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William Cheung
Ph.D., Ecology
Program Director (Science)
Professor and Director of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (University of British Columbia)
William Cheung is Director (Science) of the NF-UBC Nereus Program and the Principal Investigator of the UBC Nereus Research group since 2014. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. His main research area is on assessing impacts of fishing and climate change on marine ecosystems and their goods and services, and studying ways to reconcile trade-offs in their management.
Publications
Marques A., Pereira H.M., Krug C., Leadley P.W., Visconti P., Januchowski-Hartley S.R., Krug R.M., Alkemade R., Bellard C., Cheung W.W.L., et al., 2014, A framework to identify enabling and urgent actions for the 2020 Aichi Targets., Biodiversity, Governance, Basic and Applied Ecology, 15, 633-638, DOI 10.1016/j.baae.2014.09.004, link
Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Singh, G.G., Cheung, W.W.L., 2017, A fuzzy logic expert system for evaluating policy progress towards sustainability goals., Fisheries Management, Ambio, doi: 10.1007/s13280-017-0998-3, link
Tittensor D.P., Walpole M., Hill S.M.L.L., Boyce D.G., Britten G.L., Burgess N.D., Butchart S.H.M., Leadley P.W., Regan E.C., Alkemade R., Baumung R., Bellard C., Bouwman L., Bowles-Newark N.J., Chenery M.A., Cheung W.W.L., Christensen V., Cooper H.D., Crowther A.R., Dixon M.J.R., Galli A., Gaveau V., Gregory R.D., Gutierrez N.L., Hirsch T.L., Höft R., Januchowski-Hartley S.R., Karmann M., Krug C.B., Leverington F.J., Loh J., Lojenga R.K., Malsch K., Marques A., Morgan D.H.W., Mumby P.J., Newbold T., Noonan-Mooney K., Pagad S.N., Parks B.C., Pereira H.M., Robertson T., Rondinini C., Santini L., Scharlemann Schindler S., Sumaila R., Teh L.S.L., van Kolck J., Visconti P., Ye Y., 2014, A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets., Biodiversity, Science, 346, 241-244, DOI 10.1126/science.1257484, link
Tittensor, D.P., Eddy, T.D., Lotze, H.K., Galbraith, E.D., Cheung, W.W.L., Barange, M., Blanchard, J., Bopp, L., Bryndum-Buchholz, A., Büchner, M., Bulman, C., Carozza, D.A., Christensen, V., Coll, M., Dunne, J.P, Fernandes, J.A., Fulton, E.A., Hobday, A., Huber, V., Jennings, S., Jones, M., Lehodey, P., Link, J.S., Mackinson, S., Maury, O., Niiranen, S., Oliveros-Ramos, R., Roy, T., Schewe, J., Shin, Y.J., Silva, T., Stock, C.A., Steenbeek, J., Underwood, P.J., Volkholz, J., Watson, J., Walker, N. 2018. A protocol for the intercomparison of marine fishery and ecosystem models: Fish-MIP v1.0. Geoscientific Model Development 11: 1421-1442 link
Singh, G. G., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Swartz, W., Cheung, W., Guy, J. A., Kenny, T. A., McOwen, C. J., Asch. R., Geffert, J. L., Wabnitz, C. C. C., Sumaila, U. R., Hanich, Q., Ota, Y., 2017, A rapid assessment of co-benefits and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals, Marine Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.05.030, link
Miller, D. D., Ota, Y., Sumaila, U. R., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Cheung, W. W. L., 2017, Adaptation strategies to climate change in marine systems, Global Change Biology, 10.1111/gcb.13829, link
Whitney, C. K., Bennett, N. J., Ban, N. C., Allison, E. H., Armitage, D., Blythe, J. L., Burt, J. M., Cheung, W., Finkbeiner, E. M., Kaplan-Hallam, M., Perry, I., Turner, N. J., Yumagulova, L., 2017, Adaptive capacity: from assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems, Ecology and Society, 22(2), 22, link
Cheung W.W.L., Sarmiento J.L., Pauly D., 2013, Approaches to modeling and projecting climate change effects on marine ecosystems and fisheries., Marine Ecosystem, Oceanography, Climate Change, ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, 70, 1069-1074
