| Dr. Heather Leslie Associate Research Scholar Marine population and community ecology; marine conservation science; marine reserve design and conservation planning; ecosystem-based management; and coupled social-ecological marine systems Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Princeton Environmental Institute Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1003 Tel: (609) 258-7437, Fax: 258-7715, email: hleslie (at) princeton.edu I'M MOVING! As of July 1st: Sharpe Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology Center for Environmental Studies & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Providence, RI 02912 USA I am actively seeking students to join my research group at Brown. Learn more about my research program |
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My research is motivated by the desire to contribute scientific tools that can be used to help sustain marine ecosystems, as well as the human communities that rely on them. I am a postdoctoral research fellow with Simon Levin, and am developing conceptual and quantitative models to assess the resilience and robustness of linked social-ecological systems in coastal marine areas. My primary project at
Princeton is focused on the Gulf of
California (also known as the Sea of
Cortés) region in northwest Mexico. I am developing a series of
mathematical models to explore how linkages between key elements of
marine social-ecological systems affect major coastal and marine
ecosystem services, specifically the production of wild and farmed
seafood and the provision of recreation and tourism opportunities.
Other collaborators on this
project include Exequiel
Ezcurra (San Diego Museum of Natural History), |
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Publications Leslie, H., M. Ruckelshaus, I. R. Ball, S. Andelman, and H. P. Possingham. 2003. Using siting algorithms in the design of marine reserve networks. Ecological Applications 13: S185-S198. Palumbi, S. R., S.D. Gaines, H. Leslie, and R. R. Warner. 2003. New wave: high-tech tools to help marine reserve research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1(2): 73-79. Airame, S., J. E. Dugan, K. D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, D. A. McArdle, and R. R. Warner. 2003. Applying ecological criteria to marine reserve design: A case study from the California Channel Islands. Ecological Applications 13: S170-S184. Roberts, C.M., S.J. Andelman, G.M. Branch, R. Bustamante, J.C. Castilla, J.E. Dugan, B. Halpern, K.D. Lafferty, H. Leslie, J. Lubchenco, D.A. McArdle, H.P. Possingham, M.H. Ruckelshaus, and R.R. Warner. 2003a. Ecological criteria for evaluating candidate sites for marine reserves. Ecological Applications 13: S199-S214. Menge, B. A., J. Lubchenco, M. E. S. Bracken, F. Chan, M. M. Foley, T. L. Freidenburg, S. D. Gaines, G. Hudson, C. Krenz, H. Leslie, D. N. L. Menge, R. Russell, and M. S. Webster. 2003. Coastal oceanography sets the pace of rocky intertidal community dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 100(21):12229-12234. Giller, P., H. Hillebrand, U G. Berninger, M. Gessner, S. Hawkins, P. Inchausti, C. Inglis, H. Leslie, B. Malmqvist, M. Monaghan, P. Morin, G. O’Mullan. Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning: emerging issues and their experimental test in aquatic communities. Oikos 104: 423-436. Leslie, H. 2004. Coastal Marine Conservation: Science and Policy. The Quarterly Review of Biology 79:447. Leslie, H. M. Positive intraspecific effects trump negative effects in high-density barnacle aggregations. Ecology 86(10):2716-25. Leslie, H. M. A synthesis of marine conservation planning approaches. Conservation Biology 19(6):1701-13. McLeod, K. M. and H. Leslie. Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: Transforming U.S. Ocean Policy. In M. Groom et al. (eds.), Principles of Conservation Biology (3rd Edition), pp. 476-479. Leslie, H. M., E. N. Breck, F. Chan, B. A. Menge, and J. Lubchenco. Barnacle reproductive hotspots linked to nearshore ocean conditions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102(30):10534-39. F.
Berkes, T. P. Hughes, R. S. Steneck, J.
A. Wilson, D. R. Bellwood, B. Crona, C. Folke,
L. H. Gunderson, H. M. Leslie, J. Norberg, M. Nyström,
P. Olsson, H. Österblom, M.
Scheffer, B. Worm. 2006. Globalization, roving bandits and
marine resources. Science 311:1557-58. T.P. Hughes, L. Gunderson, C. Folke, A. Baird, D. Bellwood, F. Leslie, H. M. and K. L. McLeod. Confronting the challenges of implementing marine ecosystem-based management. In press, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. In
Review/Preparation
H.
M. Leslie and A. P. Kinzig. Managing for resilience in
multi-state marine systems: the need for a coupled social-ecological
perspective. In review, Bioscience.K.
McLeod and H. M. Leslie (editors). Managing for
resilience: New directions for marine ecosystem-based management. Kinzig,
A.P. and H. M. Leslie. Consequences of resilience
thinking for marine ecosystem-based management Chapter
5 In: Managing
for resilience: New directions for marine ecosystem-based management. |
| Curriculum Vitae: PDF Ph.D. Thesis (2004): PDF
I
gratefully acknowledge support from
the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Princeton Environmental Institute. |
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