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Bakun, A (2006) Wasp-waist populations and marine ecosystem dynamics: navigating the “predator pit” topographies. Progress in Oceanography 68: 271-288.

Pauly, D., J. Alder, (“Coordinating Lead Authors”), A. Bakun,  S. Heileman, K.-H. Kock, P. Mace, W. Perrin, K. Stergiou, U. R. Sumaila, M. Verrios, K. Freire and Y. Sadovy (“Lead Authors”), V. Christensen, K. Kaschner, M.-L. Palomares, P. Tyedmers, C. Wabnitz, R. Watson,and B. Worm (“Contributing Lead Authors”) (2005) Chapter 18: Marine Fisheries Systems. pp. 477-511. In: Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

Bakun, A. (2005) Regime Shifts, Ch. 25, pp. 971-1026 in The Sea, vol.13, Robinson, A.R.  & Brink, K. (eds.) Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bakun, A. (2005) Seeking an expanded suite of management tools: implications of rapidly-evolving adaptive response mechanisms (e.g., “school-mix feedback”). Bulletin of Marine Science76: 463-483.

E. K. Pikitch, C. Santora, E. A. Babcock, A. Bakun, R. Bonfil, D. O. Conover, P. Dayton, P. Doukakis, D. Fluharty, B. Heneman, E. D. Houde, P. A. Livingston, M. Mangel, M. K. McAllister, J. Pope, and K. J. Sainsbury. 2004. Response. Science 306: 1892.

E. K. Pikitch, C. Santora, E. A. Babcock, A. Bakun, R. Bonfil, D. O. Conover, P. Dayton, P. Doukakis, D. Fluharty, B. Heneman, E. D. Houde, J. Link, P. A. Livingston, M. Mangel, M. K. McAllister, J. Pope, and K. J. Sainsbury. 2004. Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management. Science 305: 346-347.

Bakun, A. and S.J. Weeks. 2004. Greenhouse gas buildup, sardines, submarine eruptions, and the possibility of abrupt degradation of intense marine upwelling ecosystems. Ecology Letters 7: 1015-1023.

Weeks S.J., B. Currie, A. Bakun and K.R. Peard. 2004. Hydrogen sulphide eruptions in the Atlantic Ocean off southern Africa: Implications of a new view based on SeaWiFS satellite imagery. Deep-Sea Research I . 51: 153-172.

Bakun, A. 2003. Potential relevance of a “loopholes” conceptual framework to research studies of fish population dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea. pp. 23-29 in F. Briand (ed.) Mediterranean Biological Time Series, CIESM Monographs 22, (Monaco).

Bakun, A., and K. Broad. 2003. Environmental loopholes and fish population dynamics: comparative pattern recognition with particular focus on El Ni-o effects in the Pacific. Fisheries Oceanography 12: 458-473.

Weeks, S.J., B. Currie and A. Bakun. 2002. Massive emissions of toxic gas in the Atlantic. Nature 415: 493-494.

Agostini, V.N. and A. Bakun. 2002. "Ocean Triads" in the Mediterranean Sea: Physical mechanisms potentially structuring reproductive habitat suitability (example application to European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus). Fisheries Oceanography11: 129-142.

Bakun, A.. and Broad, K. (eds.) 2002. Climate and Fisheries: Interacting Paradigms, Scales and Policy Approaches. International Research Institute for Climate Prediction. Columbia University. Palisades, New York. 67 pp.

Bakun, A. and K. Broad 2002. The IRI-IPRC Pacific Climate-Fisheries Workshop. Fisheries Oceanography11: 189-190.

Bakun A. 2002. An empirical test for the existence of a generation-time-dependent mechanism for rapid adaptive response of fish populations to variations in ocean climate, predation or fishery exploitation. pp.. In: C.D. Van der Lingen, C. Roy, P. Fréon, M. Barange, L. Castro, L. Gutierrez, L. Nykjaer and F. Shillington (eds.) Report of a GLOBEC-SPACC/IDYLE/ENVIFISH workshop on spatial approaches to the dynamics of coastal pelagic resources and their environment in upwelling areas. GLOBEC Report 16.

