Learning about social-ecological trade-offs

Learning about social-ecological trade-offs

Trade-offs are manifestations of the complex dynamics in interdependent social-ecological systems. Addressing tradeoffs involves challenges of perception due to the dynamics of interdependence. We outline the challenges associated with addressing trade-offs and analyze knowledge coproduction as a practice that may contribute to tackling trade-offs in social-ecological systems. We discuss this t...

Life history trade-offs assemble ecological guilds.

Ecological theory predicts that competition for a limiting resource will lead to the exclusion of species unless the within-species effects outweigh the between-species effects. Understanding how multiple competitors might coexist on a single resource has focused on the prescriptive formalism of a necessary niche width and limiting similarity. Here, we show how continuously varying life histori...

Detecting Ecological Trade-offs Using Selection Experiments

Theories of the evolution of niche breadth usually depend on the assumption that genotypes that are well adapted to exploit one habitat or resource are not well adapted to others. Such ‘‘trade-offs’’ are often apparent in interspecific comparisons, but have been harder to document at the within-population level. Selection experiments provide a promising means for detecting within-population tra...

Mutual Learning with Trade-Offs

Ocean Acidification May Aggravate Social-Ecological Trade-Offs in Coastal Fisheries

Ocean Acidification (OA) will influence marine ecosystems by changing species abundance and composition. Major effects are described for calcifying organisms, which are significantly impacted by decreasing pH values. Direct effects on commercially important fish are less well studied. The early life stages of fish populations often lack internal regulatory mechanisms to withstand the effects of...