Publications

Essington, T.E. 2021.  Introduction to Quantitative Ecology.  Oxford University Press.  ISBN: 9780192843470. 336 Pages

Essington, T. E., M. E. Matta, B. A. Black, T. E. Helser, and P. D. Spencer. 2021. Fitting growth models to otolith increments to reveal time-varying growth. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Koehn, L.K, M.C. Siple, T.E. Essington. 2021. A structured seabird population model reveals how alternative forage fish control rules benefit seabirds and fisheries. Ecological Applications.  In press

Sanchirico, J.S., T.E. Essington. 2021. Direct and ancillary benefits of ecosystem based fisheries management in forage fish fisheries. Ecological Applications, In press

Grüss, A., J. T. Thorson, C. C. Stawitz, J. C. P. Reum, S. K. Rohan, and C. L. Barnes. 2021. Synthesis of interannual variability in spatial demographic processes supports the strong influence of cold-pool extent on eastern Bering Sea walleye pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus). Progress in Oceanography 194:102569.

Rohan, S. K., S. Kotwicki, K. A. Kearney, J. A. Schulien, E. A. Laman, E. D. Cokelet, D. A. Beauchamp, L. L. Britt, K. Y. Aydin, and S. G. Zador. 2021. Using bottom trawls to monitor subsurface water clarity in marine ecosystems. Progress in Oceanography 194:102554.

Austin, C. S., T. E. Essington, and T. P. Quinn. 2019. Spawning and emergence phenology of bull trout Salvelinus confluentus under differing thermal regimes. Journal of Fish Biology 94:191–195.

Essington, T., E. J. Ward, T. B. Francis, C. Greene, L. Kuehne, and D. Lowry. 2021. Historical reconstruction of the Puget Sound (USA) groundfish community. Marine Ecology Progress Series 657:173–189.

Grüss, A., J. L. Pirtle, J. T. Thorson, M. R. Lindeberg, A. D. Neff, S. G. Lewis, and T. E. Essington. 2021. Modeling nearshore fish habitats using Alaska as a regional case study. Fisheries Research 238:105905.

Ng, E. L., J. J. Deroba, T. E. Essington, A. Grüss, B. E. Smith, and J. T. Thorson. 2021. Predator stomach contents can provide accurate indices of prey biomass. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Koehn, L. E., T. E. Essington, P. S. Levin, K. N. Marshall, L. G. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, J. H. Grabowski, E. Houde, O. P. Jensen, C. Möllmann, and A. D. M. Smith. 2020. Case studies demonstrate capacity for a structured planning process for ecosystem-based fisheries management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 77:1256–1274.

Moriarty, P. E., T. E. Essington, J. K. Horne, J. E. Keister, L. Li, S. L. Parker‐Stetter, and M. Sato. (2020). Unexpected food web responses to low dissolved oxygen in an estuarine fjord. Ecological Applications published on-line ahead of print

Siple, M. C., T. E. Essington, L. A. K. Barnett, and M. D. Scheuerell. 2020. Limited evidence for sardine and anchovy asynchrony: re-examining an old story. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287:20192781.

Ohlberger, J., D. E. Schindler, E. J. Ward, T. E. Walsworth, and T. E. Essington. 2019. Resurgence of an apex marine predator and the decline in prey body size. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116:26682–26689.

Austin, C. S., T. E. Essington, and T. P. Quinn. 2019. Spawning and emergence phenology of bull trout Salvelinus confluentus under differing thermal regimes. Journal of Fish Biology 94:191–195.

Embke, H. S., A. L. Rypel, S. R. Carpenter, G. G. Sass, D. Ogle, T. Cichosz, J. Hennessy, T. E. Essington, and M. J. V. Zanden. 2019. Production dynamics reveal hidden overharvest of inland recreational fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Hodgson, E. E., T. E. Essington, J. F. Samhouri, E. H. Allison, N. J. Bennett, A. Bostrom, A. C. Cullen, S. Kasperski, P. S. Levin, and M. R. Poe. 2019. Integrated Risk Assessment for the Blue Economy. Frontiers in Marine Science 6.

Walsworth, T. E., D. E. Schindler, M. A. Colton, M. S. Webster, S. R. Palumbi, P. J. Mumby, T. E. Essington, and M. L. Pinsky. 2019. Management for network diversity speeds evolutionary adaptation to climate change. Nature Climate Change:1.

Grüss, A., C. R. Biggs, W. D. Heyman, and B. Erisman. 2019. Protecting juveniles, spawners or both: A practical statistical modelling approach for the design of marine protected areas. Journal of Applied Ecology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13468.

Fu, C., Y. Xu, A. Bundy, A. Grüss, M. Coll, J. J. Heymans, E. A. Fulton, L. Shannon, G. Halouani, L. Velez, E. Akoğlu, C. P. Lynam, and Y.-J. Shin. 2019. Making ecological indicators management ready: Assessing the specificity, sensitivity, and threshold response of ecological indicators. Ecological Indicators 105:16-28.

Grüss, A., and J. T. Thorson. 2019. Developing spatio-temporal models using multiple data types for evaluating population trends and habitat usage. ICES Journal of Marine Science, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsz075.

