Biodiversity, Spatial Management, and the Ecosystem Approach

Abstract

For most of its history, fisheries science has focused on the dynamics of Single Populations. Ecosystem considerations have gained prominence in recent decades, with attention given to predation and prey shortages as sources of mortality and environmental features as drivers of variation in recruitment,. growth, and maturity. However, these are Still population-based considerations, just linking the population dynamics to components of the ecosystem in which the species lives.