- E-mailMikko.Heino@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 45 44+47 412 73 454
- Visitor AddressThormøhlensgt. 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!
- 2018. Modeling fitness changes in wild Atlantic salmon populations faced by spawning intrusion of domesticated escapees. Evolutionary Applications. 11: 1010-1025. doi: 10.1111/eva.12615
- 2018. A global strategy to mitigate the environmental impact of China’s ruminant consumption boom. Nature Communications. 9. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-06381-0
- 2018. Growth of wild and domesticated Atlantic cod Gadus morhua reared under semi-commercial conditions. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 10: 187-200. doi: 10.3354/aei00262
- 2018. Life-history multistability caused by size-dependent mortality. American Naturalist. 192: 62-71. doi: 10.1086/697412
- 2018. Adaptive and plastic variation in growth and maturation of the cutlassfish Trichiurus japonicus in the subtropical Pacific Ocean. Fishery Bulletin. 116: 171-182. doi: 10.7755/FB.116.2.6
- 2018. Density regulation in Northeast Atlantic fish populations: Density dependence is stronger in recruitment than in somatic growth. Journal of Animal Ecology. 87: 672-681. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.12800
- 2017. Reproductive investment in Atlantic cod off Newfoundland: Contrasting trends between males and females. FACETS. 2: 660-681. doi: 10.1139/facets-2017-0005
- 2017. Effects of ambient oxygen and size-selective mortality on maturation and growth in guppies. Conservation Physiology. 5:cox010: 1-13. doi: 10.1093/conphys/cox010
- 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. 114: E4322-E4323. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1703865114
- 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. The bio-economic effects of artificial reefs: mixed evidence from Shandong, China. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 74: 2239-2248. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx058
- 2017. A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 126: 85-102. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr.2017.05.006
- 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. 113: 15030-15035. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1525749113
- 2016. Balanced harvest: Utopia, failure, or a functional strategy? ICES Journal of Marine Science. 73: 1616-1622. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsw060
- 2016. Are negative intra-specific interactions important for recruitment dynamics? A case study of Atlantic fish stocks. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 547: 211-217. Published 2016-04-07. doi: 10.3354/meps11625
- 2015. IBSEM: An individual-based atlantic salmon population model. PLoS ONE. 10:e0138444. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138444
- 2015. Opposite selection on behavioural types by active and passive fishing gears in a simulated guppy Poecilia reticulata fishery. Journal of Fish Biology. 86: 1030-1045. doi: 10.1111/jfb.12620
- 2015. Fisheries-induced evolution. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. 46: 461-480. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054339
- 2015. Genetic introgression of farmed salmon in native populations: quantifying the relative influence of population size and frequency of escapees. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 6: 185-190. doi: 10.3354/aei00126
- 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. 138: 105-115. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2015.08.006
- 2014. Life-history implications of the allometric scaling of growth. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 359: 199-207. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.05.022
- 2014. What can selection experiments teach us about fisheries-induced evolution? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 111: 485-503. doi: 10.1111/bij.12241
- 2014. Evolution of age and length at maturation of Alaskan salmon under size-selective harvest. Evolutionary Applications. 7: 313-322. doi: 10.1111/eva.12123
- 2014. Evolutionary impact assessment: accounting for evolutionary consequences of fishing in an ecosystem approach to fisheries management. Fish and Fisheries. 15: 65-96. doi: 10.1111/faf.12007
- 2014. Overlooked biological and economic implications of within-season fishery dynamics. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 71: 181-188. doi: 10.1139/cjfas-2013-0029
- 2014. An overview of marine fisheries management in China. Marine Policy. 44: 265-272. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2013.09.012
- 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. 72: 670-685. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsu133
- 2013. Ecological and evolutionary effects of harvesting: lessons from the candy-fish experiment. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 70: 1281-1286. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fst160
- 2013. The importance of social dimension and maturation stage for the probabilistic maturation reaction norm in Poecilia reticulata. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 2184-2196. doi: 10.1111/jeb.12215
- 2013. A bio-economic analysis of harvest control rules for the Northeast Arctic cod fishery. Marine Policy. 39: 172-181. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.10.020
- 2013. Can fisheries-induced evolution shift reference points for fisheries management? ICES Journal of Marine Science. 70: 707-721. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fst077
- 2013. Comparing proactive and reactive management: managing a transboundary fish stock under changing environment. Natural Resource Modeling. 26: 480-504. doi: 10.1111/nrm.12009