Grüss, A., M. L. Palomares, J. H. Poelen, J. R. Barile, C. D. Aldemita, S. R. Ortiz, N. Barrier, Y.-J. Shin, J. Simons, and D. Pauly. 2019. Building bridges between global information systems on marine organisms and ecosystem models. Ecological Modelling 398:1-19.

Grüss, A., J. F. Walter III, E. A. Babcock, F. C. Forrestal, J. T. Thorson, M. V. Lauretta, and M. J. Schirripa. 2019. Evaluation of the impacts of different treatments of spatio-temporal variation in catch-per-unit-effort standardization models. Fisheries Research 213:75-93.

Grüss, A., M. D. Drexler, E. Chancellor, C. H. Ainsworth, J. S. Gleason, J. M. Tirpak, M. S. Love, and E. A. Babcock. 2019. Representing species distributions in spatially-explicit ecosystem models from presence-only data. Fisheries Research 210:89-105.

Dove, D., M. Weijerman, A. Grüss, T. Acoba, and J. R. Smith JR. 2019. Substrate mapping to inform ecosystem science and marine spatial planning around the Main Hawaiian Islands. In: Harris, P., and E. Baker (Eds), Seafloor Geomorphology as Benthic Habitat: GeoHab Atlas of seafloor geomorphic features and benthic habitat, 2nd Edition. Elsevier, London, UK.

Austin, C. S., T. E. Essington, and T. P. Quinn. 2019. Spawning and emergence phenology of bull trout Salvelinus confluentus under differing thermal regimes. Journal of Fish Biology 94:191–195.

Hodgson, E. E., B. S. Halpern, and T. E. Essington. 2019. Moving Beyond Silos in Cumulative Effects Assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7.

Jacobsen, N. S., J. T. Thorson, and T. E. Essington. 2019. Detecting mortality variation to enhance forage fish population assessments. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76:124–135.

Marshall, K. N., L. E. Koehn, P. S. Levin, T. E. Essington, and O. P. Jensen. 2019. Inclusion of ecosystem information in US fish stock assessments suggests progress toward ecosystem-based fisheries management. ICES Journal of Marine Science 76:1–9.

Li, L., J. E. Keister, T. E. Essington, and J. Newton. 2019. Vertical distributions and abundances of life stages of the euphausiid Euphausia pacifica in relation to oxygen and temperature in a seasonally hypoxic fjord. Journal of Plankton Research 41:188–202.

Kaplan, I. C., T. B. Francis, A. E. Punt, L. E. Koehn, E. Curchitser, F. Hurtado-Ferro, K. F. Johnson, S. E. Lluch-Cota, W. J. Sydeman, T. E. Essington, N. Taylor, K. Holsman, A. D. MacCall, and P. S. Levin. 2019. A multi-model approach to understanding the role of Pacific sardine in the California Current food web. Marine Ecology Progress Series 617–618:307–321.

Siple, M. C., T. E. Essington, and É. E. Plagányi. 2019. Forage fish fisheries management requires a tailored approach to balance trade-offs. Fish and Fisheries 20:110–124.

Stawitz, C. C., and T. E. Essington. 2019. Somatic growth contributes to population variation in marine fishes. Journal of Animal Ecology 88:315–329.

Rohan, S.K., T.W. Buckley. 2018. Trophic niche separation between sympatric sibling flatfishes in relation to gill raker morphology. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147: 431–443.

Bolser, D. G., A. Grüss, M. A. Lopez, E. M. Reed, I. Mascareñas-Osorio, and B. E. Erisman. 2018. The influence of sample distribution on growth model output for a highly-exploited marine fish, the Gulf corvina (Cynoscion othonopterus). PeerJ 6:e5582.

Essington, T. E., J. N. Sanchirico, and M. L. Baskett. 2018. Economic value of ecological information in ecosystem-based natural resource management depends on exploitation history. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:1658–1663.

Hodgson, E. E., I. C. Kaplan, K. N. Marshall, J. Leonard, T. E. Essington, D. S. Busch, E. A. Fulton, C. J. Harvey, A. J. Hermann, and P. McElhany. 2018. Consequences of spatially variable ocean acidification in the California Current: Lower pH drives strongest declines in benthic species in southern regions while greatest economic impacts occur in northern regions. Ecological Modelling 383:106–117.

Jacobsen, N. S., and T. E. Essington.2018. Natural mortality augments population fluctuations of forage fish. Fish and Fisheries 19: 791 – 797.

Froehlich, H. E., N. S. Jacobsen, T. E. Essington, T. Clavelle, and B. S. Halpern. 2018. Avoiding the ecological limits of forage fish for fed aquaculture. Nature Sustainability 1:298–303.

Marshall, K. N., P. S. Levin, T. E. Essington, L. E. Koehn, L. G. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, L. R. Gerber, J. H. Grabowski, E. Houde, O. P. Jensen, C. Möllmann, K. Rose, J. N. Sanchirico, and A. D. M. Smith. 2018. Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management for Social-Ecological Systems: Renewing the Focus in the United States with Next Generation Fishery Ecosystem Plans. Conservation Letters 11.

Oken, K. L., T. E. Essington, and C. Fu. 2018. Variability and stability in predation landscapes: A cross-ecosystem comparison on the potential for predator control in temperate marine ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries.

