation and after. Molecular Ecology 19: 1283-1295.
Bossdorf, O., C L. Richards and M. Pigliucci. 2008. Epigenetics for ecologists. Ecology Letters 11: 106–115.
Gavery, M. R. and S. B. Roberts. 2010. DNA methylation patterns provide insight into epigenetic regulation in the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas). BMC Genomics 11: 483.
Crews, D. and J.A. McLachlan. 2006. Epigenetics, evolution, endocrine disruption, health and disease. Endocrinology 14(6):S4-S10.
Video
http://genefish.wikispaces.com/Ghost+in+your+Genes |
| 7. Nov 10 |
George Hunt & Nate Mantua |
Climate variability, ecosystem change and fish recruitment |
Mueter, F.J., and M.A. Litzow. 2008. Sea ice alters the biogeography of the Bering sea continental shelf. Ecol. Applic. 18(2): 309-320.
Hunt, G. L. Hunt Jr, K. O. Coyle, L. B. Eisner, E. V. Farley, R. A. Heintz, F. Mueter, J. M. Napp, J. E. Overland, P. H. Ressler, S. Salo, and P. J. Stabeno. 2011. Climate impacts on eastern Bering Sea foodwebs: a synthesis of new data and an assessment of the Oscillating Control Hypothesis. ICES Journal of Marine Science. Doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsr036.
Scheffer, M., S. Carpenter, J. A. Foley, C. Folke, and B. Walker. 2001. Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems. Nature 413:591-596.
Mantua, N.J. and S.R. Hare, Y. Zhang, J.M. Wallace, and R.C. Francis: A Pacific interdecadal climate oscillation with impacts on salmon production. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 78, pp. 1069-1079.
Hare and N.J. Mantua. 2000: Empirical evidence for North Pacific regime shifts in 1977 and 1989 . Progress in Oceanography.Vol 47, pp.103-145.
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| 8. Nov 17 |
No class due to SAFS Graduate Student Symposium |
| 9. Nov 24 |
No class due to Thanksgiving |
| 10. Dec 1 |
Lorenz Hauser & Kerry Naish |
Human impacts on genetic diversity in natural populations
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Allendorf, F.W. and J.J. Hard. 2009. Human-induced evolution caused by unnatural selection through harvest of wild animals. PNAS 106(suppl. 1): 9987–9994.
Guinand, B., J.L. Rolland, and F. Bonhomme. 2008. Genetic structure of the common sole (Solea solea) in the Bay of Biscay: Nurseries as units of selection? Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 78: 316-326.
Jakobsdottir, K.B., H. Pardoe, A. Magnusson, H. Bjornsson, C.Pampoulie, D. E. Ruzzante, and G. Marteinsdottir. 2011. Historical changes in genotypic frequencies at the Pantophysin locus in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in Icelandic waters: evidence of fisheries-induced selection? Evolutionary Applications ISSN 1752-4571.
Palkovacs, E.P., B.A. Wasserman, and M.T. Kinnison. 2011. Eco-Evolutionary Trophic Dynamics: Loss of Top Predators Drives Trophic Evolution and Ecology of Prey. PLoS ONE 6(4).
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| 11. Dec 8 |
Carolyn Friedman & Terrie Klinger |
Ocean acidification |
Blackford, J.C. 2010. Predicting the impacts of ocean acidification: Challenges from an ecosystem perspective. Journal of Marine Systems 81: 12-18.
Hofmann, G.E., M.J. O'Donnell, and A.E. Todgham. 2008. Using functional genomics to explore the effects of ocean acidification on calcifying marine organisms. Marine Ecology Progress Series 373: 219-225.
Hofmann, G.E., J.P. Barry, P.J.Edmunds, R.D. Gates, D.A. Hutchins, T. Klinger, and M.A. Sewell. The effect of ocean acidification on calcifying organisms in marine ecosystems: An organism-to-ecosystem perspective. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 41: 127-147. |
