Publications
Beaudreau, AH, TE Essington. 2011. Use of pelagic prey subsidies by demersal predators in rocky reefs: insight from movement patterns of lingcod. Mar. Biol. 158:471-483.
Essington, TE, MC Melnychuk, TA Branch, SS Heppell, OP Jensen, JS Link, SJD Martell, AM Parma, JG Pope, ADM Smith. 2011. Catch shares, fisheries, and ecological stewardship: a comparative analysis of resource responses to a rights-based policy instrument. Cons. Let. doi:10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00226.x.
Ferriss, BE, TE Essington. 2011. Regional patterns in mercury and selenium concentrations of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the Pacific Ocean. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 68:2046-2056.
Hunsicker, ME, L Ciannelli, K Bailey, J Buckel, W White, JS Link, TE Essington et al. 2011. Functional responses and scaling in predator-prey interactions of marine fishes: contemporary issues and emerging concepts. Ecol. Lett. 14:1288-1299.
Marshall, KN, TE Essington. 2011. Energetic conditions promoting top-down control of prey by predators. PLoS One 6:e29723. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029723.
Melnychuk, MC, TE Essington, TA Branch, SS Heppell, OP Jensen, JS Link, SJD Martell, AM Parma, JG Pope, ADM Smith. 2011. Can catch share fisheries better track management targets? Fish. Fisheries. doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00429.x.
Reum JCP, TE Essington. 2011. Season- and depth-dependent variability of a demersal fish assemblage in a large fjord estuary (Puget Sound, Washington). Fish Bull 109:186-197.
Beaudreau, AH, TE Essington. 2010. Use of pelagic prey subsidies by demersal predators in rocky reefs: insight from movement patterns of lingcod. Mar. Biol. Online, 16 Nov. 2010. DOI 10.1007/s00227-010-1574-6.
Beaudreau, AH, TE Essington. 2009. Development of a new field-based approach for estimating consumption rates of fishes and comparison with a bioenergetics model for lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus). Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 66(4):565-578.
Beaudreau, AH, TE Essington. 2007. Spatial, temporal, and ontogenetic patterns of predation on rockfishes by lingcod. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 136:1438-1452.
Courtenay, WR, BB Collette, TE Essington, R Hilborn, JW Orr, D Pauly, JE Randall, WFS Vaniz. 2010. North Atlantic fisheries: a response to criticism of the proactive proposal reply. Fisheries 35:298-298.
Cox, S.P, T.E. Essington, J.F. Kitchell, S.J.D. Martell, C.J. Walters, C. Boggs, and I. Kaplan. Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the central Pacific Ocean, 1952-1998 II. The trophic impacts of fishing and effects on tuna dynamics. 2002. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59: 1736-1747.
Cox, S.P, S.J.D. Martell, C.J. Walters, T.E. Essington, J.F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and I. Kaplan. Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the Central Pacific Ocean, 1952-1998 I. Estimating population biomass and recruitment of tunas and billfishes. 2002. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59: 1724-1735.
de Mutsert, K, JH Cowan, Jr, TE Essington, R Hilborn. 2008. Reanalyses of Gulf of Mexico fisheries data: Landings can be misleading in assessments of fisheries and fisheries ecosystems. PNAS 105(7):2740-2744.
Essington, TE, AE Punt. 2011. Implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management: advances, challenges and emerging tools. Fish and Fish. 12:123-124. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00407.x.
Essington, TE, CE Paulsen. 2010. Quantifying hypoxia impacts on an estuarine demersal community using a hierarchical ensemble approach. Ecosystems 13:1035-1048.
Essington, TE. 2009. Ecological indicators display reduced variation in North American catch share fisheries. PNAS Early Edition. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907252107.
Essington, T.E. 2006. Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commerical fishing and whaling. Pages 38-49 in JA Estes, DP DeMaster, DF Doak, TM Williams, RL Brownell (eds.), Whales and Whaling in Marine Ecosystems. Univ. California Press.
Essington, TE, AH Beaudreau, J Wiedenmann. 2006. Fishing through marine food webs. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 103:3171-3175.
Essington, T.E. 2004. Getting the right answer from the wrong model: Evaluating the sensitivity of multispecies fisheries advice to uncertain species interactions. Bull. Mar. Sci. 74:563-581.