Levin, P. S., T. E. Essington, K. N. Marshall, L. E. Koehn, L. G. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, L. R. Gerber, J. H. Grabowski, E. Houde, O. P. Jensen, C. Möllmann, K. Rose, J. N. Sanchirico, and A. D. M. Smith. 2018. Building effective fishery ecosystem plans. Marine Policy 92:48–57.

Hodgson, E. E., T. E. Essington, and B. S. Halpern. 2017. Density dependence governs when population responses to multiple stressors are magnified or mitigated. Ecology 98:2673–2683.

Kaplan, I. C., L. E. Koehn, E. E. Hodgson, K. N. Marshall, and T. E. Essington. 2017. Modeling food web effects of low sardine and anchovy abundance in the California Current. Ecological Modelling 359:1–24.

Koehn, L. E., T. E. Essington, K. N. Marshall, W. J. Sydeman, A. I. Szoboszlai, and J. A. Thayer. 2017. Trade-offs between forage fish fisheries and their predators in the California Current. ICES Journal of Marine Science.9: 2448 – 2458.

Lynham, J., B. S. Halpern, T. Blenckner, T. Essington, J. Estes, M. Hunsicker, C. Kappel, A. K. Salomon, C. Scarborough, K. A. Selkoe, and A. Stier. 2017. Costly stakeholder participation creates inertia in marine ecosystems. Marine Policy 76:122–129.

McGilliard, C. R., A. E. Punt, R. Hilborn, and T. Essington. 2017. Modeling the impacts of two age-related portfolio effects on recruitment variability with and without a marine reserve. Ecological Applications 27:1985–2000.

Siple, M. C., A. O. Shelton, T. B. Francis, D. Lowry, A. P. Lindquist, and T. E. Essington. 2017. Contributions of adult mortality to declines of Puget Sound Pacific herring. ICES Journal of Marine Science.75: 319 – 329

Walsworth, T. E., D. E. Schindler, T. E. Essington, and S. Vamosi. 2017. Constrained by markets: processing costs limit potential for managing predator-prey interactions in a commercial fishery. Journal of Applied Ecology.54: 1946 – 1956

Arostegui, M. C., T. E. Essington, and T. P. Quinn. 2017. Interpreting vertical movement behavior with holistic examination of depth distribution: a novel method reveals cryptic diel activity patterns of Chinook salmon in the Salish Sea. Animal Biotelemetry 5: 2

Koslow, J., H. McMonagle, and W. Watson. 2017. The influence of climate on the biodiversity and community structure of fishes in the southern California Current, 1969-2011. Marine Ecology Progress Series 571:193-206.

Barnett, L. A. K., T. A. Branch, R. A. Ranasinghe, and T. E. Essington. 2017a. Old-Growth Fishes Become Scarce under Fishing. Curr Biol 27:2843-2848 e2.

Barnett, L. A. K., S. M. Hennessey, T. E. Essington, A. O. Shelton, B. E. Feist, T. A. Branch, and M. M. McClure. 2017b. Getting to the bottom of fishery interactions with living habitats: spatiotemporal trends in disturbance of corals and sponges on the US west coast. Marine Ecology Progress Series 574:29–47.

Marshall, K, I Kaplan, E.E. Hodgson, A. Hermann, S.D. Busch, P. McElhany, T.E. Essington, C.J. Harvey, E.E. Fulton 2017. Risks of ocean acidification in the California Current food web and fisheries: ecosystem model projections. Global Change Biology 23: 1525 – 1539

Froehlich, H.E., T.E. Essington, P.S. McDonald. 2017s. When does hypoxia affect management performance of a fishery? A Management Strategy Evaluation of Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) fisheries in Hood Canal, Washington, U.S.A. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.74: 922 – 932

Essington, T.E., L. Ciannelli, S.S. Heppell, P.S. Levin, T.R. McClanahan, F. Micheli, E.E. Plagányi, I.E. van Putten I.E. 2016 Empiricism and modeling for marine fisheries – advancing an interdisciplinary science. Ecosystems. 20: 237 – 244

Sato, M., J. K. Horne, S. L. Parker-Stetter, T. E. Essington, J. E. Keister, P. E. Moriarty, L. Li, and J. Newton. 2016. Impacts of moderate hypoxia on fish and zooplankton prey distributions in a coastal fjord. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 560: 57 – 72

Moriarty, P.E., T.E., Essington, T.E., E.J. Ward 2017. A novel method to estimate prey contributions to predator diets. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74: 168 – 177.

Oken, K. L., and T. E. Essington. 2016. Evaluating the effect of a selective piscivore fishery on rockfish recovery within marine protected areas. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil 73: 2267 – 2277.

Hodgson, E. E., T. E. Essington, and I. C. Kaplan. 2016. Extending Vulnerability Assessment to Include Life Stages Considerations. PLoS ONE 11:e0158917.