Bakun, A. 2001. ‘School-mix feedback’: a different way to think about low frequency variability in large mobile fish populations. Progress in Oceanography 49: 485-511.

Bakun, A. and V. N. Agostini. 2001. Seasonal patterns of wind-driven upwelling/downwelling in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina 65: 243-257.

Cury P., A. Bakun, R.J.M. Crawford, A Jarre-Teichmann, R. A. Qui-ones, L.J. Shannon, H. M. Verheye. 2000. Small pelagics in upwelling systems: patterns of interaction and structural changes in “wasp-waist” ecosystems. ICES Journal of Marine Sciience57: 603-618.

Bakun, A. 1999. A dynamical scenario for simultaneous "regime-scale" marine population shifts in widely separated large marine ecosystems of the Pacific. pp. 2-26. In: K. Sherman and Q. Tang (eds.) Large Marine Ecosystems of the Pacific Rim: Assessment, Sustainability and Management.  Blackwell Science Inc. Malden, Massachusetts. 465 pp.

Bakun, A. and P. Cury. 1999. The "school trap": a mechanism promoting large-amplitude out-of-phase population oscillations of small pelagic fish species. Ecology Letters 2: 349-351.

Bakun, A., J. Csirke, D. Lluch-Belda and R. Steer-Ruiz. 1999. The Pacific Central American Coastal LME. pp. 268-280. In: K. Sherman and Q. Tang (eds.) Large Marine Ecosystems of the Pacific Rim: Assessment, Sustainability and Management.  Blackwell Science Inc. Malden, Massachusetts. 465 pp.

Schwartzlose, R.A., J. Alheit, A.Bakun, T. Baumgartner, R. Cloete, R.J.M.Crawford, W.J. Fletcher, Y. Green-Ruiz, E. Hagen, T. Kawasaki, D. Lluch-Belda, S.E. Lluch-Cota, A.D.MacCall, Y.Matsuura, M.O. Nevares-Martinez, R.H.Parrish,C. Roy, R.Serra,K.V. Shust, N.M.Ward and J.Z. Zuzunaga. 1999. Worldwide large-scale fluctuations of sardine and anchovy populations. South African Journal of Marine Sience21: 289-347.

Bakun, A . 1998. The CEOS comparative analysis framework: Motivations and perceived opportunities. pp. 7-23. In:  M.-H. Durand, et al.  (eds.) Global versus localchanges in upwelling systems. ORSTOM editions, Paris.

Bakun, A . 1998. Ocean Triads and Radical Interdecadal Stock Variability: Bane and Boon for Fishery Management Science. pp. 331-358. In: T.J. Pitcher, P.J.B. Hart and D. Pauly (eds.) Reinventing Fisheries Management. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Bakun, A., and J. Csirke. 1998. Chapter 6 - Environmental processes and recruitment variability. pp. 105-124. In: P.G. Rodehouse, E.G. Dawe,  and R.K. O'Dor (eds.) Squid Recruitment Dynamics: Influences on Variability Within The Genus Illex. as a Model, the Commercial llex. Species and Influences on Variability. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper #376.

Bakun, A., C. Roy and S. Lluch-Cota. 1998. Coastal upwelling and other processes regulating ecosystem productivity and fish production in the western Indian Ocean. pp. 103-141. In: E. Okemwa, M. Ntiba, and K. Sherman (eds.) Large Marine Ecosystems of the Indian Ocean: Assessment, Sustainability, and Management.  Blackwell Science Inc. Malden,  Massachusetts.

Bakun, A ., P.Cury, M.-H. Durand, R. Mendelssohn, D. Pauly and C. Roy. 1998. CEOS: an international network working on climate and fisheries. pp. 1-5. In:  M.-H. Durand, et al.  (eds.) Global versus localchanges in upwelling systems. ORSTOM editions, Paris.

Durand, M.-H., P.Cury, R.Mendelssohn, C.Roy, A.Bakun and D.Pauly  (eds.) 1998. Global versus localchanges in upwelling systems. ORSTOM editions, Paris. 594 pp.

Bakun, A. 1997. Northwest Pacific. pp.74-78. In: Review of the State of World Fishery Resources: Marine Fisheries. FAO Fisheries Circular  920. FAO, Rome.

