Mikko Heino

Professor

E-mailMikko.Heino@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 45 44
Visitor Address
Thormøhlens gate 53 A/B

5006 Bergen

Room
3G15
Postal Address
Postboks 7803

5020 Bergen

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!

BIO213 Marine ecology (autumn semester, in Norwegian)

BIO325 Ocean science (autumn semester, small contribution)

BIO210 Evolutionary biology (spring semester, small contribution)

BIO339 Ecosystem and Fisheries Assessment Models (spring semester)

Academic article

Show author(s) (2023). Size-selective harvesting alters biological traits of marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma). Fisheries Research.
Show author(s) (2023). Exploring fishing impacts on the structure and functioning of the Yellow Sea ecosystem using an individual-based modeling approach. Journal of Marine Systems.

Show author(s) (2022). The effects of selective harvest on Japanese Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus niphonius) phenotypic evolution. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 18 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). Size-selective harvesting affects the immunocompetence of guppies exposed to the parasite Gyrodactylus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 9 pages.
Show author(s) (2022). Natural and anthropogenic drivers of escaped farmed salmon occurrence and introgression into wild Norwegian Atlantic salmon populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1363-1379.
Show author(s) (2022). Gaussian mixture models reveal highly diverse targeting tactics in a coastal fishing fleet. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 2709-2727.
Show author(s) (2022). Environmental drivers of herring growth and how the perception shifts with time series length. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1282-1290.

Show author(s) (2021). The day-to-day supply responses of a limited-entry mixed fishery. Marine Resource Economics. 71-90.
Show author(s) (2021). Modern cities modelled as “super-cells” rather than multicellular organisms: Implications for industry, goods and services. Bioessays.
Show author(s) (2021). Harvesting forage fish can prevent fishing-induced population collapses of large piscivorous fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1-8.

Show author(s) (2020). Rapid life-history evolution in a wild Daphnia pulex population in response to novel size-dependent predation. Evolutionary Ecology. 257-271.
Show author(s) (2020). Life histories determine divergent population trends for fishes under climate warming. Nature Communications. 1-9.
Show author(s) (2020). Latitudinal differences in early growth of largehead hairtail (Trichiurus japonicus) in relation to environmental variables. Fisheries Oceanography. 470-483.
Show author(s) (2020). Evolution of reproduction periods in seasonal environments. The American Naturalist. E88-E109.
Show author(s) (2020). Eight decades of adaptive changes in herring reproductive investment: The joint effect of environment and exploitation. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 631-639.

Show author(s) (2019). The generalization of Gulland’s method: How to estimate maturity ogives when juvenile data are missing while spawner demography is known. Fisheries Research. 1-7.
Show author(s) (2019). Reaction norm analysis reveals rapid shifts toward delayed maturation in harvested Lake Erie yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Evolutionary Applications. 888-901.
Show author(s) (2019). Fine-scale characteristics of the boundaries between annual patches and perennial patches in a meadow steppe. Landscape Ecology. 811-825.
Show author(s) (2019). Evaluating effort regulation in mixed fisheries: a Monte Carlo approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 2114-2124.
Show author(s) (2019). Domesticated escapees on the run: The second-generation monitoring programme reports the numbers and proportions of farmed Atlantic salmon in >200 Norwegian rivers annually. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1151-1161.
Show author(s) (2019). Balanced harvest: concept, policies, evidence, and management implications. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 711-733.

Show author(s) (2018). Modeling fitness changes in wild Atlantic salmon populations faced by spawning intrusion of domesticated escapees. Evolutionary Applications. 1010-1025.
Show author(s) (2018). Life-history multistability caused by size-dependent mortality. The American Naturalist. 62-71.
Show author(s) (2018). Growth of wild and domesticated Atlantic cod Gadus morhua reared under semi-commercial conditions. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 187-200.
Show author(s) (2018). Density regulation in Northeast Atlantic fish populations: Density dependence is stronger in recruitment than in somatic growth. Journal of Animal Ecology. 672-681.
Show author(s) (2018). Adaptive and plastic variation in growth and maturation of the cutlassfish Trichiurus japonicus in the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bulletin. 171-182.
Show author(s) (2018). A global strategy to mitigate the environmental impact of China’s ruminant consumption boom. Nature Communications.

Show author(s) (2017). The bio-economic effects of artificial reefs: mixed evidence from Shandong, China. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 2239-2248.
Show author(s) (2017). Reproductive investment in Atlantic cod off Newfoundland: Contrasting trends between males and females. FACETS. 660-681.
Show author(s) (2017). Fishes of the Northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge collected during the MAR-ECO Cruise in June-July 2004. An annotated checklist. Arquipélago. Ciências biológicas e marinhas. Life and marine sciences.. 1-125.
Show author(s) (2017). Effects of ambient oxygen and size-selective mortality on maturation and growth in guppies. Conservation Physiology. 1-13.
Show author(s) (2017). A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 85-102.

Show author(s) (2016). Roles of density-dependent growth and life history evolution in accounting for fisheries-induced trait changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 15030-15035.
Show author(s) (2016). Are negative intra-specific interactions important for recruitment dynamics? A case study of Atlantic fish stocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 211-217.

Show author(s) (2015). The effect of the North Atlantic Subpolar Front as a boundary in pelagic biogeography decreases with increasing depth and organism size. Progress in Oceanography. 105-115.
Show author(s) (2015). Opposite selection on behavioural types by active and passive fishing gears in a simulated guppy Poecilia reticulata fishery. Journal of Fish Biology. 1030-1045.
Show author(s) (2015). IBSEM: An individual-based atlantic salmon population model. PLOS ONE.
Show author(s) (2015). Genetic introgression of farmed salmon in native populations: quantifying the relative influence of population size and frequency of escapees. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 185-190.
Show author(s) (2015). Fisheries-induced evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 461-480.

Show author(s) (2014). What can selection experiments teach us about fisheries-induced evolution? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 485-503.
Show author(s) (2014). Using simulated escape events to assess the annual numbers and destinies of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon of different life stages from farm sites in Norway. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 670-685.
Show author(s) (2014). Overlooked biological and economic implications of within-season fishery dynamics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 181-188.
Show author(s) (2014). Life-history implications of the allometric scaling of growth. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 199-207.
Show author(s) (2014). Evolutionary impact assessment: accounting for evolutionary consequences of fishing in an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. Fish and Fisheries. 65-96.
Show author(s) (2014). Evolution of age and length at maturation of Alaskan salmon under size-selective harvest. Evolutionary Applications. 313-322.
Show author(s) (2014). An overview of marine fisheries management in China. Marine Policy. 265-272.

Show author(s) (2013). The importance of social dimension and maturation stage for the probabilistic maturation reaction norm in Poecilia reticulata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2184-2196.
Show author(s) (2013). Is size-dependent pricing prevalent in fisheries? The case of Norwegian demersal and pelagic fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1389-1395.
Show author(s) (2013). Function-valued adaptive dynamics and optimal control theory. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 509-533.
Show author(s) (2013). Ecological and evolutionary effects of harvesting: lessons from the candy-fish experiment. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1281-1286.
Show author(s) (2013). Comparing proactive and reactive management: managing a transboundary fish stock under changing environment. Natural Resource Modeling. 480-504.
Show author(s) (2013). A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery. Marine Policy. 172-181.

Show author(s) (2012). Temporal stability of the maturation schedule of capelin Mallotus villosus in the Barents Sea. Aquatic Living Resources. 151-161.
Show author(s) (2012). Stock-catch analysis of carp recreational fisheries in Czech reservoirs: Insights into fish survival, water body productivity and impact of extreme events. Fisheries Research. 23-32.
Show author(s) (2012). Size-dependent mortality and competition interactively shape community diversity. Evolution. 3534-3544.
Show author(s) (2012). Seasonal dynamics of growth and mortality suggest contrasting population structure and ecology for cod, pollack and saithe in a Norwegian fjord. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 537-546.
Show author(s) (2012). Growth and maturation of Korean chum salmon under changing environmental conditions. Fisheries Research. 104-112.
Show author(s) (2012). Fishing-induced evolution of growth: concepts, mechanisms and the empirical evidence. Marine Ecology. 1-25.
Show author(s) (2012). Comparing rates of contemporary evolution in life-history traits for exploited fish stocks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1105-1120.

Show author(s) (2011). The latitudinal 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. 106-112.
Show author(s) (2011). Reduced daylength stimulates size-dependent precocious maturity in 0+male Atlantic salmon parr. Aquaculture. 168-174.
Show author(s) (2011). Optimal harvest feedback rule accounting for the fishing-up effect and size-dependent pricing. Natural Resource Modeling. 365-382.
Show author(s) (2011). Investigating the drivers of maturation dynamics in Barents Sea haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus). Fisheries Research. 441-449.
Show author(s) (2011). Does size matter? A bioeconomic perspective on optimal harvesting when price is size-dependent. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Show author(s) (2011). Does size matter? A bioeconomic perspective on optimal harvesting when price is size-dependent. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1651-1659.
Show author(s) (2011). Do accurate stock estimates increase harvest and reduce variability in fisheries yields? Natural Resource Modeling. 222-241.
Show author(s) (2011). Catchability of pelagic trawls for sampling deep-living nekton in the mid-North Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 377-389.

Show author(s) (2010). Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 483-493.
Show author(s) (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. 622-640.

Show author(s) (2009). Temporal trends in probabilistic maturation reaction norms and growth of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) on the Icelandic shelf. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1719-1733.

Show author(s) (2008). Vertical structure, biomass and topographic association of deep-pelagic fishes in relation to a mid-ocean ridge system. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 161-184.
Show author(s) (2008). Norwegian spring-spawning herring as the test case of piecewise linear regression method for detecting maturation from growth patterns. Journal of Fish Biology. 2452-2467.
Show author(s) (2008). Migrations and hydrography determine the abundance fluctuations of blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) in the Barents Sea. Fisheries Oceanography. 153-163.
Show author(s) (2008). Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems. Fisheries Research. 6-8.
Show author(s) (2008). Evolution of foraging strategies on resource gradients. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1131-1156.
Show author(s) (2008). Detecting fisheries-induced life-history evolution: An overview of the reaction-norm approach. Bulletin of marine science. 69-93.

Show author(s) (2007). Three-dimensional maturation reaction norms for North Sea plaice. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 213-224.
Show author(s) (2007). Interactions between economic growth and environmental quality in Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone. Ecological Economics. 559-570.

Show author(s) (2006). The adaptive dynamics of function-valued traits. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 370-389.
Show author(s) (2006). Function-valued adaptive dynamics and the calculus of variations. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 1-26.
Show author(s) (2006). Climate change and condition of herring (Clupea harengus) explain long-term trends in extent of skipped reproduction. Oecologia. 593-603.

Report

Show author(s) (2023). Rømt oppdrettslaks i vassdrag i 2022 — Rapport fra det Nasjonale Overvåkningsprogrammet for Rømt Oppdrettslaks. 2023 - 30. 2023 - 30. .

Show author(s) (2022). Rømt oppdrettslaks i vassdrag i 2021 : Rapport fra det nasjonale overvåkningsprogrammet. 2022 - 21. 2022 - 21. .

Show author(s) (2021). Rømt oppdrettslaks i vassdrag i 2020 - Rapport fra det nasjonale overvåkningsprogrammet. 2021 - 27. 2021 - 27. .

Show author(s) (2020). Escaped farmed salmon in Norwegian rivers in 2019 : Report from the national monitoring program. 2020 - 03. 2020 - 03. .

Show author(s) (2019). Rømt oppdrettslaks i vassdrag i 2018 : Rapport fra det nasjonale overvåkningsprogrammet. 2019 - 4. 2019 - 4. .

Show author(s) (2015). Norwegian fishery-independent information on trends in abundance and size distribution of Argentina silus in the Skagerrak and north-eastern North Sea (ICES Division IIIa and IVa). .
Show author(s) (2015). Balanced harvest in the real world. Scientific, policy and operational issues in an ecosystem approach to fisheries. .

Show author(s) (2011). Selective Fishing and Balanced Harvest in Relation to Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability. .

Show author(s) (2009). Scientists as facilitators: an objective technique to illustrate a zone of stakeholder consensus. .

Show author(s) (2008). Size structure, age-size dynamics and life history variation. .
Show author(s) (2008). Length structure of deep-pelagic fishes sheds new light to their life histories. .
Show author(s) (2008). Fisheries-induced evolution of body size and other life history traits: the impact of gear selectivity. .

Show author(s) (2006). Report on the diet of the blue whiting in the Barents Sea in the summer 2005 and in the winters of 2002 and 2006. 10. 10. .

Lecture

Show author(s) (2023). How does host crowding affect parasite life histories? A mark-recapture study in the ectoparasitic salmon louse (Lepeophtheirus salmonis).

Show author(s) (2022). Revealing harvesting patterns from fishing trips.

Show author(s) (2021). The spatial and temporal fishing patterns of the Norwegian coastal cod catching fleets.

Popular scientific lecture

Show author(s) (2020). Wildlife in China.
Show author(s) (2020). My article in Frontiers for Young Minds.

Show author(s) (2015). Wildlife in China.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2023). Whose fish are they? Opportunities and challenges arising from the range expansion of northern hake.
Show author(s) (2023). Survey time series integration: comparing video observations of snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) in the Barents Sea with demersal trawl and pot data .
Show author(s) (2023). Intraspecific life-history diversity in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) and its consequences for sustainable exploitation.

Show author(s) (2022). Shifting stocks and the consequences of non-adaptive transboundary fisheries agreements.
Show author(s) (2022). Multiple-trait responses to size-selective harvesting in experimental guppy populations.
Show author(s) (2022). How does fishing affect resistance? Empirical insights from a guppy-Gyrodactylus model system.
Show author(s) (2022). Gaussian mixture models reveal highly diverse fishing tactics in a coastal fishing fleet.
Show author(s) (2022). Fishing size-selection indirectly also selects on behaviour.

Show author(s) (2021). The day-to-day supply responses of a limited-entry mixed fishery.
Show author(s) (2021). Stock range shift and consequences of non-adapative fisheries agreements.
Show author(s) (2021). Fishing size-selection indirectly also selects on behaviour.
Show author(s) (2021). Cost of life-history adaptations: Multiple trait consequences of fisheries-induced evolution.
Show author(s) (2021). Cost of life-history adaptations: Multiple trait consequences of fisheries-induced evolution.

Show author(s) (2020). Ecology and evolution of sustainable exploitation of fish stocks.

Show author(s) (2019). Stock range shift and the consequence of adhering to pre-climate change agreements.
Show author(s) (2019). Rapid life-history evolution driven by predation and harvesting.
Show author(s) (2019). Rapid life-history evolution driven by extrinsic mortality.
Show author(s) (2019). Integrated assessments can reconcile stakeholder conflicts in managing renewable natural resources.
Show author(s) (2019). Fisheries-induced evolution of life histories.
Show author(s) (2019). Fisheries-induced evolution in the wild and in the lab.

Show author(s) (2018). Price Expectations and Supply Response of Coastal Mixed Fisheries.
Show author(s) (2018). Joint Stakeholder Satisfaction – a way forward toward reducing stakeholder conflicts in resource management?

