Predictive capacity of Ecopath with Ecosim: model performance and ecological indicators’ response to uncertainty (PDF)
Susini, I., and Todd, V.L.G Environmental Modelling & Software 143 (2021)DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2021.105098 The ecosystem modelling complex ‘Ecopath with Ecosim’ has been implemented extensively in the field of marine science; however, despite its widespread application, descriptions of its functionality remain arcane in the literature. This study conducts an evaluation of the software’s prediction capacity using eight published Ecopath […]
Prediction of marine mammal auditory-impact risk from Acoustic Deterrent Devices used in Scottish aquaculture
Todd, V.L.G., Williamson, L.D., Jiang, J., Cox, S.E., Todd, I.B., and Ruffert, M Marine Pollution Bulletin 165, 112171 (2021)DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112171 Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) are used worldwide to deter pinnipeds from predating fish-aquaculture facilities. Desk-based noise-propagation modelling of six commercial ADD models, and a ‘fictional’ ADD was performed, the latter involving alternating source level, frequency, duty cycle, noise-exposure duration, and […]
Climate-driven deoxygenation elevates fishing vulnerability for the ocean’s widest ranging shark (PDF)
Vedor, M., Queiroz, N., Mucientes, G., Couto, A., da Costa, I., dos Santos, A., Vandeperre, F., Fontes, J., Afonso, P., Rosa, R., Humphries, N.E., Sims, D.W. eLife 10: e62508 (2021)DOI:10.7554/eLife.62508 Climate-driven expansions of ocean hypoxic zones are predicted to concentrate pelagic fish in oxygenated surface layers, but how expanding hypoxia and fisheries will interact to affect threatened […]
Characterising the second wave of fish and invertebrate colonisation and production potential of an offshore petroleum platform
Todd, V.L.G., Susini, I., Williamson, L.D., Cox, S.E., Todd, I.B., McLean, D.L., and Macreadie, P.I. ICES Journal of Marine Science 78, 1131–1145 (2021)DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa245 Offshore Oil and Gas (O&G) infrastructure affords structurally complex hard substrata in otherwise featurless areas of the seafloor. Opportunistically collected industrial ROV imagery was used to investigate the colonization of a petroleum platform in the North […]