Jones M., C., S., R., Dye J., K., Pinnegar R., Warren T., Froclicher J., Fernandes J., Cheung W.W.L., 2013, Assessing the impacts of climate change on threatened species in the North Sea., Marine Ecosystem, Oceanography, Climate Change, PLoS One, 8
Sumaila, U.R., Tai, T.C., Lam, V.W., Cheung, W.W., Bailey, M., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Chen, O.L. and Gulati, S.S. (2019). Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people. Science advances, 5(2), p.eaau3855 link
Sumaila R., Cheung W., 2015, Boom or bust: The future of fish in the South China Sea (Report), Fisheries, Economics, Fisheries Management, Biodiversity, Food Security, OceanAsia project, link
Cheung W., Frölicher T., Asch R., Jones M., Pinsky M., Reygondeau G., Rodgers K., Rykaczewski R., Sarmiento J., Stock C., Watson J., 2015, Building confidence in projections of the responses of living marine resources to climate change, Climate Change, Marine Management, ICES Journal of Marine Science, link
Bailey M., Favaro B., Otto S., Charles A., Devillers R., Metaxas A., Tyedmers P., Ban N., Mason T., Hoover C., Duck T., Fanning L., Milley C., Cisneros-Montemayor A., Pauly D., Cheung W., Cullis-Suzuki S., Teh L., U. Sumaila R., 2016, Canada at a crossroad: The imperative for realigning ocean policy with ocean science, Fisheries Management, Governance, Policy, Marine Policy, Volume 63, Pages 53–60, link
Sumaila U.R., Cheung W.W.L., 2014, Climate change effects on the economics and management of marine fishes., Fisheries, Economics, Climate Change, Handbook on the Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity.
Alava, J.J., Cheung, W.W.L., Ross, P.S., Sumaila, U.R., 2017, Climate change-contaminant interactions in marine food webs: Towards a conceptual framework, Climate Change, Pollution, Bioaccumulation, Global Change Biology, 10.1111/gcb.13667, link
Du J., Cheung W. W. L., Zheng X., Chen B., Liao J., Hu W., 2015, Comparing trophic structure of a subtropical bay as estimated from mass-balance food web model and stable isotope analysis, Marine Ecosystem, Ecological Modelling, Volume 312, 175–181, link
Gattuso J.-P., Magnan A., Billé R., Cheung W. W. L., Howes E. L., Joos F., Allemand D., Bopp L., Cooley S. R., Eakin C. M., Hoegh-Guldberg O., Kelly R. P., Pörtner H.-O., Rogers A. D., Baxter J. M., Laffoley D., Osborn D., Rankovic A., Rochette J., Sumaila U. R., Treyer S., Turley C., 2015, Contrasting futures for ocean and society from different anthropogenic CO2 emissions scenarios, Marine Ecosystem, Climate Change, Science, Vol. 349 no. 6243, link
Cheung W. W. L., Sumaila U. R., 2015, Economic incentives and overfishing: A bioeconomic vulnerability index, Economics, Fisheries Management, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Vol. 530, 223–232, link
Cheung W.W.L., Sumaila R., 2014, “Economic incentives and overfishing: a bioeconomic vulnerability index”., Fisheries, Economics, Marine Ecology Progress Series, DOI 10.3354/meps11135
Daw T., Hicks C., Brown K., Chaigneau T., Januchowski-Hartley F., Cheung W., Rosendo S., Crona B., Coulthard S., Sandbrook C., Perry C., Bandeira S., Muthiga N., Schulte-Herbrüggen B., Bosire J., McClanahan T.., 2016, Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems and human well-being, Marine Ecosystem, Ecology and Society, Volume 21, No. 2, link
Merino G., Barange M., Fernandes J.A., Mullon C., Cheung W., Trenkel V., Lam V., 2014, Estimating the economic loss of recent North Atlantic fisheries management., Fisheries, Economics, Progress in Oceanography, DOI 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.04.022
Dawa T. M., Coulthard S., Cheung W. W. L., Brown K., Abunge C., Galafassi D., Peterson G. D., McClanahan T. R., Omukoto J. O., Munyi L., 2015, Evaluating taboo trade-offs in ecosystems services and human well-being, Fisheries, Governance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), vol. 112 no. 22, 6949–6954, link
Pauly D., Cheung W.W.L., 2013, Fish have temperature, Marine Ecosystem, Climate Change, More Fish and More: Proceedings of the 11th FishBase Symposium., 11 – 16
