This application was developed to address the Marine Biodiversity and Resources National Adaptation Research Plan. Specifically it recognises the need to provide a framework to link science to policy including the socio-ecological responses that identify climate change driven adaptation responses...

Small pelagic fishes such as Australian Sardine (Sardinops sagax), Blue Mackerel (Scomber australasicus), Jack Mackerel (Trachurus declivis) and Redbait (Emmelichthys nitidus) are known as forage or low trophic level species (Pikitch et al. 2012). They are critical components of pelagic ecosystems...