inst/ms/discussion-summary.md

In seananderson/metafolio: Metapopulation Simulations for Conserving Salmon Through Portfolio Optimization

Current structure

1. opening paragraph summarizing our findings

Salmon

1. our results emphasize need to maintain response diversity for salmon (DONE rework opening sentence of this paragraph to emphasize this as the topic)

2. existing salmon management goals relate to this

3. TODO add paragraph emphasizing that theory is not meeting practice

4. how we complement other salmon models

Broader

1. emphasize thinking at portfolio level (with risk and return axes) for conservation decisions

2. TODO build in spatial planning here? maybe also bring in spatial planning that can promote asynchrony/response diversity

3. extensions of our model (TODO replace most salmon examples) (TODO emphasize the advantage we bring with multi-population modelling) (TODO add some predictions) (TODO add utility for spatial planning and Ando et al.)

4. broad research priorities our results suggest (TODO replace most salmon examples)

5. concluding paragraph (TODO rework this to come back to opening paragraph, see notes)

TODO

1. In general, decrease focus on salmon (in general, little need to cut from salmon section, but substitute non-salmon examples in non-salmon section and expand 2nd section that moves beyond salmon).

2. Add paragraph on ecological conditions and management actions that increase diversity of response to environmental conditions.

3. Build in spatial planning for climate change and Ando et al. 2012.

4. Emphasize disconnect between theory of salmon management and practice (with examples from US).

5. Consider moving some VSP rules of thumb to introduction.

6. Include a bit about what including multi-population modelling (as opposed to, say, Shiraz) means.

7. Build on concrete extensions and applications of our work.

   a. Predict what it would tell us about PDO b. Use to inform protected area design (Ando...)

8. Add discussion of how low abundance (and straying) could erode response diversity.

9. Build new final paragraph, which answers main questions we start in the introduction: a. What do we add to the problem of "Untangling the mechanisms that underpin the stability of ecological systems"? b. What role does response diversity have to play, and how have we shown that a focus on metapopulations is important? c. What does this work suggest about what work is critical given uncertainty and risk due to environmental change and ecological reactions to that change

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