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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Carl J. Walters is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to several subfields including global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, aquatic science, and ocean engineering.

The scientist has published extensively in areas related to marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies. Other notable topics include fish biology and ecology studies, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine animal studies, and water resources management and optimization.

The following are some recent publications authored or co-authored by Carl J. Walters:

  • Advancing Global Ecological Modeling Capabilities to Simulate Future Trajectories of Change in Marine Ecosystems, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Saving large fish through harvest slots outperforms the classical minimum-length limit when the aim is to achieve multiple harvest and catch-related fisheries objectives, 2020, Fish and Fisheries
  • Alleviating Growth and Recruitment Overfishing through Simple Management Changes: Insights from an Overexploited Long-Lived Fish, 2021, Marine and Coastal Fisheries
  • China's fish maw demand and its implications for fisheries in source countries, 2021, Marine Policy
  • Calibrating ecosystem models to support ecosystem-based management of marine systems, 2024, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Villy Christensen
  • Abdulrahman Ben-Hasan
  • Marta Coll
  • Robert Ahrens
  • Christopher L. Cahill

Walters has published in various peer-reviewed journals multiple times, with frequent publications in:

  • Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Marine and Coastal Fisheries
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • PLoS ONE

In 1998, Carl J. Walters was honored as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada by the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Quantitative fisheries stock assessment : choice, dynamics, and uncertainty

    Ray Hilborn;Carl J. Walters

  • Adaptive Management of Renewable Resources

    Carl J. Walters

  • Uncertainty, Resource Exploitation, and Conservation: Lessons from History.

    Donald Ludwig;Ray Hilborn;Carl Walters

  • Towards sustainability in world fisheries

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Tony J. Pitcher

  • Ecopath with Ecosim: methods, capabilities and limitations

    Villy Christensen;Carl J Walters

  • Large‐Scale Management Experiments and Learning by Doing

    Carl J. Walters;C. S. Holling

  • Quantitative fisheries stock assessment

    Ray Hilborn;Carl J. Walters

  • Ecopath, Ecosim, and Ecospace as tools for evaluating ecosystem impact of fisheries

    Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen;Carl Walters

  • Fisheries Ecology and Management

    Carl J. Walters;Steven J. D. Martell

  • Structuring dynamic models of exploited ecosystems from trophic mass-balance assessments

    Carl Walters;Villy Christensen;Daniel Pauly

  • Challenges in adaptive management of riparian and coastal ecosystems

    Carl Walters

  • Canada's recreational fisheries: the invisible collapse?

    John R. Post;Michael Sullivan;Sean Cox;Nigel P. Lester

  • When can marine reserves improve fisheries management

    Ray Hilborn;Kevin Stokes;Jean Jacques Maguire;Tony Smith

  • ECOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

    Carl J. Walters;Ray Hilborn

  • Hundred‐year decline of North Atlantic predatory fishes

    Villy Christensen;Sylvie Guénette;Johanna J Heymans;Carl J Walters

  • Cultivation/depensation effects on juvenile survival and recruitment: implications for the theory of fishing

    Carl Walters;James F Kitchell

  • Ecospace: Prediction of Mesoscale Spatial Patterns in Trophic Relationships of Exploited Ecosystems, with Emphasis on the Impacts of Marine Protected Areas

    Carl Walters;Daniel Pauly;Villy Christensen

  • Lessons for stock assessment from the northern cod collapse

    C. Walters;J.-J. Maguire

  • Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management

    Johanna Jacomina Heymans;Marta Coll;Marta Coll;Jason S. Link;Steven Mackinson

  • Recruitment Limitation as a Consequence of Natural Selection for Use of Restricted Feeding Habitats and Predation Risk Taking by Juvenile Fishes

    Carl J. Walters;Francis Juanes

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington
Villy Christensen
Villy Christensen University of British Columbia
James F. Kitchell
James F. Kitchell University of Wisconsin–Madison
Timothy E. Essington
Timothy E. Essington University of Washington
Daniel Pauly
Daniel Pauly University of British Columbia
Jeroen Steenbeek
Jeroen Steenbeek Spanish National Research Council
Randall M. Peterman
Randall M. Peterman Simon Fraser University
Marta Coll
Marta Coll Spanish National Research Council
Olaf P. Jensen
Olaf P. Jensen University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeremy S. Collie
Jeremy S. Collie University of Rhode Island

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