Sb. Brandt et Kj. Hartman, INNOVATIVE APPROACHES WITH BIOENERGETICS MODELS - FUTURE APPLICATIONSTO FISH ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 122(5), 1993, pp. 731-735
Bioenergetics models define the mass balance relationship between the
amount of food consumed by a fish and the fish's growth (somatic and r
eproductive), the energy it expends, and the waste it produces. The fi
eld of bioenergetics modeling has evolved rapidly from single-species
studies of growth and food consumption to studies of food web dynamics
, nutrient cycling, and predator-prey interactions at various spatial
and temporal scales and to assessments of production potential at the
ecosystem level. Much of this advance has been fostered by question-dr
iven applications of bioenergetics models and by integration of bioene
rgetics approaches with new technologies and ecological theory. The ac
companying papers in this issue exemplify such diverse and innovative
applications. In future applications of these models to fish ecology a
nd management, more attention must be focused on differences between m
odel formulations, on model parameterization, and on assumptions used
in model simulations and applications.