The importance of studying and managing salmon within an ecosystem perspective
Todd Pearsons
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
PowerPoint Presentation
Slide 3
Implications
- We shouldn’t expect that altering the abundance of a strong interactor like salmon will not have impacts to other species
- In the face of this reality and complexity, how should we focus our limited budgets and energies?
Critical Ecological Interactions
Rewards of Multi-species Perspective
- Managers have information to facilitate desirable interactions and minimize undesirable ones resulting in better net benefit to community
- Management actions that have unintended consequences (impacts to ESA) can be corrected
Thanks
- Molly Kelly constructed the first 2 groovy figures