Asch, R. G., Cheung, W. W. L., Reygondeau, G., 2017. Future marine ecosystem drivers, biodiversity, and fisheries maximum catch potential in Pacific Island countries and territories under climate change, Fisheries, Biodiversity, Marine Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2017.08.015, link
Maureaud, A. Gascual, D., Colléter, M., Palomares, M. L. D., Pontavice, H. D., Pauly, D., Cheung, W. W. L., 2017, Global change in the trophic functioning of marine food webs, PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182826, link
Oyinlola, M.A., Reygondeau, G., Wabnitz, C.C.C., Troell, M., Cheung, W.W.L., 2018. Global estimation of areas with suitable environmental conditions for mariculture species. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0191086. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191086, link
Cheung, W. W. L., Pauly, D., 2016, Global-scale Responses and Vulnerability of Marine Species and Fisheries to Climate Change, Fisheries, Climate Change, Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries , link
Eddy TD, Cheung WWL, Bruno JF. 2018. Historical baselines of coral cover on tropical reefs as estimated by expert opinion. PeerJ. 6:e4308; DOI 10.7717/peerj.4308 link
Eddy, T.D., Cheung, W.W.L., Bruno, J.F. 2018. Historical baselines of coral cover on tropical reefs as estimated by expert opinion. PeerJ. 6:e4308; DOI 10.7717/peerj.4308 link
Cheung, W., Pauly, D., 2016, Impacts and effects of ocean warming on marine fishes, Marine Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Marine Habitat, Climate Change, Explaining Ocean Warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences, pages 239-253, link
Bell, J., Cheung, W., De Silva, S., Gasalla, M., Frusher, S., Hobday, A., Lam, V., Lehodey, P., Peci, G., Senina, I., 2016, Impacts and effects of ocean warming on the contributions of fisheries and aquaculture to food security, Fisheries, Aquaculture, Food Security, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences, Pages 409-437, link
Du J., Cheung W. W. L., Ye G., Zhou Q., Chen B., 2015, Impacts of fishing on the marine mean trophic level in Chinese marine area, Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries, Acta Ecologica Sinica, Volume 35, Issue 4, 83–88, link
Fernandes J., Cheung W.W.L., Jennings S., Frölicher T., Barange M., Grant A., 2013, Integrating trophic interactions into projecting distribution changes in marine fishes and invertebrates., Marine Ecosystem, Global Change Biology, 19, 2596-2607
Leadley P., Proença V., Fernández-Manjarrés J., Pereira H.M., Alkemade R., Biggs R., Bruley E., Cheung W., Cooper D., Figueiredo J., 2014, Interacting Regional-Scale Regime Shifts for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services., Biodiversity, BioScience, 64, 665-679, DOI 0.1093/biosci/biu093, link
McOwen C.J., Cheung W.W.L., Rykaczewski R.R., Watson R.A., Wood J.L., 2014, Is fisheries production within Large Marine Ecosystems determined by bottom-up or top-down forcing?, Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries, Fish and Fisheries, DOI 10.1111/faf.12082
Cheung, W. W. L., Reygondeau, G., Frölicher, T. L., 2016, Large benefits to marine fisheries of meeting the 1.5°C global warming target, Fisheries, Climate Change, Science, 354: 6319, 1591-1594, link
Blanchard, J., Watson, R. A., Fulton, E. A., Cottrell, R. S., Nash, K. L., Bryndum-Buchholz, A., Büchner, M., Carozza, D. A., Cheung, W. W. L., Elliott, J., Davidson, L. N. K., Dulvy, N. K., Dunne, J. P., Eddy, T. D., Galbraith, E., Lotze, H. K., Maury, O., Müller, C., Tittensor, D. P., Jennings, S., 2017, Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture, Nature Ecology and Evolution, 1, 1240-1249, link
Cheung W.W.L., Sumaila U.R., 2013, Managing multiple human stressors in the ocean: A case study in the Pacific Ocean., Fisheries, Economics, Climate Change, Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives.
