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Introduction
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Foreword
Jeffrey Polovina
Sheila JJ Heymans
1. On modelling and making predictions
Villy Christensen
2. Modelling predator-prey interactions
Tutorial: Predator-prey models
3. Your research question?
4. Defining the ecosystem
5. The energy balance of a box
6. Biomasses, energy and units
7. Production/biomass
8. Consumption/biomass
9. Ecotrophic efficiency
Tutorial: Welcome to Anchovy Bay
10. Mass balance
Tutorial: Mass-balance
11. Multi-stanza life histories
Tutorial: Adding multi-stanza groups (edit to only add multi-stanza)
12. Uncertainty
13. Network analysis
14. Foraging arena theory
Robert NM Ahrens; Villy Christensen; and Carl J. Walters
15. A primer on dynamic modelling
16. An introduction to Ecosim
17. Predicting consumption
Tutorial: Food chain model
18. Age-structured dynamics
19. Recruitment and compensation
Tutorial: Stock-recruitment
20. Predator satiation and foraging time
Tutorial: Results extractor
21. Holling functional response
22. Dynamic instability and multiple stable states
Tutorial: Group info
23. Hatchery production
24. Non-additive mortality rates
25. Shared foraging arenas
26. Bout feeding
27. Environmental impacts
28. Primary production and nutrients
Tutorial: Incorporating environmental forcing
29. Mediation
Tutorial: Mediation
Tutorial: Trawling cultivates for squid (mediation)
Tutorial: Mediation and noise
30. Tutorial: Cyclic dominance
31. Density-dependence, carrying capacity and vulnerability multipliers
32. Vulnerability and vulnerability multipliers
Jacob Bentley; David Chagaris; Marta Coll; Sheila JJ Heymans; Natalia Serpetti; Carl J. Walters; and Villy Christensen
33. Using ecology and history to derive vulnerability multipliers
34. Statistical approaches for estimating vulnerability multipliers
35. Case study: Fitting impact on vulnerability multipliers
36. Case study: How fitting impacts advice
37. Vulnerability multipliers: Discussion
Tutorial: Time series fitting
Tutorial: Monte Carlo runs
38. Stock reduction analysis
Tutorial: Uncertainty in time series data
Tutorial: Fitting time series with true values
Tutorial: Anchovy Bay Ecosampler
Tutorial: Maximum sustainable yield (MSY)
39. Management strategy evaluation
Tutorial: Management strategy evaluation (CEFAS plug-in)
40. Constrained optimization of fishing effort
Tutorial: Stock recovery scenarios
41. Fleet effort dynamics
42. Introduction
Santiago de la Puente
43. Revenue and profits
44. Value chain modelling
Tutorial: Value chain
Santiago de la Puente and Villy Christensen
45. Price elasticity
Tutorial: Price elasticity
46. Fishing policy exploration
47. Risk-averse portfolio utility
Tutorial: Policy exploration procedure
Villy Christensen and Santiago de la Puente
Tutorial: Trade-offs between policy objectives
48. External bio-economic models
49. Spatial modelling primer
50. Introduction to Ecospace
51. Habitat capacity
Villy Christensen; Marta Coll; Jeroen Steenbeek; Joe Buszowski; David Chagaris; and Carl J. Walters
52. Spatial implementation of multi-stanza and IBM
Tutorial: Spatial model of Anchovy Bay
Tutorial: Making a base map (bathymetry)
53. Spatial fishery dynamics
54. Predicting spatial effort
Tutorial: AIS in Anchovy Bay
Tutorial: Ecospace maps
Tutorial: Spatial temporal framework
Jeroen Steenbeek
55. Migration and advection
56. Spatial planning: MSP Challenge
Tutorial: MPAs in Anchovy Bay
57. Spatial optimization
Tutorial: Spatial optimization
58. Coastal restoration
Kim de Mutsert
Application of spatial models
Food web effects of human-made structures
Marine renewable energy and aquaculture
Marine protected areas
Hypoxia and nutrient loading
Episodic mortality events
Noise impact
Impact of invasive species
Modeling invasive species in a data-poor context
Defining safe operating space
Environmental impact assessment
Climate change in the global ocean
Ecospace limitations (edit)
59. Introduction and dynamics
Shawn Booth; Jeroen Steenbeek; and Sabine Charmasson
60. Ecotracer applications
61. Modelling micro plastics
Chiara Piroddi; Natalia Serpetti; and William Walters
Tutorial: Ecotracer ZPD
William Walters
Tutorial: Caesium in Anchovy Bay
Research and policy questions: an introduction
Forage fish exploitation
Marine mammals and fisheries
Bycatch and discards
Good Environmental Status: Indicators
Ecosystem-based harvest control rules
MSE properties
Balanced harvesting
Climate change and management
Invasive species tradeoffs
MPA effectiveness
Artificial reefs
Infrastructure impacts
Socio-ecological tradeoffs in management
Five-day introductory course
Contributors
Versioning history
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