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de Mutsert, K, JH Cowan, Jr, TE Essington, R Hilborn. 2008. Reanalyses of Gulf of Mexico fisheries data: Landings can be misleading in assessments of fisheries and fisheries ecosystems. PNAS 105(7):2740-2744.

Beaudreau, AH, TE Essington. 2007. Spatial, temporal, and ontogenetic patterns of predation on rockfishes by lingcod. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 136:1438-1452.

Essington, T.E. 2006. Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commerical fishing and whaling. Pages 38-49 in JA Estes, DP DeMaster, DF Doak, TM Williams, RL Brownell (eds.), Whales and Whaling in Marine Ecosystems. Univ. California Press.

Essington, TE, AH Beaudreau, J Wiedenmann. 2006. Fishing through marine food webs. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 103:3171-3175.

Hunsicker, ME, TE Essington. 2006. Size-structured patterns of piscivory of the longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) in the mid-Atlantic continental shelf ecosystem. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 634:754-765.

Lessard, RB, SJD Martell, CJ Walters, TE Essington, JF Kitchell. 2005. Synthesis: Should ecosystem management involve active control of species abundances? Ecol. Soc. 10. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss2/art1/

Martell, SJD, TE Essington, B Lessard, JF Kitchell, CJ Walters, CH Boggs. 2005. Interactions of productivity, predation risk, and fishing effort in the efficacy of marine protected areas for the central Pacific. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1320-1336.

Vander Zanden, MJ, TE Essington, Y Vadeboncoeur. 2005. Is pelagic top-down control in lakes augmented by benthic energy pathways? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 62:1422-1431.

Essington, T.E. and Hansson, S. 2004. Predator-dependent functional responses and interaction strengths in a natural food web. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 61: 2227-2236.

Essington, T.E. 2004. Getting the right answer from the wrong model: Evaluating the sensitivity of multispecies fisheries advice to uncertain species interactions. Bull. Mar. Sci. 74:563-581.

Kitchell, J. F., Kaplan, I. C., Cox, S. P., Martell, S. J. D., Essington, T. E., Boggs, C. H. and Walters, C. J. 2004. Ecological and economic components of alternative fishing methods to reduce by-catch of marlin in a tropical pelagic ecosystem. Bull. Mar. Sci. 74: 607-619.

Watters, G.M., R.J. Olson, R.C. Francis, P.C. Fiedler, J.J. Polovina, S.B. Reilly, K.Y. Aydin, C.H. Boggs, T.E. Essington, C.J. Walters, and J.F. Kitchell. 2003. Physical forcing and the dynamics of the pelagic ecosystem in the eastern tropical Pacific: simulations with ENSO-scale and global-warming climate drivers. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 60: 1161-1175.

Essington, T.E. 2003. Development and sensitivity analysis of bioenergetics models for skipjack tuna and albacore: a comparison on alternative life histories. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132: 759-770.

Cox, S.P, S.J.D. Martell, C.J. Walters, T.E. Essington, J.F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and I. Kaplan. Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the Central Pacific Ocean, 1952-1998 I. Estimating population biomass and recruitment of tunas and billfishes. 2002. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59: 1724-1735.

Cox, S.P, T.E. Essington, J.F. Kitchell, S.J.D. Martell, C.J. Walters, C. Boggs, and I. Kaplan. Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the central Pacific Ocean, 1952-1998 II. The trophic impacts of fishing and effects on tuna dynamics. 2002. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59: 1736-1747.

Essington, T.E. and J.N. Houser. 2003. The effects of whole-lake nutrient enrichement on Hg contamination in age-1 yellow perch. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 132: 57-68

Essington, T.E. D.E. Schindler, R.J. Olson, J.F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and R. Hilborn. 2002 Ecological consequences of alternative fisheries: Examples from yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) in the Pacific Ocean. Ecol. Appl. 12: 724-734.

Schindler, D.E., T.E. Essington, J.F. Kitchell, C. Boggs and R. Hilborn. 2002. Sharks and tunas: Trophic interactions and sustainable fisheries in an ecosystem context. Ecol. Appl. 735-748.

Kitchell, J.F., Essington, T.E., Boggs, C.H., Schindler, D.E., and Walters C.J. 2002. The role of sharks and longline Fisheries in a pelagic ecosystem of the central pacific. Ecosystems 5: 202-216

Harvey, C.J., P.C. Hanson, T.E. Essington, P.B. Brown, and J.F. Kitchell. 2002. Using bioenergetics models to predict stable isotope ratios in fishes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59: 115-124.

Essington T.E., J.F. Kitchell and C.Walters. 2001 The VonBertalanffy growth function, bioenergetics, and the consumption rates of fish. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58: 2129-2138.

Essington T.E. 2001. Precautionary approach in fisheries management: The devil is in the details. Trends Ecol. Evol. 13: 121-122.