Bakun, A. 1997. Northeast Pacific. pp.79-83. In: Review of the State of World Fishery Resources: Marine Fisheries. FAO Fisheries Circular 920. FAO, Rome.

Bakun, A. 1997. Global synchrony in fish population variations. pp. 134-135. In: Review of the State of World Fishery Resources: Marine Fisheries. FAO Fish. Circular920. FAO, Rome.

Hopkins, C.C.E., A. Bakun, M.N. Bruton, G. Hemple and J. Hunter. 1997. Benguela Ecology Programme Phase III. Evaluation Panel Report. FRD Programme Report Series 31. Foundation for Research Development. Pretoria, South Africa.15pp.

Bakun, A. 1996. Patterns in the Ocean: Ocean Processes and Marine Population Dynamics. University of California Sea Grant, San Diego, California, USA, in cooperation with Centro de Investigaciones Biol-gicas de Noroeste, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. 323 pp.

Bakun, A. 1996. New concepts for understanding variability in small pelagic fisheries, Appendix 8 (p.1-9). In T. Do Chi and D.A. Kiefer (eds.) Report of the Workshop on the Coastal pelagic Resources of the Upwelling System off Northwest Africa: Research and predictions. FI:TCP/MOR/4556(A) Field Document 1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

Bakun, A. 1996. Chapter 5. Conclusions. pp. 12-16. In T. Do Chi and D.A. Kiefer (eds.) Report of the Workshop on the Coastal pelagic Resources of the Upwelling System off Northwest Africa: Research and predictions. FI:TCP/MOR/4556(A) Field Document 1. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.

Bakun, A. 1996. Climate variability and regime shifts in eastern boundary upwelling current systems. pp. 14-26. In: M.J. O'Toole (ed.) The Benguela Current and Comparable Eastern Boundary Upwelling Ecosystems. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Techhnische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH. Eschborn, Germany .

Caddy, J.F. and A. Bakun. 1995. Marine catchment basins and anthropogenic effects on coastal fishery ecosystems. p. 119-133. In: Effects of riverine inputs on coastal ecosystems and fisheries resources. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper #349. FAO, Rome.

Bakun, A. 1995. Global climate variations and potential impacts on the Gulf of Guinea sardinella fishery. pp. 60 -84. In: F.X. Bard and K.A. Korentang (eds.) Dynamics and Use of Sardinella Resources from Upwelling off Ghana and Ivory Coast. ORSTOM Editions. Paris. 438 pp.

Bakun, A. 1995. A dynamical scenario for simultaneous "regime-scale" marine population shifts in widely separated LMEs of the Pacific. pp. 47-72. In K. Sherman and Q. Tang (eds.) The Large Marine Ecosystems of the Pacific Rim. IUCN, The World Conservation Union, Gland, Switzerland. 168 pp.

Cury, P., C. Roy, R. Mendelssohn, A. Bakun, D.M. Husby, and R.H. Parrish. 1995.  Moderate is better: nonlinear climatic effect on California anchovy (Engraulis mordax). pp. 417-424. In: R.J. Beamish (ed.). Climate Change and Northern Fish Populations. Canadian Special Publication in Fisheries and Aquatic Science 121: 739 pp.

Caddy, J.F. and A. Bakun. 1994. A tentative classification of coastal marine ecosystems based on dominant processes of nutrient supply. Ocean and Coastal Management, 23: 201-211.

Bakun, A. 1993. The California Current, Benguela Current, and Southwestern Atlantic Shelf Ecosystems: A comparative approach to identifying factors regulating biomass yields. p. 199-224. In  Large Marine Ecosystems -Stress, Mitigation, and Sustainability. K. Sherman, L. M. Alexander, and B. Gold (eds.). American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Fraga, S., and A. Bakun. 1993. Climate change and harmful algal blooms: The example of Gymnodinium catenatum on the Galician Coast. pp. 59-65. In: T.J. Smayda abd Y. Shimizu (eds.) Toxic Phytoplankton Blooms in the Sea. Elsevier Science Publishers, New York.

