title: Ecosystem oceanography for global change in fisheries.
abstract: Overexploitation and climate change are increasingly causing unanticipated changes in marine ecosystems, such as higher variability in fish recruitment and shifts in species dominance. An ecosystem-based approach to fisheries attempts to address these effects by integrating populations, food webs and fish habitats at different scales. Ecosystem models represent indispensable tools to achieve this objective. However, a balanced research strategy is needed to avoid overly complex models. Ecosystem oceanography represents such a balanced strategy that relates ecosystem components and their interactions to climate change and exploitation. It aims at developing realistic and robust models at different levels of organisation and addressing specific questions in a global change context while systematically exploring the ever-increasing amount of biological and environmental data.
authors.affiliation: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Centre de Recherche Halieutique Méditerranéenne et Tropicale, BP 171, 34203 Sète Cedex, France. philippe.cury@ird.fr
authors.forename: Philippe Maurice
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Cury
authors.forename: Yunne-Jai
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Planque
authors.forename: Joël Marcel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Durant
authors.forename: Jean-Marc
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Fromentin
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kramer-Schadt
authors.forename: Nils Christian
authors.initials: NC
authors.lastname: Stenseth
authors.forename: Morgane
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Travers
authors.forename: Volker
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Grimm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D005398:Fisheries; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D009791:Oceanography / Q000379:methods*