Melnychuk, M. C., T. E. Essington, T. A. Branch, S. S. Heppell, O. P. Jensen, J. S. Link, S. J. D. Martell, A. M. Parma, and A. D. M. Smith. 2016. Which design elements of individual quota fisheries help to achieve management objectives? Fish and Fisheries:17:126-142

Selkoe, K. A., T. Blenckner, M. R. Caldwell, L. B. Crowder, A. L. Erickson, T. E. Essington, J. A. Estes, R. M. Fujita, B. S. Halpern, M. E. Hunsicker, C. V. Kappel, R. P. Kelly, J. N. Kittinger, P. S. Levin, J. M. Lynham, M. E. Mach, R. G. Martone, L. A. Mease, A. K. Salomon, J. F. Samhouri, C. Scarborough, A. C. Stier, C. White, and J. Zedler. 2015. Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1:art17.

Koehn, L. E., T. E. Essington, K. N. Marshall, I. C. Kaplan, W. J. Sydeman, A. I. Szoboszlai, and J. A. Thayer. 2016. Developing a high taxonomic resolution food web model to assess the functional role of forage fish in the California Current ecosystem. Ecological Modelling 335:87-100.

Punt, A. E., A. D. MacCall, T. E. Essington, T. B. Francis, F. Hurtado-Ferro, K. F. Johnson, I. C. Kaplan, L. E. Koehn, P. S. Levin, and W. J. Sydeman. 2016. Exploring the implications of the harvest control rule for Pacific sardine, accounting for predator dynamics: A MICE model. Ecological Modelling 337:79-95.

Kamikawa, K. T., E. Cruz, T. E. Essington, J. Hospital, J. K. T. Brodziak, and T. A. Branch. 2015. Length-weight relationships for 85 fish species from Guam. Journal Of Applied Ichthyology 31:1171-1174.

Jacobsen, N. S., T. E. Essington, and K. H. Andersen. 2016. Comparing model predictions for ecosystem based management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Stawitz, C. C., T. E. Essington, T. A. Branch, M. A. Haltuch, A. B. Hollowed, and P. D. Spencer. 2015. A state-space approach for detecting growth variation and application to North Pacific groundfish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72:1316-1328.

Selkoe, K. A., T. Blenckner, M. R. Caldwell, L. B. Crowder, A. L. Erickson, T. E. Essington, J. A. Estes, R. M. Fujita, B. S. Halpern, M. E. Hunsicker, C. V. Kappel, R. P. Kelly, J. N. Kittinger, P. S. Levin, J. M. Lynham, M. E. Mach, R. G. Martone, L. A. Mease, A. K. Salomon, J. F. Samhouri, C. Scarborough, A. C. Stier, C. White, and J. Zedler. 2015. Principles for managing marine ecosystems prone to tipping points. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability 1:art17.

McDonald, P. S., T. E. Essington, J. P. Davis, A. W. E. Galloway, B. C. Stevick, G. C. Jensen, G. R. Vanblaricom, and D. A. Armstrong. 2015. Distribution, Abundance, and Habitat Associations of a Large Bivalve (Panopea generosa) in a Eutrophic Fjord Estuary. Journal of Shellfish Research 34:137-145.

Kuriyama, P. T., M. C. Siple, E. E. Hodgson, E. M. Phillips, M. Burden, D. Fluharty, A. E. Punt, T. E. Essington, J. Henderschedt, and D. A. Armstrong. 2015. Issues at the fore in the land of Magnuson and Stevens: A summary of the 14th Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries. Marine Policy 54:118-121.

Froehlich, H. E., S. B. Roberts, and T. E. Essington. 2015. Evaluating hypoxia-inducible factor-1alpha mRNA expression in a pelagic fish, Pacific herring Clupea pallasii, as a biomarker for hypoxia exposure. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 189:58-66.

Essington, T. E., M. C. Siple, E. E. Hodgson, L. E. Koehn, P. E. Moriarty, K. L. Oken, and C. C. Stawitz. 2015. Reply to Szuwalski and Hilborn: Forage fish require an ecosystem approach. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.

Essington, T. E., P. E. Moriarty, H. E. Froehlich, E. E. Hodgson, L. E. Koehn, K. L. Oken, M. C. Siple, and C. C. Stawitz. 2015. Fishing amplifies forage fish population collapses. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 112:6648-6652.

Oken, K. L., and T. E. Essington. 2015. How detectable is predation in stage‐structured populations? Insights from a simulation‐testing analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology 84:60-70.

Essington, T. E., M. L. Baskett, J. N. Sanchirico, and C. Walters. 2015. A novel model of predator–prey interactions reveals the sensitivity of forage fish: piscivore fishery trade-offs to ecological conditions. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Whitehouse, G. A., K. Aydin, T. E. Essington, and G. L. Hunt. 2014. A trophic mass balance model of the eastern Chukchi Sea with comparisons to other high-latitude systems. Polar Biology 37:911-939.

Stachura, M. M., T. E. Essington, N. J. Mantua, A. B. Hollowed, M. A. Haltuch, P. D. Spencer, T. A. Branch, and M. J. Doyle. 2014. Linking Northeast Pacific recruitment synchrony to environmental variability. Fisheries Oceanography 23:389-408.

Sadorus, L. L., N. J. Mantua, T. Essington, B. Hickey, and S. Hare. 2014. Distribution patterns of Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) in relation to environmental variables along the continental shelf waters of the US West Coast and southern British Columbia. Fisheries Oceanography:23:225-241

Plagányi, E. E., and T. E. Essington. 2014. When the SURFs up, the forage are key. Fisheries Research 159:68-74.

