Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that the following review of the applications of the
population consequences of disturbance (PCoD) framework is now available online:
Enrico Pirotta, Cormac G. Booth, Daniel P. Costa, Erica Fleishman, Scott D.
Kraus, David Lusseau, David Moretti, Leslie F. New, Robert S. Schick, Lisa K.
Schwarz, Samantha E. Simmons, Len Thomas, Peter L. Tyack, Michael J. Weise,
Randall S. Wells and John Harwood (2018). Understanding the population
consequences of disturbance. Ecology and Evolution.
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. 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.
A PDF copy of the paper can be downloaded from:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.4458
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any question regarding our work.
Best Regards,
Enrico Pirotta
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