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Durability of environment-recruitment relationships in aquatic ecosystems: insights from long-term monitoring in a highly modified estuary and implications for management
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Paper
Durability of environment-recruitment relationships in aquatic ecosystems: insights from long-term monitoring in a highly modified estuary and implications for management
2018
Overview
The environment can strongly influence the survival of aquatic organisms and their resulting dynamics. Our understanding of these relationships, typically based on correlations, underpins many contemporary resource management decisions and conservation actions. However, such relationships can break down over time as ecosystems evolve. Even when durable, they may not be very useful for management if they exhibit high variability, context dependency, or non-stationarity. Here, we systematically review the literature to identify trends across environment-recruitment relationships for aquatic taxa from California's San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary. This is one of the most heavily modified aquatic ecosystems in North America, and home to numerous species of concern whose relationships with the environment inform regulatory actions and constraints. We retested 23 of these relationships spanning 9 species using data that have accumulated in the years since they were first published (9-40 additional years) to determine whether they persisted. Most relationships were robust (i.e., same or stronger in magnitude) to the addition of new data, but the ability to predict how a species will respond to environmental change did not generally improve with more data. Instead, prediction error generally increased over time and in some cases very quickly, suggesting a rapid regime shift. Our results suggest that more data alone will not necessarily improve the ability of these relationships to inform decision making. We conclude by synthesizing emerging insights from the literature on best practices for the analysis, use, and refinement of environment-recruitment relationships to inform decision making in dynamic ecosystems.
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