Lam V.W.Y., Cheung W.W.L., Sumaila U.R., 2014, Marine capture fisheries in the Arctic: winners or losers under climate change and ocean acidification?, Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries, Climate Change, Fish and Fisheries, DOI 10.1111/faf.12106
Peterson G., Kabubo-Mariara J., Crossman N., Rashleigh B., Munoz P., Anticamara J., Mdemu M. V., Ainars A., Cheung W., Vogl A.,, 2016, Modelling consequences of change in biodiversity and ecosystems for nature’s benefits to people, Marine Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Methodological assessment of scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem services, pages 199-243, link
Jones M., Cheung W.W.L., 2014, Multi-model ensemble projections of climate change effects on global marine biodiversity., Marine Ecosystem, Climate Change, ICES Journal of Marine Sciences, DOI 10.1093/icesjms/fsu172
Weatherdon L., Magnan A., Rogers A., Sumaila R., Cheung W., 2016, Observed and Projected Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Fisheries, Aquaculture, Coastal Tourism, and Human Health: An Update, Economics, Fisheries Management, Climate Change, Frontiers in Marine Science, Volume 3, link
Cheung et al. (2018) Opportunities for climate-risk reduction through effective fisheries management: https://
Bennett J. R., Shaw J. D., Terauds A., Smol J. P., Aerts R., Bergstrom D. M., Blais J. M., Cheung W. W. L., Chown S. L., Lea M-A., Nielsen U. N., Pauly D., Reimer K. J., Riddle M. J., Snape I., Stark J. S., Tulloch V. J., Possingham H. P., 2015, Polar lessons learned: long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments, Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries Management, Climate Change, Polar Regions, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Volume 13, Issue 6, 316–324, link
Booth, S., Cheung, W. W. L., Coombs-Wallace, A. P., Lam, V. W. Y., Zeller, D., Christensen, V., Pauly, D., 2016, Pollutants in the Seas Around Us, Fisheries, Pollution, Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries , link
Weatherdon L., Ota Y., Jones M., Close D., Cheung W., 2016, Projected Scenarios for Coastal First Nations’ Fisheries Catch Potential under Climate Change: Management Challenges and Opportunities, Fisheries, Fisheries Management, Food Security, Climate Change, Indigenous issues, PLoS ONE, link
Lam V., Cheung W., Reygondeau G., Sumaila U.R., 2016, Projected change in global fisheries revenues under climate change, Fisheries, Economics, Climate Change, Scientific Reports, link
Cheung W.W.L., Brodeur R.D., Okey T.A., Pauly D., 2014, Projecting future changes in distributions of pelagic fish species of Northeast Pacific shelf seas., Marine Ecosystem, Climate Change, Progress in Oceanography, DOI 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.09.003
Fernandes J., Kay S., Hossain M., Ahmed M., Cheung W., Lazar A., Barange M., 2015, Projecting marine fish production and catch potential in Bangladesh in the 21st century under long-term environmental change and management scenarios, Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries Management, Climate Change, ICES Journal of Marine Science, link
Mullon C., Steinmetz F., Merino G., Fernandes J., Cheung W., Butenschön M., Barange M., 2016, Quantitative pathways for Northeast Atlantic fisheries based on climate, ecological–economic and governance modelling scenarios, Economics, Fisheries Management, Climate Change, Ecological Modelling, Volume 320, Pages 273–291, link
Stock, C. A., John, J. G., Rykaczewski, R. R., Asch, R. G., Cheung, W. W. L., Dunne, J. P., Friedland, K. D., Lam, V. W. Y., Sarmiento, J. L., Watson, R. A. , 2017, Reconciling fisheries catch and ocean productivity, Fisheries Management, Biodiversity, Policy, PNAS, doi:10.1073, link
Queirós A.M., Fernandes J.A., Faulwetter S., Nunes J., Rastrick S.P.S., Mieszkowska N., Artioli Y., Yool A., Calosi P., Arvanitidis C., Findlay H.S., Barange M., Cheung W.W.L., Widdicombe S., 2014, Scaling up experimental ocean acidification and warming research: from individuals to the ecosystem., Marine Ecosystem, Oceanography, Global Change Biology, DOI 10.1111/gcb.12675
