Can regime shifts in reproduction be explained by changing climate and food availability? ...

Marine populations often show considerable variation in their productivity, including regime shifts. Of special interest are prolonged shifts to low recruitment and low abundance which occur in many fish populations despite reductions in fishing pressure. One of the possible causes for the lack of r...

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Main Authors: Tirronen, Maria, Depestele, Jochen, Kuparinen, Anna
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2022
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.0k6djhb3m
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.0k6djhb3m
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Summary:Marine populations often show considerable variation in their productivity, including regime shifts. Of special interest are prolonged shifts to low recruitment and low abundance which occur in many fish populations despite reductions in fishing pressure. One of the possible causes for the lack of recovery has been suggested to be the Allee effect (depensation). Nonetheless, both regime shifts and the Allee effect are empirically emerging patterns but provide no explanation about the underlying mechanisms. Environmental forcing, on the other hand, is known to induce population fluctuations and has also been suggested as one of the primary challenges for recovery. Yet, traditional stock-recruitment models used in fisheries management have been time-invariant and considered only density-dependence. In the present study, we build upon recently developed Bayesian change-point models to explore the contribution of food and climate as external drivers in recruitment regime shifts, while accounting for ... : The recruitment models were fitted to the empirical data using the Bayesian online change-point detection method (BOCPD), combined with simulation-based filtering. The data were divided into segments by calculating their most likely segmentation (MLS). The methods are described more in detail in the article and its supporting material. ...