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dc.creatorGómez-Canchong,Paúl
dc.creatorQuiñones,Renato A.
dc.creatorNeira,Sergio
dc.creatorArancibia,Hugo
dc.date2017-01-01
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-03T13:28:11Z
dc.date.available2019-05-03T13:28:11Z
dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-560X2017000400748
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/88348
dc.descriptionABSTRACT The continental shelf off central-south Chile sustains highly productive fisheries. The sustainability of these resources is nevertheless in jeopardy since many of them are either overexploited or collapsed. Using an allometrically (size-based) parameterized model of the shelf s food web, we analyze the likely ecosystem effects of fishing in this system by measuring the response of several ecological indicators to changes in fishing pressure. Indicators performed as follows: i) insensitive (community biomass stability, clustering coefficient), ii) varying directly (number of species going "extinct") or inversely (Normalized biomass size spectra (NBSS) coefficient of determination), and iii) abrupt inverse change, but then insensitive beyond a threshold (Fishing in Balance (FiB) index, Mean Trophic Level of the Catch, NBSS slope, and total community biomass). The latter four indicators seem less informative for management once a fishery has developed. Simulations showed that fishing any single species affected several species through food web-mediated mechanisms, then making difficult to predict the effects of fishing on the abundance of target and non-target species. Therefore, conservation measures should not rely exclusively on reducing fishing mortality for a given target species, but also take into account the status of interacting species.
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dc.publisherPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Facultad de Recursos Naturales. Escuela de Ciencias del Mar
dc.relation10.3856/vol45-issue4-fulltext-11
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceLatin american journal of aquatic research v.45 n.4 2017
dc.subjectallometry
dc.subjectbio-energetic modeling
dc.subjectecological indicators
dc.subjectfishing pressure
dc.subjectfood webs
dc.subjectcentral-south Chile
dc.titleModelling fishery-induced impacts on the food web of the continental shelf off central-south Chile using a size-based network approach


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