- 2013. Function-valued adaptive dynamics and optimal control theory. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 67: 509-533. doi: 10.1007/s00285-012-0549-2
- 2013. Is size-dependent pricing prevalent in fisheries? The case of Norwegian demersal and pelagic fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 70: 1389-1395. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fst121
- 2012. Temporal stability of the maturation schedule of capelin Mallotus villosus in the Barents Sea. Aquatic Living Resources. 25: 151-161. doi: 10.1051/alr/2012014
- 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. 119: 23-32. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.12.003
- 2012. Comparing rates of contemporary evolution in life-history traits for exploited fish stocks. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 69: 1105-1120. doi: 10.1139/F2012-047
- 2012. Fishing-induced evolution of growth: concepts, mechanisms and the empirical evidence. Marine Ecology. 33: 1-25. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2011.00460.x
- 2012. Reconsidering the Consequences of Selective Fisheries. Science. 335: 1045-1047. doi: 10.1126/science.1214594
- 2012. KalanviljelylIe ei pidä asettaa epärealistisia odotuksia. Helsingin sanomat. Published 2012-11-19.
- 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. 69: 537-546. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fss043
- 2012. Secondary sexual characteristics in codfishes (Gadidae) in relation to sound production, habitat use and social behaviour. Marine Biology Research. 8: 201-209. doi: 10.1080/17451000.2011.637562
- 2012. Size-dependent mortality and competition interactively shape community diversity. Evolution. 66: 3534-3544. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01692.x
- 2012. Growth and maturation of Korean chum salmon under changing environmental conditions. Fisheries Research. 134-136: 104-112. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2012.08.008
- 2011. Investigating the drivers of maturation dynamics in Barents Sea haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus). Fisheries Research. 110: 441-449. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.05.016
- 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. 22: 106-112.
- 2011. Catchability of pelagic trawls for sampling deep-living nekton in the mid-North Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 68: 377-389. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq089
- 2011. Gode gener ut. Dagens næringsliv. 26-27. Published 2011-12-05.
- 2011. Evolutionary principles and their practical application. Evolutionary Applications. 4: 159-183. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00165.x
- 2011. Do accurate stock estimates increase harvest and reduce variability in fisheries yields? Natural Resource Modeling. 24: 222-241. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2011.00089.x
- 2011. Reduced daylength stimulates size-dependent precocious maturity in 0+male Atlantic salmon parr. Aquaculture. 311: 168-174. doi: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2010.12.004
- 2011. Evolution in agriculture: the application of evolutionary approaches to the management of biotic interactions in agro-ecosystems. Evolutionary Applications. 4: 200-215. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00179.x
- 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. doi: 10.1139/F2011-093
- 2011. Does size matter? A bioeconomic perspective on optimal harvesting when price is size-dependent. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
- 2011. Optimal harvest feedback rule accounting for the fishing-up effect and size-dependent pricing. Natural Resource Modeling. 24: 365-382. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2011.00095.x
- 2010. Trophic ecology of blue whiting in the Barents Sea. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 67: 483-493. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp254
- 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. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02520.x
- 2009. The dawn of Darwinian fishery management. ICES Insight. 46. 34-43.
- 2009. Propensity of marine reserves to reduce the evolutionary effects of fishing in a migratory species. Evolutionary Applications. 2: 371-393. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00089.x
- 2009. Toward Darwinian fisheries management. Evolutionary Applications. 2: 246-259. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00087.x
- 2009. Eco-genetic modeling of contemporary life-history evolution. Ecological Applications. 19: 1815-1834.
- 2009. Implications of fisheries-induced evolution for stock rebuilding and recovery. Evolutionary Applications. 2: 394-414. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2009.00077.x
- 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. 66: 1719-1733. doi: 10.1139/F09-132
- 2008. Norwegian spring-spawning herring as the test case of piecewise linear regression method for detecting maturation from growth patterns. Journal of Fish Biology. 73: 2452-2467. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.02088.x
- 2008. Evolutionary consequences of fishing and their implications for salmon. Evolutionary Applications. 1: 388-408. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-4571.2008.00020.x
- 2008. Evolution of growth in Gulf of St Lawrence cod? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 275: 1111-1112. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2007.1429
- 2008. Detecting fisheries-induced life-history evolution: An overview of the reaction-norm approach. Bulletin of marine science. 83: 69-93.
- 2008. Migrations and hydrography determine the abundance fluctuations of blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou) in the Barents Sea. Fisheries Oceanography. 17: 153-163. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00472.x
- 2008. Evolution of foraging strategies on resource gradients. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 10: 1131-1156.
- 2008. Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems. Fisheries Research. 90: 6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2007.11.025
- 2008. The role of fisheries-induced evolution - Response. Science. 320: 48-50.
- 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. 55: 161-184. doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.09.013
- 2007. Probabilistic maturation reaction norms: their history, strengths, and limitations. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 335: 253-269.
- 2007. Three-dimensional maturation reaction norms for North Sea plaice. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 334: 213-224.
- 2007. Ecology - Managing evolving fish stocks. Science. 318: 1247-1248. doi: 10.1126/science.1148089
- 2007. Interactions between economic growth and environmental quality in Shenzhen, China's first special economic zone. Ecological Economics. 62: 559-570. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.07.020
- 2006. The adaptive dynamics of function-valued traits. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 241: 370-389. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.12.002
- 2006. Climate change and condition of herring (Clupea harengus) explain long-term trends in extent of skipped reproduction. Oecologia. 149: 593-603. doi: 10.1007/s00442-006-0483-3
- 2006. Function-valued adaptive dynamics and the calculus of variations. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 52: 1-26. doi: 10.1007/s00285-005-0329-3
- 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). Havforskningsinstituttet. Arbeidsdokument til ICES WGDEEP., Bergen. 11 pages.
- 2015. Balanced harvest in the real world. Scientific, policy and operational issues in an ecosystem approach to fisheries. IUCN, EBCD & FAO, Gland (Switzerland), Brussels (Belgium) & Rome (Italy). 94 pages.
- 2011. Selective Fishing and Balanced Harvest in Relation to Fisheries and Ecosystem Sustainability. IUCN, Gland. 33 pages.
- 2009. Scientists as facilitators: an objective technique to illustrate a zone of stakeholder consensus. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 11 pages.
- 2008. Fisheries-induced evolution of body size and other life history traits: the impact of gear selectivity. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 7 pages.
- 2008. Size structure, age-size dynamics and life history variation. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 7 pages.
- 2008. Length structure of deep-pelagic fishes sheds new light to their life histories. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 6 pages.
- 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. Fisken og Havet. 2006: 10. Havforskingsinsituttet, Bergen. 16 pages.
- 2014. Quantitative traits. 4, pages 59-76. In:
- 2014. Stock Identification Methods: Applications in Fishery Science. 2nd edition. Academic Press. 566 pages. ISBN: 978-0-12-397003-9.
- 2012. The dawn of Darwinian fishery management. 5, pages 81-103. In:
- 2012. Pragmatic Evolution: Applications of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge University Press. 340 pages. ISBN: 978-0-521-76055-3.
- 2010. Northeast Atlantic blue whiting. 11, pages 59-64. In:
- 2010. Life-cycle spatial patterns of small pelagic fish in the Northeast Atlantic. International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen. 93 pages.
- 2010. Biodiversity patterns and processes on the Mid-Atlantic ridge. 6, pages 103-121. In:
- 2010. Life in the World's Oceans: Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance. Blackwell Publishing. 384 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4051-9297-2.
- 2009. Fisheries-induced evolution. 10.1002/9780470015902.a0021213, pages . In:
- 2009. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons. 18348 pages. ISBN: 0-470-01590-X.
- 2008. Evolution and sustainability of harvested populations. Kapittel, pages 308-323. In:
- 2008. Conservation Biology. Evolution in Action. Oxford University Press. 432 pages. ISBN: 9780195306781.
- 2008. Ustainable use of populations and overexploitation. -. In:
- 2008. The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). Evolution & Diversity of Life. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 1-56159-274-9.
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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