ReviewJournal of fish biology2022
The potential of historical ecology to aid understanding of human-ocean interactions throughout the Anthropocene.
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- Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Historical Range Contraction and Extent of Harbour Porpoises (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- The Very Long-term Iberian Fish Database Archaeological Fish Occurrences within the Iberian Peninsula.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Italian still life paintings as a resource for reconstructing past Mediterranean aquatic biodiversity.npj biodiversity · 2025Article
- A window to the past and future aquaculture in the Gulf of California: the abundant times of 'Meyibó'.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- 'The fish that stop': drivers of historical decline for Pacific cod and implications for modern management in an era of rapidly changing climate.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Ecological legacy of Indigenous dispossession: disruption of ancestral sea gardens by commercial clam fisheries in British Columbia, 1882-1985.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Three centuries of biogeochemical change in a temperate embayment as revealed by sediment core stable isotopes, radiometric dating, and historical ecology.Marine ecology progress series · 2025Article
- Cod, construction, and communities: Relations between fish and architectural history in Ísafjörður, Iceland.Open research Europe · 2025Article
- From Extermination to Conservation: Historical Records of Shark Presence during the Early and Development Phase of the Greek Fishery.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The potential of historical ecology to aid understanding of human-ocean interactions throughout the Anthropocene.Journal of fish biology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Marine historical ecology emerged in the scholarly literature with the aim of understanding long-term dynamics in marine ecosystems and the outcomes of past human-ocean interactions. The use of historical sources, which differ in temporal scale and resolution to most scientific monitoring data, present both opportunities and challenges for informing our understanding of past marine ecosystems and the ways in which human communities made use of them. With an emphasis upon marine social-ecological changes over the past 200 years, I present an overview of the relevant historical ecology literature and summarise how this approach generates a richer understanding of human-ocean interactions and the legacies associated with human-induced ecosystem change. Marine historical ecology methodologies continue to be developed, whereas expanded inter- and multidisciplinary collaborations provide exciting avenues for future discoveries. Beyond scholarship, historical ecology presents opportunities to foster a more sustainable relationship with oceans going forward: by challenging ingrained perceptions of what is "normal" within marine ecosystems, reconnecting human communities to the oceans and providing cautionary lessons and exemplars of sustainable human-ocean interactions from the past. To leverage these opportunities, scholars must work alongside practitioners, managers and policy makers to foster mutual understanding, explore new opportunities to communicate historical findings and address the challenges of integrating historical data into modern-day frameworks.
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