Teh, L.S.L., Cheung, W.W.L, Sumaila, U., 2016, Scenarios for investigating the future of Canada’s oceans and marine fisheries under environmental and socioeconomic change, Fisheries Management, Regional Environmental Change, doi:10.1007/s10113-016-1081-5, (In press), link
Cheung W.W.L., Sarmiento J.L., Dunne J., Frölicher T.L., Lam V., Palomares D.M.L., Watson R., Pauly D., 2013, Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on marine ecosystems., Marine Ecosystem, Fisheries, Climate Change, Nature Climate Change, 3, 254-258, DOI 10.1038/nclimate1691, link
Cheung W.W.L., Watson R., Pauly D., 2013, Signature of Ocean Warming in Global Fisheries Catch., Marine Ecosystem, Oceanography, Fisheries, Climate Change, Nature, 497, 365-368, DOI 10.1038/nature12156, link
Pinnegar, J., Engelhard, G., Jones, M., Cheung, W., Peck, M., Rjinsdorp, A., Brander, K., 2016, Socio-economic Impacts — Fisheries, Fisheries, Economics, Fisheries Management, Climate Change, North Sea Region Climate Change Assessment, Pages 375-395, link
Ahmed, N., Cheung, W., Thompson, S. Glaser, M., 2017, Solutions to blue carbon emissions: Shrimp cultivation, mangrove deforestation and climate change in coastal Bangladesh, Marine Ecosystem, Aquaculture, Food Security, Marine Policy, 82, 68-75, link
Pauly, D., Cheung, W. W. L., 2017, Sound physiological knowledge and principles in modeling shrinking of fishes under climate change, Global Change Biology, 00, 1–12, link
Frölicher, T.L., Rodgers, K., Stock, C., Cheung, W., 2016, Sources of uncertainties in 21st century projections of potential ocean ecosystem stressors, Oceanography, Climate Change, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Volume 30, link
Cosme, N., Jones, M. C., Cheung, W. W. L., Larsen, H. F., 2016, Spatial differentiation of marine eutrophication damage indicators based on species density, Marine Ecosystem, Impact assessment, Ecological Indicators, ISSN 1470-160X, In review, link
Cheung W., Jones M., Reygondeau G., Stock C., Lam V., Frölicher T., 2016, Structural uncertainty in projecting global fisheries catches under climate change, Fisheries, Climate Change, Ecological Modelling, Volume 325, Pages 57–66, link
Palomares, M. L. D., Cheung, W. W. L., Lam, V. W. Y., Pauly, D., 2016, The Distribution of Exploited Marine Biodiversity, Fisheries, Biodiversity, Transboundary Resources, Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries. , link
Koubbi, P., Reygondeau, G., De Broyer, C., Constable, A., Cheung, W., 2015, The Southern Ocean, Marine Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Ocean and Climate, 2015 – Scientific Notes, Pages 41-50, link
Christensen V., Coll M., Buszowski J., Cheung W., Frölicher T.L., Steenbeek J., Stock C., Watson R., Walters C.J., 2014, The global ocean is an ecosystem: Simulating marine life and fisheries., Marine Ecosystem, Global Ecology and Biogeography
Cisneros-Montemayor A., Cheung W., Bodtker K., Teh L., Steiner N., Bailey M., Hoover C., Sumaila R., 2016, Towards an integrated database on Canadian ocean resources: benefits, current states, and research gaps, Oceanography, Fisheries, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, link
Cheung, W.W.L., Jones, M.C., Lam, V.W.Y., Miller, D.D., Ota, Y., Teh, L.S.L, Sumaila, U.R., 2016, Transform high seas management to build climate resilience in marine seafood supply, Food Security, Marine Management, Fish and Fisheries, link
Payne M., Barange M., Cheung W., MacKenzie B., Batchelder H., Cormon X., Eddy T., Fernandes J., Hollowed A., Jones M., Link J., Neubauer P., Ortiz I., Queirós A., Paula J., 2015, Uncertainties in projecting climate-change impacts in marine ecosystems, Marine Ecosystem, Climate Change, ICES Journal of Marine Science, link
Jones M.C., Dye S.R., Pinnegar J.K., Warren R., Cheung W.W.L., 2014, Using scenarios to project the changing profitability of fisheries under climate change., Economics, Climate Change, Fish and Fisheries, DOI 10.1111/faf.12081
Sumaila U.R., Lam V., Miller D., Teh L., Watson R., Cheung W., Cote I., Rogers A., Roberts C., Sala E., Pauly D., 2014, Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing., Economics, Fisheries Management, Transboundary Resources, Nature Scientific Report
Crespo, G.O., Dunn, D.C., Reygondeau, G., Boerder, K., Worm, B., Cheung, W., Tittensor, D.P., and Halpin, P.N. (2018). The environmental niche of the global high seas pelagic longline fleet. Science Advances, 4(8), Eaat3681. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aat3681 link
William WL Cheung, Vicky WY Lam and Colette CC Wabnitz (2019). Future scenarios and projections for fisheries on the high seas under a changing climate. Changing Oceans Research Unit / International Institute for Environment and Development – Working Paper 2019, 43pp. link
Singh, GG, Hilmi, N, Bernhardt, J, et al. Climate impacts on the ocean are making the Sustainable Development Goals a moving target travelling away from us. People Nat. 2019; 00: 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.26 link
Marushka, L., Kenny, T.A., Batal, M., Cheung, W.W., Fediuk, K., Golden, C.D., Salomon, A.K., Sadik, T., Weatherdon, L.V. and Chan, H.M., 2019. Potential impacts of climate-related decline of seafood harvest on nutritional status of coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada. PloS one, 14(2), p.e0211473 link
Lotze, H., Tittensor, D., Bryndum-Buchholz, A., Eddy, T., Cheung, W., Galbraith, E., Barange, M., Barrier, N., Bianchi, D., Blanchard, J.L., Bopp, L., Büchner, M., Bulman, C.M., Carozza, D.A., Christensen, V., Coll, M., Dunne, J.P., Fulton, E.A., Jennings, S., Jones, M.C., Mackinson, S., Maury, O., Niiranen, S., Oliveros-Ramos, R., Roy, T., Fernandez, J.A., Schewe, J., Shin, Y., Silva, T.A.M., Steenbeek, J., Stock, C.A., Verley, P., Volkholz, J., Walker, N.D. and Worm, B. (2019). Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(26), 12907-12912. DOI: /10.1073/pnas.1900194116 link
Talloni-Álvarez, N.E., Sumaila, R., Le Billon, P. & Cheung, W.L. (2019). Climate change impact on Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystem: The current state of knowledge. Marine Policy, 104, 163-176.
Petatán-Ramírez, D., Ojeda-Ruiz, Miguel.Á., Sánchez-Velasco, L., Rivas, D.,Reyes-Bonilla, Hé., Cruz-Piñón, G., Morzaria-Luna, H.N., Cisneros-Montemayor, André.M., Cheung,W., Salvadeo, C., Potential changes in the distribution of suitable habitat for Pacific sardine (Sardinopssagax) under climate change scenarios, Deep-Sea Research Part II (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2019.07.020. link
Tai, T.C., Steiner, N.S., Hoover, C., Cheung, W.W.L. & Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Evaluating present and future potential of arctic fisheries in Canada. Marine Policy, 108, 103637. link
Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Moreno-Báez, M., Voyer, M., Allison, E.H., Cheung, W.W.L., Hessing-Lewis, M., Oyinlola, M.A., Singh, G.G., Swartz, W. and Ota, Y. (2019). Social equity and benefits as the nexus of a transformative Blue Economy: A sectoral review of implications. Marine Policy, 109: 103702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.103702
Caludet et al., A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action, One Earth (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2019.10.012 link
du Pontavice, H., Gascuel, D., Reygondeau, G., Maureaud, A., and Cheung, W.W.L. (2019). Climate change undermines the global functioning of marine food webs. Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.14944 link.
Cheung, William W. L., Oyinlola, Muhammed A. (2019). Dynamic Integrated Marine Climate, Biodiversity, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Market Model (DIVERSE). Fisheries Centre Research Reports 27(3): 125pp.
L. Thiault, C.Mora, J. E. Cinner,W. W. L. Cheung, N. A. J. Graham, F. A. Januchowski-Hartley, D. Mouillot, U. R. Sumaila, J. Claudet, Escaping the perfect storm of simultaneous climate change impacts on agriculture and marine fisheries. Sci. Adv. 5, eaaw9976 (2019). link
Wilson, T.J.B., Cooley, S.R., Tai, T.C., Cheung, W.W.L., & Tyedmers, P.H. (2020). Potential socioeconomic impacts from ocean acidification and climate change effects on Atlantic Canadian fisheries. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0226544. link
Oyinlola, M.A., Reygondeau, G., Wabnitz, C.C.C., & Cheung, W.W.L. (2020). Projecting global mariculture diversity under climate change. Global Change Biology, 00:1-15. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14974 link.
Guiet, J., Galbraith, E.D., Bianchi, D., & Cheung W.W.L. (2020). Bioenergetic influence on the historical development and decline of industrial fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science, doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsaa044.
William Cheung, Director of the Nereus Program (Science), and Gabriel Reygondeau, Nereus Fellow (UBC), are co-authors of a chapter on The Southern Ocean, published in the Ocean and Climate Platform’s Scientific Notes.
“Boom or Bust: The Future of Fish in the South China Sea” has been published by William Cheung, Director of the Nereus Program (Science), and Rashid Sumaila, Research Director of the OceanCanada Partnership (UBC), for the OceanAsia project.
Nereus Director of Science William Cheung has won the Prix d’Excellence Award by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The ??????????Prix d’Excellence is awarded every three years for a high level of achievement in marine sciences work through research, scientific leadership and scientific policy leadership.
Nereus Director of Science William-Cheung gave a plenary keynote presentation at the 4th International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World, held in Hobart, Australia, on Friday, May 6.
Nereus Director of Science William Cheung gave a keynote entitled “Applying macroecology to project future marine ecosystems under climate change” at the British Ecological Society’s Aquatic Macroecology Meeting in London on September 30, 2016.
Nereus Director of Science William Cheung participated in a lecture at the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) in Merida, Mexico, from July 25 to 26.
Water spills from the edge of a giant, melting iceberg on the cover of the November 2015 issue of Science. The special issue focused on the effects of climate change on our ocean systems, and highlighted research by Dr. William Cheung, an Associate Professor with the Changing Ocean Research Unit at the University of British Columbia, and Director (Science) of the Nereus Program.
More than 10% of the global population could face nutrition deficiencies in the coming decades due to fish catch declines, says a new Nature commentary published today co-authored by Nereus Director of Science William Cheung.
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) released their Methodological Assessment of Scenarios & Models of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services, for which Nereus Director of Science William Cheung was a coordinating lead author, as well as a contributing author for Chapter 5.
Nereus Director of Science William Cheung attended the Scoping Meeting for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways as an invited expert.
Nereus Director (Science) William Cheung was invited as a “resource person” at the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Methodological Assessment of Scenarios and Modelling of Biodiversity and Ecosystem services, in De Bilt, The Netherlands, from January 25 to 27.
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) ‘Final Research Coordination Meeting on Ocean Acidification and the Economic Impact on Fisheries and Coastal Society’ took place from July 18 to 22 in Monaco. The meeting, organized by Nereus Alumni Marc Metian, included Nereus Director of Science William Cheung as an invited expert.
Nereus Director of Science William Cheung was a plenary speaker at the ‘International Conference on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Support of Decision-Making.’
Press Release: Nereus Program members Rashid Sumaila, Vicky Lam, William Cheung, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, Oai Li Chen, and co-authors published a study in Science Advances today, ‘Climate Target Could Net Additional Billions in Fisheries Revenue’. You can read the press release from UBC and access the article here.
Fisheries Economics Research Unit (UBC) Research Associate Louise Teh, Nereus Director of Science William Cheung, and OceanCanada Director and Nereus Research Associate (Honourary) Rashid Sumaila recently had a paper (“Scenarios for investigating the future of Canada’s oceans and marine fisheries under environmental and socioeconomic change”) published in Regional Environmental Change…
Spatial differentiation of marine eutrophication damage indicators based on species density” was recently published in Ecological Indicators, co-authored by Nereus Alumnus Miranda Jones (UNEP-WCMC) and Nereus Director of Science William Cheung.
Nereus’s Vicky Lam, William Cheung, Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor and Oai Li Chen from University of British Columbia (UBC) are all co-authors on an article with Rashid Sumaila recently published in Science Advances, entitled ‘Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people’. The authors investigated how implementing the Paris Agreement could protect top-revenue generating catch globally, impacting fishers’ revenues, seafood workers’ income and household seafood expenditure.
“Towards an integrated database on Canadian ocean resources: benefits, current states, and research gaps” was recently published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, authored by Nereus Fellow Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor (UBC), Director of Science William Cheung, and OceanCanada Director Rashid Sumaila (Nereus Honorary Research Associate).
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Nereus alumnus Rebecca Asch (East Carolina University) writes a blog about her upcoming publication in the journal Global Change Biology, which focuses on how climate change is influencing seasonality, thereby creating critical mismatches in the timing between fish spawning and phytoplankton blooms in marine food webs.
Nereus Program Director (Science) William Cheung (University of British Columbia – UBC) and Research Associates Vicky Lam (UBC) and Colette Wabnitz (UBC) recently published the working paper ‘Future scenarios and projections for fisheries on the high seas under a changing climate’. You can read the abstract and access it here.
Nereus director (science) William Cheung (UBC) and research associate Rashid Sumaila (UBC) are co-authors on an article recently published in the journal Marine Policy – ‘Climate change impact on Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystem: The current state of knowledge’. They conducted a literature review to investigate currently known and projected impacts of climate change on Canada’s Pacific marine ecosystem.
Nereus’s Tyler Eddy, William Cheung, Miranda Jones, Derek Tittensor, and Charles Stock are co-authors on a recent article that projects a 5% decline, on average, in global marine biomass for every 1 degree (C) of warming. They did this by combining several different types of models, rather than using a single-model approach.
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor (UBC) and director (science) William Cheung (UBC) are co-authors on a recent publication that models how changing environmental conditions and climate may influence future Pacific sardine distribution in Northwest Mexico, and what it may mean for marine ecosystems and regional fishers.
Nereus director (science) William Cheung (UBC) and Thomas Frölicher (University of Bern) are co-authors on the newly released Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) Summary for Policymakers (SPM). It was approved and presented at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on September 25, 2019.
Nereus Program director (science) William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila are co-authors on a new paper published in Marine Policy – ‘Evaluating present and future potential of arctic fisheries in Canada’.
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA) master’s student Sallie Lau (University of Washington) wrote a blog about her experience at the recent Nippon Foundation Nereus Science Conference. Both English and Chinese versions are posted here.
Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor is lead author with co-authors William Cheung, Muhammed Oyinlola, Gerald Singh, Wilf Swartz and Yoshitaka Ota on a new paper in Marine Policy – “Social equity and benefits as the nexus of a transformative Blue Economy: A sectoral review of implications”.
Nereus director (science) William Cheung (UBC) is a co-author on a new paper published in One Earth – “A Roadmap for Using the UN Decade of Ocean Science fr Sustainable Development in Support of Science, Policy, and Action”.
Today, the landmark “Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate” (SROCC) is being presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at COP25. Nereus Program director (science) William Cheung and principal investigator Thomas Froelicher are authors on the SROCC report.
Lead author Hubert du Pontavice and co-authors Didier Gascuel, Gabriel Reygondeau, Aurore Maureaud, and William Cheung recently published an article in Global Change Biology – “Climate change undermines the global functioning of marine food webs”.
Nereus Program director (science) Willam Cheung and research fellow Muhammed Oyinlola are co-authors on a new Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries (UBC) report – “Dynamic Integrated Marine Climate, Biodiversity, Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Market Model (DIVERSE)”. You can read a brief summary and access it here.
Director (science) William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila are co-authors on a recent study published in Science Advances, “Escaping the perfect storm of simultaneous climate change impacts on agriculture and marine fisheries.”
Director (science) William Cheung is a co-author with others on a new study published in PLoS ONE, “Potential socioeconomic impacts from ocean acidification and climate change effects on Atlantic Canadian Fisheries.”
Nereus Program director of science William Cheung (UBC) was recently announced as a recipient of the prestigious UBC Killam Research Fellowship for outstanding faculty research.
Muhammed Oyinlola is lead author with Gabriel Reygondeau, Colette Wabnitz, and William Cheung as co-authors on a new study in Global Change Biology, “Projecting global mariculture diversity under climate change.” In their study, they look at how climate change will affect 85 of the most commonly farmed fish and invertebrates in coastal and open ocean areas.
Director William Cheung and Principal Investigator Charles Stock are part of a team of authors that recently published a comment in Nature Climate Change, “Evolution of the Galapagos in the Anthropocene”.
Director (science) William Cheung is a co-author on a new publication in ICES Journal of Marine Science, “Bioenergetic influence on the historical development and decline of industrial fisheries.”