Pikitch, E. K., K. J. Rountos, T. E. Essington, C. Santora, D. Pauly, R. Watson, U. R. Sumaila, P. D. Boersma, I. L. Boyd, D. O. Conover, P. Cury, S. S. Heppell, E. D. Houde, M. Mangel, É. Plagányi, K. Sainsbury, R. S. Steneck, T. M. Geers, N. Gownaris, and S. B. Munch. 2014. The global contribution of forage fish to marine fisheries and ecosystems. Fish and Fisheries 15:43-64.

Froehlich, H. E., T. E. Essington, A. H. Beaudreau, and P. S. Levin. 2014. Movement patterns and distributional shifts of Dungeness crab (Metacarcinus magister) and English sole (Parophrys vetulus) during seasonal hypoxia. Estuaries and Coasts 37:449-460.

Ferriss, B. E., and T. E. Essington. 2014. Can fish consumption rate estimates be improved by linking bioenergetics and mercury mass balance models? Application to tunas. Ecological Modelling 272:232-241.

Ferriss, B. E., and T. E. Essington. 2014. Does trophic structure dictate mercury concentrations in top predators? A comparative analysis of pelagic food webs in the Pacific Ocean. Ecological Modelling 278:18-28.

Essington, T. E., and S. B. Munch. 2014. Trade-offs between supportive and provisioning ecosystem services of forage species in marine food webs. Ecological Applications 24:1543-1557.

Essington, T. E., and K. Criddle. 2014. Putting a price tag on whales: Are conservation markets a viable conservation tool. Ecological Applications 24:3.

Defeo, O., M. Castrejón, R. Pérez-Castañeda, J. C. Castilla, N. L. Gutiérrez, T. E. Essington, and C. Folke. 2014. Co-management in Latin American small-scale shellfisheries: assessment from long-term case studies. Fish and Fisheries:n/a-n/a.

Cooke, S. J., R. Arlinghaus, D. M. Bartley, T. D. Beard, I. G. Cowx, T. E. Essington, O. P. Jensen, A. Lynch, W. W. Taylor, and R. Watson. 2014. Where the waters meet: Sharing ideas and experiences between inland and marine realms to promote sustainable fisheries management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

Baker, M. R., D. E. Schindler, T. E. Essington, and R. Hilborn. 2014. Accounting for escape mortality in fisheries: implications for stock productivity and optimal management. Ecological Applications 24:55-70.

Reum, J. C. P., T. E. Essington, C. M. Greene, C. A. Rice, P. Polte, and K. L. Fresh. 2013. Biotic and abiotic controls on body size during critical life history stages of a pelagic fish, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii). Fisheries Oceanography 22:324-336.

Peck, M. A., S. Neuenfeldt, T. E. Essington, V. M. Trenkel, A. Takasuka, H. Gislason, M. Dickey-Collas, K. H. Andersen, L. Ravn-Jonsen, N. Vestergaard, S. F. Kvamsdal, A. Gardmark, J. Link, and J. C. Rice. 2013. Forage Fish Interactions: a symposium on “Creating the tools for ecosystem-based management of marine resources”. ICES Journal of Marine Science 71:1-4.

Essington, T. E., and É. E. Plagányi. 2013. Pitfalls and guidelines for “recycling” models for ecosystem-based fisheries management: evaluating model suitability for forage fish fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science 71:90-104.

Essington, T. E., K. Dodd, and T. P. Quinn. 2013. Shifts in the estuarine demersal fish community following a fishery closure in Puget Sound, Washington. Fisheries Bulletin 111:205-217.

Collie, J. S., W. L. Adamowicz, M. W. Beck, B. Craig, T. E. Essington, D. Fluharty, J. Rice, and J. N. Sanchirico. 2013. Marine spatial planning in practice. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 117:1-11.

Reum, J. C. P., and T. E. Essington. 2012. Spatial and seasonal variation in δ15N and δ13C values in a mesopredator shark, Squalus suckleyi, revealed through multitissue analyses. Marine Biology 160:399-411.

Pikitch, E. K., P. D. Boersma, I. L. Boyd, D. O. Conover, P. Cury, T. E. Essington, S. S. Heppell, E. D. Houde, M. Mangel, D. Pauly, E. E. Plaganyi, K. Sainsbury, and R. Steneck. 2012. Little fish, big impact: Managing a crucial link in ocean food webs. Lenfest Ocean Program, Washington D.C.

Melnychuk, M. C., T. E. Essington, T. A. Branch, S. S. Heppell, O. P. Jensen, J. S. Link, S. J. D. Martell, A. M. Parma, J. G. Pope, and A. D. M. Smith. 2012. Can catch share fisheries better track management targets? Fish and Fisheries 13:267-290.

Lucey, S. M., A. M. Cook, J. L. Boldt, J. S. Link, T. E. Essington, and T. J. Miller. 2012. Comparative analyses of surplus production dynamics of functional feeding groups across 12 northern hemisphere marine ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 459:219-229.

