Prospective Students
The following article will give you a good idea of what Marine Protected Areas are all about.
Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans. 2002. The Science of Marine Reserves. (Note: Acrobat 6.0 required to download this article.)
Week 1
Murray, S.N., R.F. Ambrose, J.A. Bohnsack, L.W. Botsford, M.H. Carr, G.E. Davis, P.K.Dayton, D. Gotshall, D.R. Gunderson, M.A. Hixon, J. Lubchenco, M.Mangel, A. McCall,D.A. McArdle, J.C.Ogden, J. Roughgarden, R.M. Starr, M.J. Tegner, and M.M. Yoklavich.1999. No-Take reserve networks: protection for fishery populations and marine ecosystems. Fisheries, 24:11-25.
Botsford, L.W., F. Micheli, and A. Hastings. 2003. Principles for the design of marine reserves. Ecol. Applications 13(1) Supplement:S25-S31.
Berkeley, S.A., M.A. Hixon, R.J. Larson, and M.S. Love. 2004. Fisheries sustainability via protection of age structure and spatial distributio nof fish populations. Fisheries 27(8):25-29.
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Chittenden, M.E. 2002. Given a significance test, how large a sample size is large enough? Fisheries 27(8): 25-29.
Week 2
"Migration." Pages 46-63 in D.H. Cushing. 1982. Climate and Fisheries. Academic Press, London.
Warner, R.R., S.E. Swearer, and J.E.Caselle. 2000. Larval accumulation and retention: Implications for the design of marine reserves and essential fish habitat. Bull. Mar. Sci, 66:821-830.
Shanks, A.L., B.A. Grantham, and M.H. Carr. 2003. Propagule dispersal distance and the size and spacing of marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13(1) Supplement:S159-S169.
Week 3
McGowan, J.A., D.R. Cayan, and L.M. Dorman. 1998. Climate-ocean variability and ecosystem response in the northeast Pacific. Science. 281:210-217.
Palumbi, S.R. 2003. Population genetics, demographic connectivity, and the design of marine reserves. Ecological applications. 13(1) Supplement:S146-S158.
Week 4
Halpern, B.S. 2003. The impact of marine reserves: do reserves work and does reserve size matter? Ecological applications. 13(1) Supplement:S117-S137.
Fanwashe, S., G.R. VanBlaricom, and A.A. Shelly. 2003. Restored top carnivores as detriments to the performance of marine protected areas intended for fishery sustainability: a case study with red abalones and sea otters. Cons. Biol. 17:273-283.
Nasby-Lucas, M., B.W. Embley, M.A. Hixon, S.G. Merle, B.N. Tissot, and D.J. Wright. 2002. Integration of submersible transect data and high-resolution multibeam sonar imagery for a habitat-based groundfish assessment of Heceta Bank, Oregon. Fish. Bull. 100:739-751.
Week 5
Gunderson, D.R. and R.D. Vetter. In press. Temperate rocky reef fishes. In P.F. Sale and J.P. Kritzer (eds.), Marine Metapopulations. Academic Press.
Optional: Charnov, E.L. 2002. Reproductive effort, offspriong size, and benefit–cost ratios in the classification of life histories. Evol. Ecol. Res. 4:749-758.
Week 6
Stockhausen, W.T., R.N. Lipcius, and B.M. Hickey. 2000. Joint effects of larval dispersal, population regulation, marine reserve design, and exploitation on production and recruitment in the Caribbean spiny lobster. Bull. Mar. Sci. 66:957-990.
Kendall, A.W., Jr. and S.J. Picquelle. 2003. Marine protected areas and the early life history of fishes. AFSC Processed Rept. 2003-10, NMFS/NOAA.30 p.
Week 7
Week 8
Gunderson, D.R. 1993. Direct Counts. Pages 183-199 in Surveys of Fisheries Resources. John Wiley, New York.
Gunderson, D.R. 1993. Egg and Larval Surveys. Pages 129-157 in Surveys of Fisheries Resources. John Wiley, New York.
Week 9
Jones, G.P., M.J. Millicich, M.J. Emslie, and C. Lunow. 1999. Self-recruitmentina coral reef fish population. Nature. 402:802-803.
Optional: Pine, W.E., K.H. Pollock, J.E. Hightower, T.J. Kwak, and J.A. Rice. 2003. Areview of tagging methods for estimating fish population size and components of mortality. Fisheries. 28(10):10-23.
Week 10
Airamé, S., J.E. Dugan, K.D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D.A. McArdle, and R.R. Warner. 2003. Applying ecological criteria to marine reserve designs: a case study from the California Channel Islands. Ecol. Appl. 13 (Supplement): S170-S184.
Palsson, W. A. 2002. The development of criteria for establishing and monitoring no-take refuges for rockfishes and other rocky-habitat fishes in Puget Sound. In T. Droscher (Ed), Proceedings of the 2001 Puget Sound Research Conference. Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team. Olympia, WA.