ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach.
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- The combined effects of multiple stressors in an endangered, long-lived species: Lessons learned and ways forward.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Clinical Chemistry Reference Intervals for Health Assessment in Wild Adult Harbour Seals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Multivariate signals of population collapse in a high-throughput ecological experiment.Ecology · 2025Article
- The Dead Do Tell Tales: Using Pathology Data From Cetacean Necropsy Reports to Gain Insights Into Animal Health.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Body size, nutritional state and endocrine state are associated with calving probability in a long-lived marine species.The Journal of animal ecology · 2025Article
- Bayesian Estimation of Individual Gray Whale Space Use Reveals Differential Exposure to Stressors.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
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- Navigating the unknown: assessing anthropogenic threats to beaked whales, family Ziphiidae.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Decreasing body size is associated with reduced calving probability in critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- The plasma proteome reveals markers of recent and repeated stress in free-ranging seals.Conservation physiology · 2024Article
- Assessing variation in faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in gray whales exposed to anthropogenic stressors.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
Assessing cumulative effects of human activities on ecosystems is required by many jurisdictions, but current science cannot meet regulatory demands. Regulations define them as effect(s) of one human action combined with other actions. Here we argue for an approach that evaluates the cumulative risk of multiple stressors for protected wildlife populations within their ecosystems. Monitoring effects of each stressor is necessary but not sufficient to estimate how multiple stressors interact to affect wildlife populations. Examining the mechanistic pathways, from cellular to ecological, by which stressors affect individuals can help prioritize stressors and interpret how they interact. Our approach uses health indicators to accumulate the effects of stressors on individuals and to estimate changes in vital rates, driving population status. We advocate using methods well-established in human health and integrating them into ecosystem-based management to protect the health of commercially and culturally important wildlife populations and to protect against risk of extinction for threatened species. Our approach will improve abilities to conserve and manage ecosystems but will also demand significant increases in research and monitoring effort. We advocate for increased investment proportional to the economic scale of human activities in the Anthropocene and their pervasive effects on ecology and biodiversity.
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