Link, J. S., S. Gaichas, T. J. Miller, T. Essington, A. Bundy, J. Boldt, K. F. Drinkwater, and E. Moksness. 2012. Synthesizing lessons learned from comparing fisheries production in 13 northern hemisphere ecosystems: emergent fundamental features. Marine Ecology Progress Series 459:293-302.

Hunsicker, M. E., R. J. Olson, T. E. Essington, M. N. Maunder, L. M. Duffy, and J. F. Kitchell. 2012. Potential for top-down control on tropical tunas based on size structure of predator−prey interactions. Marine Ecology Progress Series 445:263-277.

Holsman, K. K., T. Essington, T. J. Miller, M. Koen-Alonso, and W. J. Stockhausen. 2012. Comparative analysis of cod and herring production dynamics across 13 northern hemisphere marine ecosystems. Marine Ecology Progress Series 459:231-246.

Gutierrez, N. L., S. R. Valencia, T. A. Branch, D. J. Agnew, J. K. Baum, P. L. Bianchi, J. Cornejo-Donoso, C. Costello, O. Defeo, T. E. Essington, R. Hilborn, D. D. Hoggarth, A. E. Larsen, C. Ninnes, K. Sainsbury, R. L. Selden, S. Sistla, A. D. Smith, A. Stern-Pirlot, S. J. Teck, J. T. Thorson, and N. E. Williams. 2012. Eco-label conveys reliable information on fish stock health to seafood consumers. PLoS ONE 7:e43765.

Gaichas, S., R. Gamble, M. Fogarty, H. Benoît, T. Essington, C. Fu, M. Koen-Alonso, and J. Link. 2012. Assembly rules for aggregate-species production models: simulations in support of management strategy evaluation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 459:275-292.

Essington, T. E., M. C. Melnychuk, T. A. Branch, S. S. Heppell, O. P. Jensen, J. S. Link, S. J. D. Martell, A. M. Parma, J. G. Pope, and A. D. M. Smith. 2012. Catch shares, fisheries, and ecological stewardship: a comparative analysis of resource responses to a rights-based policy instrument. Conservation Letters 5:186-195.

Reum, J. C. P., T. E. Essington, C. M. Greene, C. A. Rice, and K. L. Fresh. 2011. Multiscale influence of climate on estuarine populations of forage fish: the role of coastal upwelling, freshwater flow and temperature. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 425:203-215.

Reum, J. C. P., and T. E. Essington. 2011. Season- and depth-dependent variability of a demersal fish assemblage in a large fjord estuary (Puget Sound, Washington). Fishery Bulletin 109:186-197.

Hunsicker, M. E., L. Ciannelli, K. M. Bailey, J. A. Buckel, J. Wilson White, J. S. Link, T. E. Essington, S. Gaichas, T. W. Anderson, R. D. Brodeur, K. S. Chan, K. Chen, G. Englund, K. T. Frank, V. Freitas, M. A. Hixon, T. Hurst, D. W. Johnson, J. F. Kitchell, D. Reese, G. A. Rose, H. Sjodin, W. J. Sydeman, H. W. van der Veer, K. Vollset, and S. Zador. 2011. Functional responses and scaling in predator-prey interactions of marine fishes: contemporary issues and emerging concepts. Ecology Letters 14:1288-1299.

Hollowed, A. B., K. Y. Aydin, T. E. Essington, J. N. Ianelli, B. A. Megrey, A. E. Punt, and A. D. M. Smith. 2011. Experience with quantitative ecosystem assessment tools in the northeast Pacific. Fish and Fisheries 12:189-208.

Ferriss, B. E., and T. E. Essington. 2011. Regional patterns in mercury and selenium concentrations of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the Pacific Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68:2046-2056.

Estes, J. A., J. Terborgh, J. S. Brashares, M. E. Power, J. Berger, W. J. Bond, S. R. Carpenter, T. E. Essington, R. D. Holt, J. B. C. Jackson, R. J. Marquis, L. Oksanen, T. Oksanen, R. T. Paine, E. K. Pikitch, W. J. Ripple, S. A. Sandin, M. Scheffer, T. W. Schoener, J. B. Shurin, A. R. E. Sinclair, M. E. Soule, R. Virtanen, and D. A. Wardle. 2011. Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth. Science 333:301-306.

Essington, T. E., and A. E. Punt. 2011. Implementing Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management: Advances, Challenges and Emerging Tools. Fish and Fisheries 12:123-124.

Essington, T. E., T. Klinger, T. Conway-Cranos, J. Buchanan, A. James, J. Kerschner, I. Logan, and J. West. 2011. The biophysical condition of Puget Sound. Pages 205-423 in M. Ruckelshaus, Conway-Cranos, T., editor. Puget Sound Science Update. Puget Sound Partnership, Olympia, WA.

Walters, C. J., and T. E. Essington. 2010. Recovery of bioenergetics parameters from information on growth – overview of an approach based on statistical analysis of tagging and size at age data. The Open Fish Science Journal 3:52-68.

Link, J. S., B. A. Megrey, T. J. Miller, T. Essington, J. Boldt, A. Bundy, E. Moksness, K. F. Drinkwater, and R. I. Perry. 2010. Comparative analysis of marine ecosystems: international production modelling workshop. Biology Letters 6:723-726.

