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Research Interests:
My major research areas of interest are coral reef community ecology,
fisheries science, marine conservation biology, and traditional
marine resource use and management. I have been examining population
regulation in marine fishes throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago,
the Caribbean, and the wider Indo-Pacific region, with particular
emphasis on responses to exploitation, disturbance, and habitat
quality. One of my current major research efforts involves the development
of biogeographic approaches to integrate information on the distribution
of habitats and associated species to characterize species affinities,
define biologically relevant marine protected area (MPA) boundaries,
and evaluate MPA effectiveness. Through the combination of remote
sensing, GIS, and comprehensive ecological studies, we are developing
large-scale, spatially-explicit, and statistically robust evaluations
of MPAs as well as exploring the relationship between coral reef
habitat complexity and coral reef fish population dynamics at multiple
broad spatial scales to inform future MPA design.
Representative
publications:
Friedlander AM, SA Sandin, EE DeMartini, E Sala. 2010. Habitat-specific
characterization of the fish assemblage at a piscivore-dominated,
pristine atoll in the central Pacific. Marine Ecology Progress Series.
In press.
Papastamatiou,
Y.P., Caselle, J.E., Lowe, C.G., Friedlander, A.M. 2009. Scale-dependent
effects of habitat on movements and path structure of reef sharks
at a predator-dominated atoll. Ecology 90:996-1008
Wedding L and Friedlander
A.M. 2008. Determining the influence of seascape structure on coral
reef fishes in Hawaii using a geospatial approach. Marine Geodesy
31:246-266
Friedlander, A.M.,
Brown, E.K., Monaco, M.E. 2007. Coupling ecology and GIS to evaluate
efficacy of marine protected areas in Hawaii. Ecological Applications
17:715-730.
Friedlander, A.M.,
E.K. Brown, and M. E. Monaco. 2007. Defining reef fish habitat utilization
patterns in Hawaii: comparisons between MPAs and areas open to fishing.
Marine Ecology Progress Series 351:221-233
Friedlander A.,
J. Sladek Nowlis, J. A. Sanchez, R. Appeldoorn, P.Usseglio, C. McCormick,
S. Bejarano, and A. Mitchell-Chui. 2003. Designing effective marine
protected areas in Seaflower Biosphere Reserve, Colombia, based
on biological and sociological information. Conservation Biology
17:1769-1784.
Friedlander A.M.,
E. K. Brown, P. L. Jokiel. W. R. Smith, and K.S. Rodgers. 2003.
Effects of habitat, wave exposure, and marine protected area status
on coral reef fish assemblages in the Hawaiian archipelago. Coral
Reefs 22:291-305.
Friedlander, A.M.
and E.E. DeMartini. 2002. Contrasts in density, size, and biomass
of reef fishes between the Northwestern and the main Hawaiian Islands:
the effects of fishing down apex predators. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser.
230:253-264.
Friedlander, A.
K. Poepoe, K. Poepoe, K. Helm, P. Bartram, J. Maragos, and I. Abbott.
2002. Application of Hawaiian traditions to community-based fishery
management. Proc. 9th Inter. Coral Reef Symp. Vol. 2:813-818.
Current
Research Projects:
Using remote sensing, GIS, and spatial ecology
to model reef fish habitat suitability in Hawaii - NOAA
A survey of the fisheries of West Maui - Hawaii Division of Aquatic
Resources
Hawaii bonefish research and conservation program - UH Sea Grant
Ecological linkages between Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument
and Virgin Islands National Park - National Park Service
Assessing lay-gillnet regulations and nursery habitat for fishes
in protected and unprotected areas on windward Oahu - Harold Castle
Foundation
BOOK
CHAPTERS:
Friedlander,
A.M. in press. Marine protected areas. In: Encyclopedia of Islands
(R. Gillespie and D.A. Clague, eds.). University of California Press.
Grigg, R. W., J. Polovina, A. Friedlander, and S. Rohman. 2008.
Pages 573-594 in: Biology and paleoceanography of the coral reefs
in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In: Coral reefs of the United
States (B. Riegl and R. Dodge, eds.). Springer-Vergal Publishing.
Friedlander, A, J. Caselle, J. Beets, C. Lowe, B. Bowen, T. Ogawa,
K. Kelly, T. Calitri, M. Lange and B. Anderson. 2007. Aspects of
the biology, ecology, and recreational fishery for bonefish at Palmyra
Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, with comparisons to other Pacific
Islands. Pages 28-56 in: Biology and management of the world's tarpon
and bonefish fisheries (J. Ault, ed.). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Poepoe, K., P. Bartram, and A. Friedlander. 2007. The use of traditional
Hawaiian knowledge in the contemporary management of marine resources.
Pages 117-141 in: Fishers' knowledge in fisheries science and management
(N. Haggan, B. Neis, and I.Baird, eds.). UNESCO, Paris.
Sladek Nowles, J. and A. M. Friedlander. 2005. Marine reserve design
and function for fisheries management. Pages 280-301 in: Marine
conservation biology: the science of maintaining the sea's biodiversity
(E. A. Norse and L. B. Crowder, eds.). Island Press.
Sladek Nowles, J. and A. M. Friedlander. 2004. Research priorities
and techniques. Pages 187-233 In: Marine Reserves; their science,
design and use (J. Sobel and C. Dahlgren, eds.). Island Press. Washington,
DC.
Sladek Nowles, J. and A. M. Friedlander. 2004. Marine reserve design
and designation process. Pages 128-163 In: Marine Reserves; their
science, design and use (J. Sobel and C. Dahlgren, eds.). Island
Press. Washington, DC.
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