Volume 75
Impacts of land use and climate change on coastal foodwebs & fisheries
Authors
Harris, H; Chagaris, D.d; Alford, S; Sinickson,D.S; Reaver, N.R; Allen, M.S. Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2022
Pages: 109-111
Event: Proceedings of the Seventy-Five Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Fort Walton Beach
Country: USA
Abstract
The sustainability of coupled human-natural aquatic systems will be shaped by how landscape-level human-induced stressors (e.g., watershed, land, and water use) interact with new temperatures, precipitation, and ecological regimes resulting from a changing climate. At GCFI, I presented ongoing work led by researchers at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences to model the impacts of land use and climate change on coastal food webs, fisheries, and natural resources. Two distinct approaches were described: 1) a conceptual model for how watershed modifications impact Gulf of Mexico (GoM) ecosystems, and 2) an end-to-end computational hydrologic and ecological modeling approach to quantitatively forecast these impacts.