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Copyright

Stephanie J. Green;

Published On

2025-01-30

Page Range

pp. 173–188

Language

  • English

Print Length

16 pages

11. Trait-based tools aid conservation planning for predator range shifts

Chapter of: Navigating Our Way to Solutions in Marine Conservation(pp. 173–188)
Stephanie J. Green. Understanding the dynamics of marine food webs—who eats whom and where—is challenging science. Historically, it has been primarily empirical, sampling prey distributions and characterizing diets of predators through tedious and slow sample processing. We usually describe what food webs used to be like and how we think they functioned in the past. But to predict the structure and function of marine food webs under climate change, this post-hoc approach is doomed to failure. We know both predators and prey are on the move, so when and under what circumstances they will encounter each other is challenging. And knowing what novel predators will eat from novel prey assemblages is a challenge. Here, Green offers new trait-based tools to aid conservation planning for predicted predator range shifts.

Contributors

Stephanie Green

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4705-7859

Dr. Stephanie Green’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of biodiversity change in marine and freshwater ecosystems, with the goal of developing science-based tools to inform conservation and restoration under global change. Her lab uses a range of methods—including behavioural observation, field experiments, theoretical and statistical models, stakeholder surveys, and studies along environmental disturbance gradients— to understand how drivers like biological invasion, climate change, and harvesting are altering the structure and function of aquatic ecosystems and the goods and services they provide to people. Her projects feature strong partnerships with practitioners and local community members to ensure that the research addresses practical information needs, as well as intriguing ecological questions. She also pair ecological and social science approaches to understand the consequences of conservation and restoration interventions for coupled human-natural systems.