Biological Control as a Tool for Ecosystem Management

Biological Control as a Tool for Ecosystem Management

Biological control is proposed as a tool useful for ecosystem management and compatible with the goals of often competing interests regarding the restoration and maintenance of ecosystems. We summarize the effects of introduced species on ecosystems in three broad groups: insects, vertebrates, and weeds. We then discuss the role of biological control for each of these groups in the context of e...

Habitat Simulation Technique as a Powerful Tool for Instream Flow Needs Assessment and River Ecosystem Management

Instream flow needs (IFN) assessment studies are performed to provide guidelines for stream water management and to assess the impacts of different water projects such as weirs, dams and stream diversions on the available fish habitat. The physical habitat simulation is one of the IFN assessment methods and also a powerful tool in management of river ecosystem that has not become a common metho...

Biological Control and Ecosystem Services

Marine Protected Areas as a tool for fishery management and ecosystem conservation: an Introduction

This special issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is dedicated to Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and presents a range of papers from the “European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas as Tool for Fisheries Management and Ecosystem Conservation”. This introduction provides a brief overview of key points from presentations, and discussions, and two science-policy roundtable sessions. The sym...

Marine Reserves as a Tool for Ecosystem-Based Management: The Potential Importance of Megafauna

T state of the global oceans is rapidly deteriorating, with dire consequences for marine species (Jackson et al. 2001). Historically,most conservation efforts have focused on terrestrial systems, but it is becoming increasingly apparent that conservation efforts are urgently required for the oceans as well (Myers et al. 1997, Casey and Myers 1998). Recently, significant attention has been given...