Bakun, A., V. Christensen, C. Curtis, P. Cury, M.H. Durand, D. Husby, R. Mendelssohn, J. Mendo, R. Parrish, D. Pauly, and C. Roy. 1993, The Climate and Eastern Ocean Systems project. Naga, The ICLARM Quarterly 15(4): 26-30.

Bakun, A. 1992. Global greenhouse effects, multi-decadal wind trends and potential impacts on coastal pelagic fish populations.  ICES Marine Science Symposia 195: 316-325.

Bakun, A. and C.S. Nelson. 1991. Wind stress curl in subtropical eastern boundary current regions. Journal of Physical Oceanography  21: 1815-1834.

Bakun, A. and R.H. Parrish. 1991. Comparative studies of coastal pelagic fish reproductive habitats: the anchovy (Engraulis anchoita) of the southwestern Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Sciience 48: 343 -361.

Bakun, A. 1990. Global climate change and intensification of coastal ocean upwelling. Science, 247: 198-201.

Bakun, A. and R.H. Parrish. 1990. Comparative studies of coastal pelagic fish reproductive habitats: the Brazilian sardine (Sardinella aunta). J. Cons. Explor. Mer. 46: 269-283.

Bakun, A. 1989. Mechanisms for density-dependent growth of anchoveta: alternatives to impact on the regional-scale food supply. pp. 235-243. In D. Pauly, P. Muck, J. Mendo and 1. Tsukayama (eds.).The Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem: Dynamics and Interactions. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Manila. 438 pp.

Bakun, A. and R. Mendelssohn. 1989. Alongshore wind stress 1953-82: correction, reconciliation and update through 1986. pp. 77-81. In: D. Pauly, P. Muck, J. Mendo and I. Tsukayama (eds.). The Peruvian Upwelling Ecosystem: Dynamics and Interactions. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Manila. 438 pp.

Bakun, A. 1989. L'ocean et la variabilité des populations marines. pp. 155-187. In: J.P. Troadec (ed.), L'Homme et les Écosystems Halieutiques. Institut Franais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), Paris.

Bakun, A. 1989. Recruitment in fishery resources and its relation to environment: Accessible pathways to greater insight. pp. 25-34. In: Memorias del Simposio International de los Recursos Vivos y las Pesquerias en el Pacifico Sudeste, Viña del Mar, Chile, 9-13 mayo, 1988. Rev, Pacifico Sur (Número Especial). Comision Permanente del Pacifico Sur (CPPS).

Bakun, A. 1987. Monthly variability in the ocean habitat off Peru as deduced from maritime observations, 1953-84. pp. 46-74. In: D. Pauly and I. Tsukayama (eds.) The Peruvian Anchoveta and Its Upwelling Ecosystem: Three Decades of Change. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Manila. 351pp.

Bakun, A. 1986. Local retention of planktonic early life stages in tropical reef/bank demersal systems: the role of vertically-structured hydrodynamic processes. pp. 15-32. In: D.Pauly and A. Ya-ez-Arancibia (eds.) IOC/FAO Workshop on Recruitment in Tropical Coastal Demersal Communities. IOC Workshop Report 40 (Supplement). UNESCO, Paris. 323pp.

Bakun, A. 1986. Definition of environmental variability affecting biological processes in large marine ecosystems. pp 89-108. In: K.Sherman and L.M.Alexander (eds.) Variability and Management of large Marine Ecosystems. AAAS Selected Symposium 99. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Wash., D.C. 319 pp.

Mason, J.E., and A. Bakun. 1986. Upwelling index update, U.S. West Coast, 33°N - 48°N latitude. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SWFC-67. 81pp.

Bakun, A. 1985. Comparative studies and the recruitment problem: Searching for generalizations. CalCOFI Reports 26: 30-40.

Bakun, A. 1984. Report of the Working Group on Environmental Studies and Monitoring. pp. 41-54. In: G.D. Sharp and J. Csirke (eds.) Reports of the Expert Consultation to Examine Changes in Abundance and Species Composition of Neritic Fish Resources. FAO Fisheries Report #291(1). 102pp.

Parrish, R.H., A. Bakun, D.M. Husby, and C.S. Nelson. 1983. Comparative climatology of selected environmental processes in relation to eastern boundary current pelagic fish reproduction. pp. 731-778. In: G.D. Sharp and J. Csirke (eds.) Proceedings of the Expert Consultation to Examine Changes in Abundance and Species Composition of Neritic Fish Resources. FAO Fisheries Report #291 (2,3).1224pp.

Bakun, A. and R.H. Parrish. 1982. Turbulence, transport, and pelagic fish in the Califomia and Peru Current systems. CalCOFI Reports 23: 99-112.

Bakun, A., J. Beyer, D. Pauly, J.G. Pope, and G.D. Sharp. 1982. Ocean sciences in relation to living resources. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 39:1059-1070.

Parrish, R.H., C.S. Nelson, and A. Bakun. 1981. Transport mechanisms and reproductive success of fishes in the California Current. Biological Oceanography 1: 175-203.

Bakun, A., and R.H. Parrish. 1980. Environmental inputs to fishery population models for eastern boundary current regions. pp. 67-104. In: G.D. Sharp (ed.) Workshop on the Effects of Environmental Variation on the survival of Larval Pelagic Fishes, Lima, Peru, 20 Apr. - 5 May, 1980. IOC Workshop Report #28: 323pp.

Bakun, A., C.S. Nelson, and R.H. Parrish. 1979. Determination of surface drift patterns affecting fish stocks in the Califomia Current upwelling region. pp. 7-21. In: Papers Submitted to the Joint IOC/WMO Seminar on Oceanographic Products and the IGOSS Data Processing and Services System, IOC Workshop Report#17, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO, Paris. 572pp.

Bakun, A. 1978. Coastal upwelling off western North America, 1975. pp. 141-149. In: Ocean Variability: Effects on U.S. Marine Fishery Resources - 1975, U.S. Dept. of Commerce NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circular #416. 350pp.

Bakun, A. 1978. Guinea Current upwelling. Nature 271: 147-150.

Seckel, G.R., A. Bakun, and R.H. Parrish. 1978. Large-scale atmospheric circulation and the west coast upwelling regime in 1976/77 and 1977/1978. Ch.7, pp. 1-12. In: Proceedings of the Third Annual Climate Diagnostics Workshop, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Wash., D.C.

Bakun, A. and C.S. Nelson. 1977. Climatology of upwelling related processes off Baja California. CalCOFI Reports 19: 107-127.

Wooster, W.S., A. Bakun, and D.R. McLain. 1976. The seasonal upwelling cycle along the eastem boundary of the North Atlantic. Journal of Marine Research 34:131-141.

Ingraham, W.J., A. Bakun, and F. Favorite. 1976. The physical oceanography of the Gulf of Alaska. pp. 789-922. In: Environmental Assessment of the Alaskan Continental Shelf, 11. Environmental Research Laboratories, Boulder, CO.

Bakun, A. 1976. Coastal upwelling off western North America, 1974. pp. 12.1-12.6. In: The Environment ot the United States Living Marine Resources, 1974. MARMAP Contribution No. 104, U.S. Dept. Commerce.

Bakun, A. 1975. Daily and weekly upwelling indices, west coast of North America, 1967-73. U.S. Dept. of Commerce NOAA Technical Report NMFS Special Scientific Report, Fisheries #693. 114pp.

Walsh, J.J., and A. Bakun. 1975. Species and productivity transients in an upwelling ocean. pp. 8-17. In: The Biological Significance of Species Transients in Natural Resource Systems. The Institute of Ecology, Univ. Wisconsin, Madison.

Bakun, A., D.R. McLain, and F.V. Mayo. 1974. The mean annual cycle of coastal upwelling off western North America as observed from surface measurements. Fisheries Bulletin 72: 843-844.

Bakun, A. 1973. Coastal upwelling indices, west coast of North America, 1946-71. U.S. Dept. of Commerce NOAA Technical Report NMFS Special Scientific Report, Fisheries#671. 103pp.

Favorite, F., A. Bakun, and W.B. McAlister. 1971. Oceanography. International North Pacific Fisheries Commission Annual Report - 1969:1 02-108.

Ryther, J.H., J.R. Hall, A.K. Pease, A. Bakun, and M.M. Jones. 1966. Primary organic production in relation to the chemistry and hydrography of the western Indian Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography 11: 371-380.