Water quality-fisheries tradeoffs in a changing climate underscore the need for adaptive ecosystem-based management.

ABSTRACT: Changes driven by both unanticipated human activities and management actions are creating wicked management landscapes in freshwater and marine ecosystems that require new approaches to support decision-making. By linking a predictive model of nutrient- and temperature-driven bottom hypoxia with observed commercial fishery harvest data from Lake Erie (United States-Canada) over the past century (1928-2022) and climate projections (2030-2099), we show how simple, yet robust models and routine monitoring data can be used to identify tradeoffs associated with nutrient management and guide decision-making in even the largest of aquatic ecosystems now and in the future. Our approach enabled us to assess planned nutrient load reduction targets designed to mitigate nutrient-driven hypoxia and sho

SUBMITTER: Scavia D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11551330 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature