- E-mailMikko.Heino@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 45 44
- Visitor AddressThormøhlens gate 53 A/BRoom3G15
- Postal AddressPostboks 78035020 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!
Academic article
- 2021. The day-to-day supply responses of a limited-entry mixed fishery. Marine Resource Economics. 71-90.
- 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. 8 pages.
- 2020. Rapid life-history evolution in a wild Daphnia pulex population in response to novel size-dependent predation. Evolutionary Ecology. 257-271.
- 2020. Life histories determine divergent population trends for fishes under climate warming. Nature Communications. 1-9.
- 2020. Latitudinal differences in early growth of largehead hairtail (Trichiurus japonicus) in relation to environmental variables. Fisheries Oceanography. 470-483.
- 2020. Evolution of reproduction periods in seasonal environments. The American Naturalist. E88-E109.
- 2020. Eight decades of adaptive changes in herring reproductive investment: the joint effect of environment and exploitation. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1-9.
- 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.
- 2019. Reaction norm analysis reveals rapid shifts toward delayed maturation in harvested Lake Erie yellow perch (Perca flavescens). Evolutionary Applications. 888-901.
- 2019. Fine-scale characteristics of the boundaries between annual patches and perennial patches in a meadow steppe. Landscape Ecology. 811-825.
- 2019. Evaluating effort regulation in mixed fisheries: a Monte Carlo approach. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 2114-2124.
- 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.
- 2019. Balanced harvest: concept, policies, evidence, and management implications. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 711-733.
- 2018. Modeling fitness changes in wild Atlantic salmon populations faced by spawning intrusion of domesticated escapees. Evolutionary Applications. 1010-1025.
- 2018. Life-history multistability caused by size-dependent mortality. The American Naturalist. 62-71.
- 2018. Growth of wild and domesticated Atlantic cod Gadus morhua reared under semi-commercial conditions. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 187-200.
- 2018. Density regulation in Northeast Atlantic fish populations: Density dependence is stronger in recruitment than in somatic growth. Journal of Animal Ecology. 672-681.
- 2018. Adaptive and plastic variation in growth and maturation of the cutlassfish Trichiurus japonicus in the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bulletin. 171-182.
- 2018. A global strategy to mitigate the environmental impact of China’s ruminant consumption boom. Nature Communications.
- 2017. The bio-economic effects of artificial reefs: mixed evidence from Shandong, China. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 2239-2248.
- 2017. Reproductive investment in Atlantic cod off Newfoundland: Contrasting trends between males and females. FACETS. 660-681.
- 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.
- 2017. Effects of ambient oxygen and size-selective mortality on maturation and growth in guppies. Conservation Physiology. 1-13.
- 2017. A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 85-102.
- 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.
- 2016. Are negative intra-specific interactions important for recruitment dynamics? A case study of Atlantic fish stocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 211-217.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2015. IBSEM: An individual-based atlantic salmon population model. PLOS ONE.
- 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.
- 2015. Fisheries-induced evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 461-480.
- 2014. What can selection experiments teach us about fisheries-induced evolution? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 485-503.
- 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.
- 2014. Overlooked biological and economic implications of within-season fishery dynamics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 181-188.
- 2014. Life-history implications of the allometric scaling of growth. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 199-207.
- 2014. Evolutionary impact assessment: accounting for evolutionary consequences of fishing in an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. Fish and Fisheries. 65-96.
- 2014. Evolution of age and length at maturation of Alaskan salmon under size-selective harvest. Evolutionary Applications. 313-322.
- 2014. An overview of marine fisheries management in China. Marine Policy. 265-272.
- 2013. The importance of social dimension and maturation stage for the probabilistic maturation reaction norm in Poecilia reticulata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 2184-2196.
- 2013. Is size-dependent pricing prevalent in fisheries? The case of Norwegian demersal and pelagic fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1389-1395.
- 2013. Function-valued adaptive dynamics and optimal control theory. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 509-533.
- 2013. Ecological and evolutionary effects of harvesting: lessons from the candy-fish experiment. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1281-1286.
- 2013. Comparing proactive and reactive management: managing a transboundary fish stock under changing environment. Natural Resource Modeling. 480-504.
- 2013. A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery. Marine Policy. 172-181.
- 2012. Temporal stability of the maturation schedule of capelin Mallotus villosus in the Barents Sea. Aquatic Living Resources. 151-161.
- 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.
- 2012. Size-dependent mortality and competition interactively shape community diversity. Evolution. 3534-3544.
- 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.
- 2012. Growth and maturation of Korean chum salmon under changing environmental conditions. Fisheries Research. 104-112.
- 2012. Fishing-induced evolution of growth: concepts, mechanisms and the empirical evidence. Marine Ecology. 1-25.
- 2012. Comparing rates of contemporary evolution in life-history traits for exploited fish stocks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1105-1120.
- 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.
- 2011. Reduced daylength stimulates size-dependent precocious maturity in 0+male Atlantic salmon parr. Aquaculture. 168-174.
- 2011. Optimal harvest feedback rule accounting for the fishing-up effect and size-dependent pricing. Natural Resource Modeling. 365-382.
- 2011. Investigating the drivers of maturation dynamics in Barents Sea haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus). Fisheries Research. 441-449.
- 2011. Does size matter? A bioeconomic perspective on optimal harvesting when price is size-dependent. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
- 2011. Does size matter? A bioeconomic perspective on optimal harvesting when price is size-dependent. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 1651-1659.
- 2011. Do accurate stock estimates increase harvest and reduce variability in fisheries yields? Natural Resource Modeling. 222-241.
- 2011. Catchability of pelagic trawls for sampling deep-living nekton in the mid-North Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 377-389.
- 2010. Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 483-493.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008. Migrations and hydrography determine the abundance fluctuations of blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) in the Barents Sea. Fisheries Oceanography. 153-163.
- 2008. Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems. Fisheries Research. 6-8.
- 2008. Evolution of foraging strategies on resource gradients. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 1131-1156.
- 2008. Detecting fisheries-induced life-history evolution: An overview of the reaction-norm approach. Bulletin of marine science. 69-93.
- 2007. Three-dimensional maturation reaction norms for North Sea plaice. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 213-224.
- 2007. Interactions between economic growth and environmental quality in Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone. Ecological Economics. 559-570.
- 2006. The adaptive dynamics of function-valued traits. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 370-389.
- 2006. Function-valued adaptive dynamics and the calculus of variations. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 1-26.
- 2006. Climate change and condition of herring (Clupea harengus) explain long-term trends in extent of skipped reproduction. Oecologia. 593-603.
Report
- 2020. Escaped farmed salmon in Norwegian rivers in 2019 : Report from the national monitoring program. 2020 - 03. 2020 - 03. .
- 2019. Rømt oppdrettslaks i vassdrag i 2018 : Rapport fra det nasjonale overvåkningsprogrammet. 2019 - 4. 2019 - 4. .
- 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). .
- 2015. Balanced harvest in the real world. Scientific, policy and operational issues in an ecosystem approach to fisheries. .
- 2011. Selective Fishing and Balanced Harvest in Relation to Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability. .
- 2009. Scientists as facilitators: an objective technique to illustrate a zone of stakeholder consensus. .
- 2008. Size structure, age-size dynamics and life history variation. .
- 2008. Length structure of deep-pelagic fishes sheds new light to their life histories. .
- 2008. Fisheries-induced evolution of body size and other life history traits: the impact of gear selectivity. .
- 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. .
Popular scientific lecture
- 2020. Wildlife in China.
- 2020. My article in Frontiers for Young Minds.
- 2015. Wildlife in China.
Academic lecture
- 2020. Ecology and evolution of sustainable exploitation of fish stocks.
- 2019. Stock range shift and the consequence of adhering to pre-climate change agreements.
- 2019. Rapid life-history evolution driven by predation and harvesting.
- 2019. Rapid life-history evolution driven by extrinsic mortality.
- 2019. Integrated assessments can reconcile stakeholder conflicts in managing renewable natural resources.
- 2019. Fisheries-induced evolution of life histories.
- 2019. Fisheries-induced evolution in the wild and in the lab.
- 2018. Price Expectations and Supply Response of Coastal Mixed Fisheries.
- 2018. Joint Stakeholder Satisfaction – a way forward toward reducing stakeholder conflicts in resource management?
- 2017. Reconciling stakeholder conflicts in managing fish resources through integrating biological and socio-economic perspectives.
- 2017. Price expectations and supply response of coastal mixed fisheries.
- 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.
- 2017. Genomic effects of fishery-induced selection in guppy Poecilia reticulate.
- 2017. Fisheries-induced evolution: What it is, why it may matter, and what can we do?
- 2017. Fisheries – the greatest life-history experiment on earth.
- 2017. Ecology and evolution of sustainable exploitation of fish stocks.
- 2017. Drivers of recruitment dynamics in northeast Atlantic pelagic fish stocks.
- 2017. Could integrated assessments reconcile stakeholder conflicts in managing fish resources?
- 2016. Risk assessment of genetic impact of escaped farmed salmon on wild populations in Norway.
- 2016. Evaluating effort regulation in mixed fisheries: a Monte Carlo approach.
- 2016. Could integrated assessments reconcile stakeholder conflicts in managing renewable natural resources?
- 2016. Changes in age and size at maturation of cod: plasticity and evolutionary change disentangled.
- 2016. Estimating Supply Elasticity of Fish: the Case in Taiwan.
- 2015. Fisheries-induced evolution and its management implications.
- 2015. Fisheries-induced evolution.
- 2015. Exploitation-induced evolution in fish.
- 2015. Exploitation-induced evolution in fish.
- 2015. Consequences of life-history variation in fish: insights from cod in Norway.
- 2015. Consequences of life-history variation in fish: insights from cod in Norway.
- 2014. Phenotypic and genetic changes in life history traits in experimental populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata) that experienced size-selective fishing.
- 2014. How strong is fisheries-induced selection? An assessment of selection differentials caused by fishing.
- 2014. Does fishing affect behaviour? An experimental test with guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations.
- 2014. Changes in productivity and life-history traits in experimentally harvested guppy populations.
- 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.
- 2013. Length structure of deep-pelagic fishes sheds new light to their life histories.
- 2013. Fisheries-induced evolution and sustainable fisheries.
- 2013. Do sustainable harvesting strategies need to account for fisheries-induced evolution?
- 2012. Dynamics of size-selective exploitation and changes in life history traits in experimental populations of guppies (Poecilia reticulata).
- 2010. Global Warming and International Fishery Management: Does Anticipation of Temperature Change Matter?
Editorial
- 2012. Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries. Science. 1045-1047.
- 2009. Toward Darwinian fisheries management. Evolutionary Applications. 246-259.
- 2008. Evolution of growth in Gulf of St Lawrence cod? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 1111-1112.
- 2007. Ecology - Managing evolving fish stocks. Science. 1247-1248.
Reader opinion piece
- 2012. KalanviljelylIe ei pidä asettaa epärealistisia odotuksia. Helsingin sanomat.
- 2008. The role of fisheries-induced evolution - Response. Science. 48-50.
Masters thesis
- 2016. Fisheries-induced evolution in morphology: a selection experiment on the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata).
- 2015. Effect of ambient oxygen on the life history of Guppies (Poecilia reticulata).
- 2014. Changes in growth under size-selective mortality using otolith microstructure analysis.
- 2013. Consequences of size-dependent harvest in guppy: study of morphological traits and their heritability.
- 2007. Population parameters of coastal Northeast Arctic saithe (Pollacius virens).
Popular scientific article
- 2020. Fishing can turn big fish into small fish. Frontiers for Young Minds.
- 2009. The dawn of Darwinian fishery management. ICES Insight. 34-43.
Feature article
- 2011. Gode gener ut. Dagens næringsliv. 26-27.
Letter to the editor
- 2017. Reply to Enberg and Jørgensen: Ecology and evolution both matter for explaining stock dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. E4322-E4323.
Doctoral dissertation
- 2012. Contemporary evolution caused by fisheries. Contributions from experimental studies.
- 2008. Uncertainty in fish stock assessment – methodological and institutional aspects of ICES advice.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- 2014. Quantitative traits. 18 pages.
- 2012. The dawn of Darwinian fishery management. 23 pages.
- 2010. Northeast Atlantic blue whiting. 6 pages.
- 2010. Biodiversity patterns and processes on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. 19 pages.
- 2009. Fisheries-induced evolution. 7 pages.
- 2008. Evolution and sustainability of harvested populations. 16 pages.
Encyclopedia article
- 2008. Sustainable use of populations and overexploitation. . In:
- 2008. The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). Evolution & Diversity of Life.
Poster
- 2017. What information can be gleaned from length distributions?
- 2014. How strong is fisheries-induced selection? A general framework for estimating fisheries-induced selection differentials.
- 2013. Reconciling stakeholder conflicts through integrated assessments of sustainable harvesting strategies.
- 2013. Fisheries impact on life-history: Phenotypic changes in life-history of size-selected guppy populations.
- 2012. The behavioural effect of fishing. Do personality types differ in vulnerability to fishing gear?
- 2011. Experimental approach to the study of fisheries induced evolution.
- 2010. Estimation of Probabilistic Maturation Reaction Norms (PMRN) under laboratory conditions.
- 2009. Can we harvest sustainably? An experimental approach with humans as the exploiting agents.
Academic literature review
- 2016. Balanced harvest: Utopia, failure, or a functional strategy? ICES Journal of Marine Science. 1616-1622.
- 2014. What can selection experiments teach us about fisheries-induced evolution? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 485-503.
- 2013. Can fisheries-induced evolution shift reference points for fisheries management? ICES Journal of Marine Science. 707-721.
- 2012. Secondary sexual characteristics in codfishes (Gadidae) in relation to sound production, habitat use and social behaviour. Marine Biology Research. 201-209.
- 2011. Evolutionary principles and their practical application. Evolutionary Applications. 159-183.
- 2011. Evolution in agriculture: the application of evolutionary approaches to the management of biotic interactions in agro-ecosystems. Evolutionary Applications. 200-215.
- 2009. Propensity of marine reserves to reduce the evolutionary effects of fishing in a migratory species. Evolutionary Applications. 371-393.
- 2009. Implications of fisheries-induced evolution for stock rebuilding and recovery. Evolutionary Applications. 394-414.
- 2009. Eco-genetic modeling of contemporary life-history evolution. Ecological Applications. 1815-1834.
- 2008. Evolutionary consequences of fishing and their implications for salmon. Evolutionary Applications. 388-408.
- 2007. Probabilistic maturation reaction norms: their history, strengths, and limitations. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 253-269.
Chapter
- 2020. Ytterligere genetisk endring hos villaks som følge av rømt oppdrettslaks. . In:
- 2020. Kunnskapsstatus - miljøeffekter av norsk fiskeoppdrett 2019 : Risikorapport norsk fiskeoppdrett, del 2. 2020 - 06. 2020 - 06. .
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
For a rather complete list see my Google Scholar profile.
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