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Ellen K. Pikitch
Researcher at Stony Brook University
Publications - 71
Citations - 9463
Ellen K. Pikitch is an academic researcher from Stony Brook University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Fishing. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 65 publications receiving 8273 citations. Previous affiliations of Ellen K. Pikitch include University of Miami & Imperial College London.
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Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
James A. Estes,John Terborgh,Justin S. Brashares,Mary E. Power,Joel Berger,William J. Bond,Stephen R. Carpenter,Timothy E. Essington,Robert D. Holt,Jeremy B. C. Jackson,Robert J. Marquis,Lauri Oksanen,Tarja Oksanen,Robert T. Paine,Ellen K. Pikitch,William J. Ripple,Stuart A. Sandin,Marten Scheffer,Thomas W. Schoener,Jonathan B. Shurin,Anthony R. E. Sinclair,Michael E. Soulé,Risto Virtanen,David A. Wardle +23 more
TL;DR: This empirical work supports long-standing theory about the role of top-down forcing in ecosystems but also highlights the unanticipated impacts of trophic cascades on processes as diverse as the dynamics of disease, wildfire, carbon sequestration, invasive species, and biogeochemical cycles.
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Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management
Ellen K. Pikitch,Christine Santora,Elizabeth A. Babcock,Andrew Bakun,Ramón Bonfil,David O. Conover,Paul K. Dayton,Phaedra Doukakis,David Fluharty,Burr Heneman,Edward D. Houde,Jason S. Link,P. A. Livingston,Marc Mangel,M. K. McAllister,J. Pope,Keith Sainsbury +16 more
TL;DR: Pikitch et al. as discussed by the authors describe the potential benefits of implementation of ecosystem-based fishery management that, in their view, far outweigh the difficulties of making the transition from a management system based on maximizing individual species.
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Global estimates of shark catches using trade records from commercial markets.
Shelley Clarke,Murdoch K. McAllister,E. J. Milner-Gulland,G. P. Kirkwood,Catherine G. J. Michielsens,David J. Agnew,Ellen K. Pikitch,Hideki Nakano,Mahmood S. Shivji +8 more
TL;DR: The results provide the first fishery-independent estimate of the scale of shark catches worldwide and indicate that shark biomass in the fin trade is three to four times higher than shark catch figures reported in the only global data base.
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Status, trends and management of sturgeon and paddlefish fisheries
Ellen K. Pikitch,Phaedra Doukakis,Liz Lauck,Prosanta Chakrabarty,Daniel L. Erickson,Rickenbacker Causeway +5 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that, with few exceptions, sturgeon and paddlefish are imperilled across the globe and long-term survival in the wild is in jeopardy and recommendations for priority conservation action for the future are offered.
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The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems
Ellen K. Pikitch,Konstantine J. Rountos,Timothy E. Essington,Christine Santora,Daniel Pauly,Reg Watson,Ussif Rashid Sumaila,P. Dee Boersma,Ian L. Boyd,David O. Conover,Philippe Cury,Selina S. Heppell,Edward D. Houde,Marc Mangel,Keith Sainsbury,Robert S. Steneck,Tess M Geers,Natasha J. Gownaris,Stephan B. Munch +18 more
TL;DR: Forage fish play a pivotal role in marine ecosystems and economies worldwide by sustaining many predators and fisheries directly and indirectly as discussed by the authors, and they contribute a total of about $16.9 billion USD to global fisheries values annually.