Team

Christopher T. Monk

PostDoc

Research focus

Understanding the consequences of fish and fisher behaviour for fisheries management using theory and reality mining

Curriculum vitae

Since 2018

  • Post-Doc: Reality-mining fish-fisher interactions

2013 - 2018

    • Researcher in Btypes group at IGB berlin studying ecological and evolutionary consequences of fish behavioral types.
    • PhD student in the Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Berlin

      2011-2013

      • M.Sc. in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida

      2007-2011

      • B.Sc. (Hons)  Biology Major, Environmental Studies Minor at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario

       

      Three important scientific discoveries and associated papers

      Monk, C.T., Arlinghaus, R. (2016) Fish-angler interactions result in selection on behavioural traits independent of angler skill: a reality-minig experiment at a whole-ecosystem scale. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. In Review

      Monk, C.T., Arlinghaus, R. (2016) Encountering a bait is necessary but insufficient to explain individual variability in vulnerability to angling in two freshwater benthivorous fish in the wild. PloS ONE, In Review

      Arlinghaus, R., Alós, J., Klefoth, T., Laskowski, K., Monk, C.T., Nakayama, S., Schröder, A. (2016) Passive gear-induced timidity syndrome in wild fish populations and its potential ecological and managerial implications. Fish and Fisheries, DOI: 10.1111/faf.12176