Meta-analysis of multispecies interactions and the affect on recruitment in demersal fish stocks

My project focusses on incorporating multispecies effects into latent variable covariance models that have been used to estimate density dependence within species (see Myers and Cadigan, 1993). Using long-term survey data from many different stocks, it is possible to elucidate the underlying trends. Part of my project focusses in particular on Irish Sea demersal assemblages.

Publications

Worm B, Hilborn R, Baum JK, Branch TA, Collie JS, Costello C, Fogarty MJ, Fulton EA, Hutchings JA, Jennings S, Jensen OP, Lotze HK, Mace PA, McClanahan TR, Minto C, Palumbi SR, Parma AM, Ricard D, Rosenberg AA, Watson R, Zeller D. (2009). Rebuilding global fisheries. Science, 325, 578-585.

Minto C, Myers RA, and Blanchard W. (2008). Survival variability and population density in fish populations. Nature, 452, 344-347.

Minto C and Nolan, CP. (2006). Fecundity and Maturity of Orange Roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus Collett 1889) on the Porcupine Bank, Northeast Atlantic. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 77(1), pp. 39-50. pdf

Abdallah et al. (2004). Comparative studies on the structure of an upland African stream ecosystem. Freshwater Forum, 21, 7-47.