Understanding the population consequences of disturbance

dc.contributor.authorPirotta, Enrico
dc.contributor.authorBooth, Cormac G.
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Daniel P.
dc.contributor.authorFleishman, Erica
dc.contributor.authorKraus, Scott D.
dc.contributor.authorLusseau, David
dc.contributor.authorMoretti, David
dc.contributor.authorNew, Leslie F.
dc.contributor.authorSchick, Robert S.
dc.contributor.authorSchwarz, Lisa K.
dc.contributor.authorSimmons, Samantha E.
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Len
dc.contributor.authorTyack, Peter L.
dc.contributor.authorWeise, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorWells, Randall S.
dc.contributor.authorHarwood, John
dc.contributor.funderOffice of Naval Researchen
dc.contributor.funderE&P Sound and Marine Life Joint Industryen
dc.contributor.funderMarine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)en
dc.contributor.funderScottish Funding Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-02T04:40:08Z
dc.date.available2019-10-02T04:40:08Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-12
dc.description.abstractAbstract 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. Synthesis and applications: 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipONR Grants (N00014-16- 1- 2858, N00014-09- 1- 0896, N00014-12- 1- 0274, N00014-15- 1- 2553); SFC Grant (HR09011)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationPirotta, E., Booth, C.G., Costa, D.P., Fleishman, E., Kraus, S.D., Lusseau, D., Moretti, D., New, L.F., Schick, R.S., Schwarz, L.K. and Simmons, S.E., 2018. Understanding the population consequences of disturbance. Ecology and Evolution, 8(19), (13pp). DOI:10.1002/ece3.4458en
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/ece3.4458en
dc.identifier.eissn2045-7758
dc.identifier.endpage9946en
dc.identifier.issued19en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEcology and Evolutionen
dc.identifier.startpage9934en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8667
dc.identifier.volume8en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJohn Wiley and Sons Ltden
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.4458
dc.rights© 2018 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltden
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAnthropogenic disturbanceen
dc.subjectEnvironmental impact assessmentsen
dc.subjectMarine mammalsen
dc.subjectNonconsumptive effectsen
dc.subjectPopulation consequencesen
dc.subjectTrait-mediated indirect interactionsen
dc.subjectUncertaintyen
dc.titleUnderstanding the population consequences of disturbanceen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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