Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability

Publications

Publications

• Past, present and future of fishery management on one of the world's last remaining pristine great lakes: Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

  Published on November 9, 2012
  Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada supports important sport and aboriginal-subsistence fisheries and is among the last remaining pristine great lakes of the world.

• Ontogenetic shifts in morphology and resource use of cisco Coregonus artedi

  Published on November 4, 2012
  Gillraker shape and number have always been used as key diagnostic characters in coregonine taxonomy; based on the findings presented here, ontogenetic shifts should be accounted for in resulting classifications.

• Great Lakes Fisheries Policy and Management: A Binational Perspective (2nd Edition)

  Published on October 31, 2012
  This incisive study provides a collaborative, interjurisdictional, and multi-use perspective, one shaped by the USA and Canada together as part of their shared governance of these waters.

• The need for decision-support tools for a changing climate: application to inland fisheries management

  Published on October 31, 2012
  Harvest management of lake whitefish provides an excellent case study to examine the need, value and utility for a decision-support tool for inland fisheries management when considering the effects of climate change.

• Improving the efficiency of conservation policies with the use of surrogates derived from remotely sensed and ancillary data

  Published on October 18, 2012
  Conservation policies are emerging in many places around the world, many of which involve payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes

• Age, Growth, Survival, and Maturity of Lake Trout Morphotypes in Lake Mistassini, Quebec

  Published on October 8, 2012
  Life history characteristics were compared between the forms of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush in Lake Mistassini, Quebec, to determine whether the two morphotypes may represent resource polymorphism.

• Relationship of the estrogen surge and multiple mates to cub paternity in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca): Implications for optimal timing for copulation or artificial insemination

  Published on September 23, 2012
  The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of timed natural matings and/or artificial inseminations (AI) in the context of the urinary estrogen surge on cub production in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca).

• PNAS - Coexistence between wildlife and humans at fine spatial scales

  Published on September 3, 2012
  Tigers in Nepal take the night shift to avoid people

• Water Sustainability for China and Beyond

  Published on August 10, 2012
  We highlight China’s water crisis and plan, and then offer recommendations.

• Utility of a psychological framework for carnivore conservation

  Published on August 1, 2012
  Conserving threatened carnivore species increasingly depends on the capacity of local people to cohabit with those species.

• How Perceived Exposure to Environmental Harm Influences Environmental Behavior in Urban China

  Published on July 30, 2012
  Our results suggest that more participation in pro-environmental behaviors may be expected as rapid economic development increases public exposure to environmental harm in urban China.

• Stock Identification of Naturalized Brown Trout in Lake Superior Tributaries: Differentiation Based on Allozyme Data

  Published on July 16, 2012
  Eight collections of brown trout Salmo trutta from four Lake Superior tributary systems in Wisconsin (the species' principal range in the Lake Superior drainage) were analyzed electrophoretically for enzyme expression at 15 polymorphic loci.

• Integrating Ecological and Social Networks in Fisheries

  Published on July 5, 2012
  In this article, I highlight Dr. William W. Taylor. For his plenary talk, Bill will address “Fisheries Sustainability: The Science and Art of Coupling Human and Natural Systems.”

• Leadership in the Hurricane of Change

  Published on July 5, 2012
  The winds of change in our conservation arena have accelerated into a veritable hurricane as the economic well-being and associated political and funding priorities change at the state and federal levels of United States Government.

• Agent-based modeling of the effects of social norms on enrollment in payments for ecosystem services

  Published on June 20, 2012
  In this paper, we developed an agent-based simulation model to demonstrate the evolution and impacts of social norms on the enrollment of agricultural land in a PES program.

• A Perspective on Perspectives: Methods to Reduce Variation in Shape Analysis of Digital Images

  Published on June 16, 2012
  We present digital imaging methods for geometric morphometric analysis of shape, and we describe issues associated with improper image acquisition by using lake trout Salvelinus namaycush as an example.

• Human drivers of national greenhouse-gas emissions

  Published on June 11, 2012
  Centuries of speculation about the causes of human stress on the environment is now being disciplined with empirical evidence, including analyses of differences in greenhouse-gas emissions across contemporary nation states.

• Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to population-environment research for sustainability aims: a review and appraisal

  Published on June 8, 2012
  The causes and consequences of demographic changes for the environment, and the possible ways of influencing population dynamics to achieve ‘sustainability’, have been the subject of many debates in science and policy in recent decades

• Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus is not the cause of thiamine deficiency impeding lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) recruitment in the Great Lakes

  Published on May 24, 2012
  This study quantified the contribution of P. thiaminolyticus to the total thiaminase I activity in multiple trophic levels of Great Lakes food webs.

• Weak Ties, Labor Migration, and Environmental Impacts: Toward a Sociology of Sustainability

  Published on May 23, 2012
  Debate about the substitutability of manufactured, natural, human, and social capital is at the heart of sustainability theory