Essington, TE, S Hansson. 2004. Predator-dependent functional responses and interaction strengths in a natural food web. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 61: 2227-2236.
Essington, T.E. 2003. Development and sensitivity analysis of bioenergetics models for skipjack tuna and albacore: a comparison on alternative life histories. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132: 759-770.
Essington, TE, JN Houser. 2003. The effects of whole-lake nutrient enrichement on Hg contamination in age-1 yellow perch. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132: 57-68
Essington, TE, DE Schindler, RJ Olson, JF Kitchell, C Boggs, R Hilborn. 2002. Ecological consequences of alternative fisheries: Examples from yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Pacific Ocean. Ecol. Appl. 12: 724-734.
Essington T.E., J.F. Kitchell and C.Walters. 2001. The VonBertalanffy growth function, bioenergetics, and the consumption rates of fish. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58: 2129-2138.
Harvey, C.J., P.C. Hanson, T.E. Essington, P.B. Brown, and J.F. Kitchell. 2002. Using bioenergetics models to predict stable isotope ratios in fishes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59: 115-124.
Hollowed, AB, KY Aydin, TE Essington, JN Ianelli, BA Megrey, AE Punt, ADM Smith. 2011. Experience with quantitative ecosystem assessment tools in the northeast Pacific. Fish and Fish. 12:189-208. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00413.x.
Hunsicker, ME, TE Essington. 2008. Evaluating the potential for trophodynamic control of fish by the longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65(11):2524-2535.
Hunsicker, ME, TE Essington. 2006. Size-structured patterns of piscivory of the longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) in the mid-Atlantic continental shelf ecosystem. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 634:754-765.
Hunsicker, ME, TE Essington, R Watson, UR Sumaila. 2010. The contribution of cephalopods to global marine fisheries: can we have our squid and eat them too? Fish and Fish. 11:421-438. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00369.x.
Kitchell, J. F., Kaplan, I. C., Cox, S. P., Martell, S. J. D., Essington, T. E., Boggs, C. H. and Walters, C. J. 2004. Ecological and economic components of alternative fishing methods to reduce by-catch of marlin in a tropical pelagic ecosystem. Bull. Mar. Sci. 74: 607-619.
Kitchell, J.F., Essington, T.E., Boggs, C.H., Schindler, D.E., and Walters C.J. 2002. The role of sharks and longline Fisheries in a pelagic ecosystem of the central pacific. Ecosystems 5: 202-216
Lessard, RB, SJD Martell, CJ Walters, TE Essington, JF Kitchell. 2005. Synthesis: Should ecosystem management involve active control of species abundances? Ecol. Soc. 10. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art1/
Link, JS, BA Megrey, TJ Miller, T Essington, J Boldt, A Bundy, E Moksness, KF Drinkwater, RO Perry. 2010. Comparative analysis of marine ecosystems: international production modelling workshop. Biol. Lett. 6:723-726.
Martell, SJD, TE Essington, B Lessard, JF Kitchell, CJ Walters, CH Boggs. 2005. Interactions of productivity, predation risk, and fishing effort in the efficacy of marine protected areas for the central Pacific. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1320-1336.
Reum, JCP, TE Essington, CM Greene, CA Rice, KL Fresh. 2011. Multiscale influence of climate on estuarine populations of forage fish: the role of coastal upwelling, freshwater flow and temperature. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 425:203-215. doi: 10.3354/meps08997.
Schindler, D.E., T.E. Essington, J.F. Kitchell, C. Boggs and R. Hilborn. 2002. Sharks and tunas: Trophic interactions and sustainable fisheries in an ecosystem context. Ecol. Appl. 735-748.
Vander Zanden, MJ, TE Essington, Y Vadeboncoeur. 2005. Is pelagic top-down control in lakes augmented by benthic energy pathways? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1422-1431.
Watters, G.M., R.J. Olson, R.C. Francis, P.C. Fiedler, J.J. Polovina, S.B. Reilly, K.Y. Aydin, C.H. Boggs, T.E. Essington, C.J. Walters, and J.F. Kitchell. 2003. Physical forcing and the dynamics of the pelagic ecosystem in the eastern tropical Pacific: simulations with ENSO-scale and global-warming climate drivers. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60: 1161-1175.