Fishery Ecosystem Dynamics

Michael Fogarty is a senior scientist in the Ecosystem Dynamics and Assessment Branch of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. He is a Visiting Scientist in the Marine Policy Center of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Oceanography of the University of Rhode Island and the School of Marine Science of the University of Massachusetts.Jeremy Collie worked in British Columbia and Alaska before joining the faculty of the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. He teaches Fish Population Dynamics, Fisheries Oceanography, and Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Science and Management.

• 1: IntroductionEcological Models: an overview2: Density-Independent Population Growth3: Density-Dependent Population Growth4: Interspecific Interactions I: Predation and Parasitism5: Interspecific Interactions II: Competition and Mutualism6: Community Dynamics7: Spatial ProcessesEcological Production8: Production at the Individual Level9: Production at the Cohort and Population Levels10: Production at the Ecosystem LevelHarvesting Models and Strategies11: Harvesting at the Cohort and Population Levels12: Harvesting at the Community Level13: Harvesting at the Ecosystem Level14: Empirical Dynamic Modeling15: Towards EBFM