Evaluating red tide effects on the West Florida Shelf using a spatiotemporal ecosystem modeling framework.

ABSTRACT: The West Florida Shelf (WFS), located in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, fosters high species richness and supports highly valuable fisheries. However, red tide events occur regularly that can impact fisheries resources as well as ecosystem state, functioning, and derived services. Therefore, it is important to evaluate and quantify the spatiotemporal impacts of red tides to improve population assessments, mitigate potential negative effects through management, and better understand disturbances to support an ecosystem-based management framework. To model red tide effects on the marine community, we used Ecospace, the spatiotemporal module of the ecosystem modeling framework Ecopath with Ecosim. The inclusion of both lethal and sublethal response functions to red tide and a comprehensive calib

SUBMITTER: Vilas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9925760 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature