Adrian C. Stier

TL;DR: In this paper, the main ecological services across a variety of estuarine and coastal ecosystems (ECEs) including marshes, mangroves, nearshore coral reefs, seagrass beds, and sand beaches and dunes are reviewed.

TL;DR: This article argues that modelers should abandon frequentist statistical hypothesis tests applied to simulation model output as a misuse of statistical theory, and encourages instead a focus on the magnitude of differences between simulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors distill a set of seven principles to guide effective management in ecosystems with tipping points, derived from the best available science, based on observations that tipping points are possible everywhere, are associated with intense and/or multifaceted human use, may be preceded by changes in early warning indicators, may redistribute benefits among stakeholders, affect the relative costs of action and inaction, and often require an adaptive response to monitoring.

TL;DR: Characterising the predators' functional responses and accounting for prey depletion reduces biases in detection, estimation, interpretation and generalisation of the emergent effects of predator diversity on prey survival.

TL;DR: This work uses two food webs with parallel conservation challenges, the Northeast Pacific Ocean and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, to demonstrate legal/policy conflicts and the policy levers that exist to ameliorate conflicts and suggests a framework that incorporates multispecies science, policy tools, and tradeoff analyses into management.