Student
William Cheung
Name: William Cheung
Email: w.cheung@fisheries.ubc.ca
Assistant Professor (National Geographic Fellow)
Program: PhD
Thesis: Vulnerability of Marine Fishes to Fishing: from Global Overview to the Northern South China Sea
Supervisor: Tony Pitcher
Degree Held: BSc (HKU), MPhil (HKU), PhD (UBC)
Biography
William is an Assistant Professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre since 2011. William obtained a BSc. (Biology) in 1998, and subsequently a M.Phil. in 2001 from the University of Hong Kong. After working in WWF Hong Kong for two years, he moved to Vancouver and completed his PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies in the UBC Fisheries Centre in 2007. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Sea Around Us project for two years. From 2009 to 2011, he was Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Services in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia in the UK.
Currently, his main research area is on assessing impacts of fishing and climate change on marine ecosystems and their goods and services, and studying ways to reconcile trade-offs in their management. Specifically, he develops empirical and numerical simulation models to examine the impacts of climate change on marine biodiversity and fisheries, globally and in various regional seas. He applies interdisciplinary approaches to evaluate the trade-offs between ecological, economic and social objectives in managing coastal social-ecological systems. Moreover, his research involves the development and application of original approaches to study historical changes in fish stocks and ecosystems. He works on various interdisciplinary research projects with global collaboration networks in the U.K., China, Australia, Africa, USA and Canada. He has been a member of the IUCN Groupers and Wrasses Species Specialist Group since 2005 and serves on the editorial board of Fish and Fisheries and International Journal of Sustainable Society.
Graduate Students
Name | Thesis topic | Degree (Year) |
Socio-economic implications of marine climate change in the U.K. | PhD (2010-2013 expected) | |
Climate change and fisheries in the North Sea: a long-term perspective | PhD (2010-2013 expected) | |
Perceptions of fishermen towards MPAs in the Philippines | PhD (2009-2012 expected) | |
Bridging the gap in a climate changed World: Is conservation planning by taxa a realistic aim? | PhD (2009-2012 expected) | |
Investigation of the socio-economic value of the marine ecosystem service of gas and climate regulation | PhD (2010-2013, expected) |
See Dr. Cheung's CV.
See Dr. Cheung's Fisheries Centre Faculty profile.
Selected Publications
Climate change impacts on marine biodiversity and fisheries
Cheung, W. W. L., J. Dunne, J. L. Sarmiento and D. Pauly (in press) Integrating eco-physiology and plankton dynamics into projected changes in maximum fisheries catch potential under climate change in the Northeast Atlantic. ICES Journal of Marine Science 68: 1008-1018.
Pereira, H.M., P. W. Leadley, V. Proença, R. Alkemade, J. P. W. Scharlemann, J. F. Fernandez-Manjarrés, M. B. Araújo, P. Balvanera, R. Biggs, R., W. W. L. Cheung, L. Chini, H. D. Cooper, E. L. Gilman, S. Guénette, G. C. Hurtt, H. P. Huntington, G. M. Mace, T. Oberdorff, C. Revenga, P. Rodrigues, R. J. Scholes, U. R. Sumaila, M. Walpole (2010). Scenarios for global biodiversity in the 21st Century. Science 330: 1496-1501.
Sumaila, U.R. and W. W. L. Cheung (2010). Cost of adapting fisheries to climate change. World Bank Discussion Paper Number 5. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. Washington, DC, U.S.A. Download pdf
Cheung, W. W. L., V. W. Y. Lam, J. L. Sarmiento, K. Kearney, R. Watson, D. Zeller, and D. Pauly (2010) Large-scale redistribution of maximum catch potential in the global ocean under climate change. Global Change Biology 16: 24-35. Download pdf
Cheung, W. W. L., C. Close, K. Kearney ,V. Lam, J. Sarmiento, R. Watson and D. Pauly (2009). Projections of global marine biodiversity impacts under climate change scenarios. Fish and Fisheries 10: 235-251. Download pdf
Cheung, W. W. L., C. Close, V. W. Y. Lam, R. Watson and D. Pauly (2008). Application of macroecological theory to predict effects of climate change on global fisheries potential. Marine Ecology Progress Series 365: 187-197. Download pdf
Cheung, W. W. L., V. Lam, and D. Pauly (2008) (eds.). Modelling Present and Climate-shifted Distributions of Marine Fishes and Invertebrates. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 16(3). Download pdf
Reconciling fisheries management with conservation
Srinivasan, U. T., W. W. L. Cheung, R. Watson, and U. R. Sumaila (2010). Food security implications of the Global Potential Catch Losses due to Overfishing. Journal of Bioeconomics 12(3): 183-200. Download pdf
Teh, L., W. W. L. Cheung, R. Sumaila, A. Cornish and C. Chu (2008). Alternative livelihoods for Hong Kong’s fishers. International Journal of Social Economics 35: 380-395. Download pdf
Cheung, W. W. L. and T. J. Pitcher (2008). Evaluating the status of exploited taxa in the northern South China Sea using intrinsic vulnerability and spatially explicit catch-per-unit-effort data. Fisheries Research 92: 28-40. Download pdf
Cheung, W. W. L. and U. R. Sumaila (2008). Trade-offs between conservation and socio-economic objectives in managing a tropical marine ecosystem. Ecological Economics 66: 193-210. Download pdf
Cheung W. W. L., R. Watson, T. Morato, T. J. Pitcher and D. Pauly (2007). Intrinsic vulnerability in the global fish catch. Marine Ecology Progress Series 333: 1-12. Download pdf
Morato T., W. W. L. Cheung and T. J. Pitcher (2006). Vulnerability of seamount fish to fishing: fuzzy analysis of life-history attributes. Journal of Fish Biology 67:1-13. Download pdf
Cheung W. W. L., T. J. Pitcher and D. Pauly (2005). A fuzzy logic expert system to estimate intrinsic extinction vulnerability of marine fishes to fishing. Biological Conservation 124: 97-111. Download pdf
Cheung W. W. L. and Y. Sadovy (2004). Retrospective evaluation of data-limited fisheries: a case from Hong Kong. Review in Fish Biology and Fisheries 14: 181-206. Download pdf
Sadovy Y. and W. L. Cheung (2003). Near extinction of a highly fecund fish: the one that nearly got away. Fish and Fisheries 4: 86-99. Download pdf