Show author(s) (2017). Reconciling stakeholder conflicts in managing fish resources through integrating biological and socio-economic perspectives.
Show author(s) (2017). Price expectations and supply response of coastal mixed fisheries.
Show author(s) (2017). How does population regulation “work” in marine fish? Evidence from the Atlantic that density dependence is usually stronger in recruitment than in somatic growth.
Show author(s) (2017). Genomic effects of fishery-induced selection in guppy Poecilia reticulate.
Show author(s) (2017). Fisheries-induced evolution: What it is, why it may matter, and what can we do?
Show author(s) (2017). Fisheries – the greatest life-history experiment on earth.
Show author(s) (2017). Ecology and evolution of sustainable exploitation of fish stocks.
Show author(s) (2017). Drivers of recruitment dynamics in northeast Atlantic pelagic fish stocks.
Show author(s) (2017). Could integrated assessments reconcile stakeholder conflicts in managing fish resources?

Show author(s) (2016). Risk assessment of genetic impact of escaped farmed salmon on wild populations in Norway.
Show author(s) (2016). Evaluating effort regulation in mixed fisheries: a Monte Carlo approach.
Show author(s) (2016). Could integrated assessments reconcile stakeholder conflicts in managing renewable natural resources?
Show author(s) (2016). Changes in age and size at maturation of cod: plasticity and evolutionary change disentangled.
Show author(s) (2016). Estimating Supply Elasticity of Fish: the Case in Taiwan.

Show author(s) (2015). Fisheries-induced evolution and its management implications.
Show author(s) (2015). Fisheries-induced evolution.
Show author(s) (2015). Exploitation-induced evolution in fish.
Show author(s) (2015). Exploitation-induced evolution in fish.
Show author(s) (2015). Consequences of life-history variation in fish: insights from cod in Norway.
Show author(s) (2015). Consequences of life-history variation in fish: insights from cod in Norway.

Show author(s) (2014). Phenotypic and genetic changes in life history traits in experimental populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) that experienced size-selective fishing.
Show author(s) (2014). How strong is fisheries-induced selection? An assessment of selection differentials caused by fishing.
Show author(s) (2014). Does fishing affect behaviour? An experimental test with guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations.
Show author(s) (2014). Changes in productivity and life-history traits in experimentally harvested guppy populations.
Show author(s) (2014). Changes in age and size at maturation of Northeast Arctic cod are driven by the interplay between environmentally-induced phenotypic plasticity and fisheries-induced selection.

Show author(s) (2013). Length structure of deep-pelagic fishes sheds new light to their life histories.
Show author(s) (2013). Fisheries-induced evolution and sustainable fisheries.
Show author(s) (2013). Do sustainable harvesting strategies need to account for fisheries-induced evolution?

Show author(s) (2012). Dynamics of size-selective exploitation and changes in life history traits in experimental populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

Show author(s) (2010). Global Warming and International Fishery Management: Does Anticipation of Temperature Change Matter?

Editorial

Show author(s) (2012). Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries. Science. 1045-1047.

Show author(s) (2009). Toward Darwinian fisheries management. Evolutionary Applications. 246-259.

Show author(s) (2008). Evolution of growth in Gulf of St Lawrence cod? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 1111-1112.

Show author(s) (2007). Ecology - Managing evolving fish stocks. Science. 1247-1248.

Reader opinion piece

Show author(s) (2012). KalanviljelylIe ei pidä asettaa epärealistisia odotuksia. Helsingin sanomat.

Show author(s) (2008). The role of fisheries-induced evolution - Response. Science. 48-50.

Masters thesis

Show author(s) (2016). Fisheries-induced evolution in morphology: a selection experiment on the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).

Show author(s) (2015). Effect of ambient oxygen on the life history of Guppies (Poecilia reticulata).

Show author(s) (2014). Changes in growth under size-selective mortality using otolith microstructure analysis.

Show author(s) (2013). Consequences of size-dependent harvest in guppy: study of morphological traits and their heritability.

Show author(s) (2007). Population parameters of coastal Northeast Arctic saithe (Pollacius virens).

Research groups

Evolutionary ecology