Mikko Petteri Heino

Homepage: http://www.bio.uib.no/evofish/mh/

Title: Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 45 44

E-mail: Mikko.Heino@bio.uib.no

Visiting address: Thormøhlensgt. 53 A/B

Room number: 3G15

In brief:

• Fisheries-induced evolution
• Applied evolution
• Fish and fisheries ecology
• Life history theory
• Resource economics

A more wordy version:

Ecology is about how nature functions. This complex question can be studied at various levels; what mostly captures my interest is the level of individuals, and populations and communities they belong to. When I see animal (or plants or fungi), I cannot help thinking their place in a larger context: why are they so many or few, small or large, juveniles or adults? Population is hardly ever something one can see, so an observer has to deduce its 'working' from small pieces of information.

Populations today and tomorrow are connected by laws of population dynamics. This provides the basic framework for understanding how populations work, the realm of population ecology. However, this leaves a question why things are as they are? Here evolution by natural selection can provide answers: individuals in populations are shaped by their environment, but they are also shaping their own environment. This is the realm of evolutionary ecology.

Today, we humans are an important part of the environment, particularly for those populations we exploit, notably fish. Fisheries-induced evolution is currently my main research area. As evolution may work against our interests, understanding fisheries-induced evolution is a very important area of applied evolution. At the same time, it provides an opportunity to understand and test the basic principles of life-history theory.

In EvoFish, we are approaching these questions from multiple angles. Traditionally, our strength has been in modelling and statistical analyses of population data. However, we have also two experimental systems, one with guppies and another one with daphnids. These are now reaching maturity, and cool results are sure to follow!

Editor in the Ecology Letters and in the ICES Journal of Marine Science

First-hand experience as a provider of scientific advice to resource managers, 2001-2007.

PhD University of Helsinki, animal ecology, 1998

MSc University of Helsinki, animal ecology and mathematics, 1994

Publications in Cristin

In 2010-2011:

• Devine, J. A., and Heino, M. 2011. Investigating the drivers of maturation dynamics in Barents Sea haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus). Fisheries Research, 110: 441-449.
• Ditrich, T., Papáček, M., and Heino, M. 2011. The clinal uniformity of the unique life history of Velia caprai (Heteroptera: Veliidae) and notes to the pre-overwintering period of selected water striders (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Entomologica Fennica, 22: 106-112.
•  Dolgov, A. V., Johannesen, E., Heino, M., and Olsen, E. 2010. Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 483-493.
• Enberg, K., Jørgensen, C., Dunlop, E. S., Varpe, Ø., Boukal, D. S., Baulier, L., Eliassen, S., et al. 2012. Fishing-induced evolution of growth: concepts, mechanisms, and the empirical evidence. Marine Ecology.
• Garcia, S. M., Kolding, J., Rice, J. C., Rochet, M.-J., Zhou, S., Arimoto, T., Beyer, J. E., et al. 2011. Selective Fishing and Balanced Harvest in Relation to Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability. Report of a scientific workshop organized by the IUCN-CEM Fisheries Expert Group (FEG) and the European Bureau for Conservation and Development (EBCD) in Nagoya (Japan), 14–16 October 2010. IUCN and EBCD, Gland, Switzerland and Brussels, Belgium. 33 pp.
• Heino, M. 2010. Northeast Atlantic blue whiting. In Life-cycle spatial patterns of small pelagic fish in the Northeast Atlantic, pp. 59-64. Ed by P. Petitgas. ICES Cooperative Research Report. ICES, Copenhagen.
• Heino, M., Porteiro, F. M., Sutton, T. T., Falkenhaug, T., Godø, O. R., and Piatkowski, U. 2011. Catchability of pelagic trawls for sampling deep-living nekton in the mid-North Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 377-389.
• Heino, M., Rijnsdorp, A. D., and Dieckmann, U. 2012. The dawn of Darwinian fishery management. In Pragmatic Evolution: Applications of Evolutionary Theory, pp. 81-103. Ed by A. Poiani. Cambridge University Press.
• Hendry, A. P., Kinnison, M. T., Heino, M., Day, T., Smith, T. B., Fitt, G., Bergstrom, C. T., et al. 2011. Evolutionary principles and their practical application. Evolutionary Applications, 4: 159-183.
• Myrseth, J., Enberg, K., Heino, M., and Fiksen, Ø. 2011. Do accurate stock estimates increase harvest and reduce variability in fisheries yields? Natural Resource Modeling, 24: 222-241.
• Skilbrei, O. T., and Heino, M. 2011. Reduced daylength stimulates size-dependent precocious maturity in 0+ male Atlantic salmon parr. Aquaculture, 311: 168-174.
• Skjæraasen, J. E., Meager, J. J., and Heino, M. 2012. Secondary sexual characteristics in codfishes (Gadidae) in relation to sound production, habitat use, and social behaviour. Marine Biology Research.
• Thrall, P. H., Oakeshott, J. G., Fitt, G., Southerton, S., Burdon, J. J., Sheppard, A., Russell, R. J., et al. 2011. Evolution in agriculture: the application of evolutionary approaches to the management of biotic interactions in agro-ecosystems. Evolutionary Applications, 4: 200-215.
• Vainikka, A., Kallio-Nyberg, I., Heino, M., and Koljonen, M.-L. 2010. Divergent trends in life-history traits between Atlantic salmon Salmo salar of wild and hatchery origin in the Baltic Sea. Journal of Fish Biology, 76: 622-640.
• Vecchione, M., Bergstad, O. A., Byrkjedal, I., Falkenhaug, T., Gebruk, A. V., Godø, O. R., Gislason, A., et al. 2010. Biodiversity patterns and processes on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. In Life in the World’s Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance, pp. 103-121. Ed by A. D. McIntyre. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
• Zimmermann, F., Heino, M., and Steinshamn, S. I. 2011. Does size matter? A bioeconomic perspective on optimal harvesting when price is size-dependent. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 68: 1651-1659.
• Zimmermann, F., Steinshamn, S. I., and Heino, M. 2011. Optimal harvest feedback rule accounting for the fishing-up effect and size-dependent pricing. Natural Resource Modeling, 24: 365-382.

For a more complete list please see http://home.broadpark.no/~mheino/publications.html

MAR331 Fisheries management (spring semester)

BIO210 Evolutionary biology (spring 2012)

MAR230 Fisheries ecology (autumn semester, tiny contribution)