Alice Rogers
I am an expert in marine ecology and ecosystem modelling (MEEM). My research focusses on the effects of climate change and other human impacts on fish ecology, food web dynamics, and fish production, with emphasis on coastal ecosystems. Climate change has the potential to drastically and also subtly change the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems and the services that they provide. The MEEM team aims to understand and predict the consequences of change from organismal to ecosystem scales, using a combination of fieldwork, laboratory experiments and size-based ecosystem modelling. My work to quantify the effects of habitat degradation on coral reef fisheries supported shifts and improvements in marine management in the Caribbean and South-East Asia, providing policy briefs and models which contributed to the development of numerous marine management plans. Since moving to New Zealand, I have been exploring temperate coastal habitats including kelp forests, animal dominated reefs and deeper water, mesophotic ecosystems. Understanding and quantifying the importance of these habitats for fish from small gobies to large sharks is at the heart of my current research.
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