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Vasslides, James Michael.

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Using ecosystem models to understand the faunal response to non-trophic impacts in an estuarine ecosystem.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Using ecosystem models to understand the faunal response to non-trophic impacts in an estuarine ecosystem./
Author:	Vasslides, James Michael.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	173 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-09B(E).
Subject:	Ecology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10095971
ISBN:	9781339601274

Using ecosystem models to understand the faunal response to non-trophic impacts in an estuarine ecosystem.
Vasslides, James Michael.

Using ecosystem models to understand the faunal response to non-trophic impacts in an estuarine ecosystem. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 173 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-09(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2016.

Ecosystem-based management requires a holistic view of the impacts of management activities, and a number of modelling techniques have been suggested as appropriate for the task at hand. In the first chapter I utilized fuzzy logic cognitive mapping to develop conceptual models of a Barnegat Bay, a lagoonal estuarine system, among four stakeholder groups. These findings suggest that while all of the stakeholders interviewed perceive the subject ecosystem as a complex series of social and ecological interconnections, there is a core set of components that are present in most of the groups' models that are viewed as crucial in managing the system towards some desired outcome. However, the variability in the connections between these core components and the rest of the categories influences the exact nature of these outcomes.

ISBN: 9781339601274Subjects--Topical Terms:

516476
Ecology.

Using ecosystem models to understand the faunal response to non-trophic impacts in an estuarine ecosystem.
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520 $a In the second chapter I constructed a trophic-based ecosystem model for the same estuary and included mortality associated with a nuclear generating station. Under a scenario where the generating station substantially reduces its water withdrawals, the effect on the biomass of an individual species tended to be small (<3%), and the direction of the change varied by species. However, trophic interactions played an important role in determining the overall change in a species' biomass, as some species directly impacted by the generating station had a reduced biomass in the decommissioning scenario due to increased predation mortality.
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