Hunsicker, M. E., T. E. Essington, R. Watson, and U. R. Sumaila. 2010. The contribution of cephalopods to global marine fisheries: can we have our squid and eat them too? Fish and Fisheries 11:421-438.

Hunsicker, M. E., T. E. Essington, K. Y. Aydin, and B. Ishida. 2010. Predatory role of the commander squid Berryteuthis magister in the eastern Bering Sea: insights from stable isotopes and food habits. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 415:91-108.

Essington, T. E., and C. E. Paulsen. 2010. Quantifying hypoxia impacts on an estuarine demersal community using a hierarchical ensemble approach. Ecosystems 13:1035-1048.

Essington, T. E. 2010. Ecological indicators display reduced variation in North American catch share fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:754-759.

Essington, T. E. 2010. Trophic cascades in open ocean ecosystems. Pages 91-105 in J. W. Terborgh and J. A. Estes, editors. The science of trophic cascades. Island Press, Washington D.C.

Courtenay, W. R., B. B. Collette, T. E. Essington, R. Hilborn, J. W. Orr, D. Pauly, J. E. Randall, and W. F. S. Vaniz. 2010. North Atlantic Fisheries: A Response to Criticism of the Proactive Proposal Reply. Fisheries 35:298-298.

Beaudreau, A. H., and T. E. Essington. 2010. Use of pelagic prey subsidies by demersal predators in rocky reefs: insight from movement patterns of lingcod. Marine Biology.

Winder, M., D. E. Schindler, T. E. Essington, and A. H. Litt. 2009. Disrupted seasonal clockwork in the population dynamics of a freshwater copepod by climate warming. Limnology and Oceanography 54:2493-2505.

Watson, J. T., T. E. Essington, C. E. Lennert-Cody, and M. A. Hall. 2009. Trade-Offs in the Design of Fishery Closures: Management of Silky Shark Bycatch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery. Conservation Biology 23:626-635.

Courtenay, W. R., B. B. Collette, T. E. Essington, R. Hilborn, J. W. Orr, D. Pauly, J. E. Randall, and W. F. Smith-Vaniz. 2009. Risks of Introductions of Marine Fishes: Reply to Briggs. Fisheries 34:181-186.

Beaudreau, A. H., and T. E. Essington. 2009. Development of a new field-based approach for estimating consumption rates of fishes and comparison with a bioenergetics model for lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:565-578.

Watters, G. M., R. J. Olson, J. C. Field, and T. E. Essington. 2008. Range expansion of the Humboldt squid was not caused by tuna fishing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:E5-E5.

Reum, J. P., and T. E. Essington. 2008. Seasonal variation in guild structure of the Puget Sound demersal fish community. Estuaries and Coasts 31:790-801.

Hunsicker, M. E., and T. E. Essington. 2008. Evaluating the potential for trophodynamic control of fish by the longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:2524-2535.

de Mutsert, K., J. H. Cowan, T. E. Essington, and R. Hilborn. 2008. Reanalyses of Gulf of Mexico fisheries data: Landings can be misleading in assessments of fisheries and fisheries ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:2740-2744.

Hansson, S., O. Hjerne, C. Harvey, J. F. Kitchell, S. P. Cox, and T. E. Essington. 2007. Managing Baltic Sea fisheries under contrasting production and predation regimes: Ecosystem model analyses. Ambio 36:265-271.

Essington, T. E. 2007. Evaluating the sensitivity of a trophic mass-balance model (Ecopath) to imprecise data inputs. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:628-637.

Beaudreau, A. H., and T. E. Essington. 2007. Spatial, Temporal, and Ontogenetic Patterns of Predation on Rockfishes by Lingcod. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136:1438-1452.

Wiedenmann, J., and T. E. Essington. 2006. Density-dependent overwinter survival in young-of-year bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)? A new approach for assessing stage-structured survival. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:1934-1943.

Kitchell, J. F., S. J. D. Martell, C. J. Walters, O. P. Jensen, I. C. Kaplan, J. Watters, T. E. Essington, and C. H. Boggs. 2006. Billfishes in an ecosystem context. Bulletin of Marine Science 79:669-682.

Hunsicker, M. E., and T. E. Essington. 2006. Size-structured patterns of piscivory of the longfin inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) in the mid-Atlantic continental shelf ecosystem. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63:754-765.

Essington, T. E., A. H. Beaudreau, and J. Wiedenmann. 2006. Fishing through marine food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:3171-3175.

Essington, T. E. 2006. Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commercial whaling and fishing. Pages 38-49 in J. A. Estes, D. P. DeMaster, D. F. Doak, T. M. Williams, and R. L. Brownwell, editors. Whales, whaling and ocean ecosystems. University of California Press, Berkely, CA.

Zanden, M. J. V., T. E. Essington, and Y. Vadeboncoeur. 2005. Is pelagic top-down control in lakes augmented by benthic energy pathways? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:1422-1431.

Martell, S. J. D., T. E. Essington, B. Lessard, J. F. Kitchell, C. J. Walters, and C. H. Boggs. 2005. Interactions of productivity, predation risk, and fishing effort in the efficacy of marine protected areas for the central Pacific. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:1320-1336.

Lessard, R. B., S. J. D. Martell, C. J. Walters, T. E. Essington, and J. F. Kitchell. 2005. Should ecosystem management involve active control of species abundances? Ecology and Society 10:1. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol10/iss12/art11/.

Kitchell, J. F., I. C. Kaplan, S. P. Cox, S. J. D. Martell, T. E. Essington, C. H. Boggs, and C. J. Walters. 2004. Ecological and economic components of alternative fishing methods to reduce by-catch of marlin in a tropical pelagic ecosystem. Bulletin of Marine Science 74:607-619.

Essington, T. E., and S. Hansson. 2004. Predator-dependent functional responses and interaction strengths in a natural food web. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61:2215-2226.

Essington, T. E. 2004. Getting the right answer from the wrong model: Evaluating the sensitivity of multispecies fisheries advice to uncertain species interactions. Bulletin of Marine Science 74:563-581.

Watters, G. M., R. J. Olson, R. C. Francis, P. C. Fiedler, J. J. Polovina, S. B. Reilly, K. Y. Aydin, C. H. Boggs, T. E. Essington, C. J. Walters, and J. F. Kitchell. 2003. Physical forcing and the dynamics of the pelagic ecosystem in the eastern tropical Pacific: simulations with ENSO-scale and global-warming climate drivers. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:1161-1175.

Harvey, C. J., S. P. Cox, T. E. Essington, S. Hansson, and J. F. Kitchell. 2003. An ecosystem model of food web and fisheries interactions in the Baltic Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science 60:939-950.

Essington, T. E., and J. N. Houser. 2003. The effect of whole-lake nutrient enrichment on mercury concentration in age-1 yellow perch. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132:57-68.

Essington, T. E. 2003. Development and sensitivity analysis of bioenergetics models for skipjack tuna and albacore: A comparison of alternative life histories. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 132:759-770.

Schindler, D. E., T. E. Essington, J. F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and R. Hilborn. 2002. Sharks and tunas: Fisheries impacts on predators with contrasting life histories. Ecological Applications 12:735-748.

Kitchell, J. F., T. E. Essington, C. H. Boggs, D. E. Schindler, and C. J. Walters. 2002. The role of sharks and longline fisheries in a pelagic ecosystem of the Central Pacific. Ecosystems 5:202-216.

Harvey, C. J., P. C. Hanson, T. E. Essington, P. B. Brown, and J. F. Kitchell. 2002. Using bioenergetics models to predict stable isotope ratios in fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:115-124.

Essington, T. E., D. E. Schindler, R. J. Olson, J. F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and R. Hilborn. 2002. Alternative fisheries and the predation rate of yellowfin tuna in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Ecological Applications 12:724-734.

Cox, S. P., S. J. D. Martell, C. Walters, T. E. Essington, J. F. Kitchell, C. Boggs, and I. Kaplan. 2002. Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the central Pacific Ocean, 1952-1998 I. Estimating population biomass and recruitment of tunas and billfishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:1724-1735.

Cox, S. P., T. E. Essington, J. F. Kitchell, S. J. D. Martell, C. J. Walters, C. Boggs, and I. Kaplan. 2002. Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the central Pacific Ocean, 1952-1998. II. A preliminary assessment of the trophic impacts of fishing and effects on tuna dynamics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 59:1736-1747.

Essington, T. E., J. F. Kitchell, and C. J. Walters. 2001. The von Bertalanffy growth function, bioenergetics, and the consumption rates of fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 58:2129-2138.

Carpenter, S. R., J. J. Cole, J. R. Hodgson, J. F. Kitchell, M. L. Pace, D. Bade, K. L. Cottingham, T. E. Essington, J. N. Houser, and D. E. Schindler. 2001. Trophic cascades, nutrients, and lake productivity: whole-lake experiments. Ecological Monographs 71:163-186.

Essington, T. E., T. P. Quinn, and V. E. Ewert. 2000. Intra- and inter-specific competition and the reproductive success of sympatric Pacific salmon. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57:205-213.

Essington, T. E., J. R. Hodgson, and J. F. Kitchell. 2000. Role of satiation in the functional response of a piscivore, largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 57:548-556.

Essington, T. E., and S. R. Carpenter. 2000. Nutrient cycling in lakes and streams: Insights from a comparative analysis. Ecosystems 3:131-143.

Beard, T. D., and T. E. Essington. 2000. Effects of angling and life history processes on bluegill size structure: Insights from an individual-based model. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 129:561-568.

Essington, T. E., and J. F. Kitchell. 1999. New perspectives in the analysis of fish distributions: a case study on the spatial distribution of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56:52-60.

Essington, T. E., P. W. Sorensen, and D. G. Paron. 1998. High rate of redd superimposition by brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and brown trout (Salmo trutta) in a Minnesota stream cannot be explained by habitat availability alone. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 55:2310-2316.

Carpenter, S. R., J. T. Cole, T. E. Essington, J. R. Hodgson, J. N. Houser, J. F. Kitchell, and M. L. Pace. 1998. Evaluating alternative explanations in ecosystem experiments. Ecosystems 1:335-344.

Essington, T. E., and P. W. Sorensen. 1996. Overlapping sensitivities of brook trout and brown trout to putative hormonal pheromones. Journal of Fish Biology 48:1027-1029.