Daisuke Goto

My principal scientific interest and experience focus on understanding fisheries sustainability in an ecosystem context as part of renewable natural resource conservation and management programs. I have been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary projects that aim to quantitatively assess how natural and human-induced stressors may interactively modulate harvested fish population dynamics and influence policy decision-making. Examples include interactions between species invasion & eutrophication, chemical pollution & hydrological alteration, and climate variability & harvesting on the sustainability of pelagic and demersal species exploited by commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries. 

My recent work entails statistical and mathematical modeling to assess spatial and temporal dynamics of exploited marine fish stocks and evaluate management strategies by integrating large-scale monitoring survey data with population, food web, and ecosystem dynamics models (spatially explicit individual-based models, State-space Assessment Model, Ecopath with Ecosim, etc.).

• Multispecies management strategy evaluation for marine fisheries management
• Management strategy evaluation for bias in marine fisheries stock assessment
• Ecosystem approach to assessing variable fish stocks in the Barents Sea
• Food-web mediated regime shifts in fishery-ecosystem dynamics in an invaded lake
• Ecogenetic modeling of fish diurnal vertical movement 
• Historical ecology and fishing down the lake food web
• Recruitment success of migratory predators driven by spatially dynamic seasonal cues
• Declining trends in fish biomass production and fisheries sustainability
• Regional drivers of long-term trends in harvested fish growth
• Hydrological alteration and recruitment dynamics of sturgeon in the Missouri River
• Larval fish dispersal and recruitment dynamics in Lake Michigan
• EcoFore–Forecasting the causes, consequences and remedies for hypoxia in Lake Erie
• Urban coastal food web ecology and pollutant trophic transfer to predators
• More on my research

• REDUS-Reduced Uncertainty in Stock Assessment
• The third Workshop on Guidelines for Management Strategy Evaluations
• Workshop on Guidelines for Management Strategy Evaluations
• Workshop on North Sea Stocks Management Strategy Evaluation
• Workshop on the evaluation of harvest control rules for Sebastes mentella in ICES areas 1 and 2

• Research Fellow. Havforskningsinstituttet. Bergen, Norge
• Research Fellow. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto. Ontario, Canada
• Research Associate. Center of Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Wisconsin, USA
• Research Associate. School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nebraska, USA
• Research Associate. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University. Indiana, USA
• Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior. The Graduate School of University Center, the City University of New York. New York, USA
• B.S. in Biology. Department of Biological Sciences, DePaul University. Chicago, Illinois, USA

• Goto, D., J.A. Devine, I. Umar, S.H. Fischer, J.A.A. De Oliveira, D. Howell, E. Jardim, I. Mosqueira, and K. Ono. 2021. Shaping sustainable harvest boundaries for marine populations despite estimation bias. Ecosphere. In press. code
• Goto, D., A.A. Filin, D. Howell, B. Bogstad, Y. Kovalev, and H. Gjøsæter. 2021. Tradeoffs of managing cod as a sustainable resource in fluctuating environments. Ecological Applications. In press.
• Goto, D., E.S. Dunlop, J.D. Young, and D.A. Jackson. 2020. Shifting trophic control of fishery–ecosystem dynamics following biological invasions. Ecological Applications. 30(8): e02190.
• Goto, D., M. Hamel, J. Hammen, M. Rugg, M.A. Pegg, and V.E. Forbes. 2020. Divergent density feedback control of migratory predator recovery following sex-biased perturbations. Ecology and Evolution. 10(9): 3954-3967.
• Dunlop, E.S., D. Goto, and D.A. Jackson. 2019. Fishing down then up the food web of an invaded lake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116(40): 19995–20001.
• Hrycik, A.R. P.D. Collingsworth, T. Sesterhenn, D. Goto, and T.O. Höök. 2019. Movement rule selection through eco-genetic modeling: Application to diurnal vertical movement. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 478: 128–138.
• Rypel, A.L., D. Goto, G.G. Sass, and M.J. Vander Zanden. 2018. Eroding productivity of walleye populations in northern Wisconsin lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 75(12): 2291–2301.
• Goto, D., M. Hamel, J. Hammen, M. Rugg, M.A. Pegg, and V.E. Forbes. 2018. Spatially dynamic maternal control of migratory fish recruitment pulses triggered by shifting seasonal cues. Marine and Freshwater Research. 69(6): 942–961.
• Pedersen, E.J., D. Goto, J. W. Gaeta, G.J.A. Hansen, G.G. Sass, M.J. Vander Zanden, T.A. Cichosz, A.L. Rypel. 2018. Long-term growth trends in northern Wisconsin walleye populations under changing biotic and abiotic conditions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 75(5): 733–745.
• Goto, D., J.J. Roberts, S.A. Pothoven, S.A. Ludsin, H.A. Vanderploeg, S.B. Brandt, and T.O. Höök. Size-mediated control of perch–midge coupling in Lake Erie transient dead zones. 2017. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 100(12): 1587–1600.
• Rypel, A. L., D. Goto, G. G. Sass, M. J. Vander Zanden. 2015. Production rates of walleye and their relationship to exploitation in Escanaba Lake, Wisconsin, 1965– 2009. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 72(6): 834-844.
• Goto, D., M.J. Hamel, J.J. Hammen, M.L. Rugg, M.A. Pegg, and V.E. Forbes. 2015. Spatiotemporal variation in flow-dependent recruitment of long-lived riverine fish: Model development and evaluation. Ecological Modelling. 296: 79–92.
• Scavia, D., J.D. Allan, K.K. Arend, S. Bartell, D. Beletsky, N.S. Bosch, S.B. Brandt, R.D. Briland, I. Daloğlu, J.V. DePinto, D.M. Dolan, M.A. Evans, T.M. Farmer, D. Goto, H. Han, T.O. Höök, R. Knight, S.A. Ludsin, D. Mason, A.M. Michalak, R.P. Richards, J.J. Roberts, D.K. Rucinski, E. Rutherford, D.J. Schwab, T. Sesterhenn, H Zhang, and Y. Zhou. 2014. Assessing and addressing the re-eutrophication of Lake Erie: Central Basin Hypoxia. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 40 (2): 226–246.
• Goto, D., K. Lindelof, D. Fanslow, S.A. Ludsin, J.J. Roberts, S.A. Pothoven, H. Vanderploeg, A.E. Wilson, and T.O. Höök. 2012. Indirect consequences of hypolimentic hypoxia on zooplankton growth in a large eutrophic lake. Aquatic Biology. 16 (3): 217–227.
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2011. Altered feeding habits and strategies of a benthic forage fish (Fundulus heteroclitus) in chronically polluted tidal salt marshes. Marine Environmental Research. 72 (1-2): 75–88
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2010. Bioenergetic responses of a benthic forage fish (Fundulus heteroclitus) to habitat degradation and altered prey community in polluted salt marshes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 67 (10): 1566–1584.
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2010. Relative importance of multiple environmental variables in structuring benthic macroinfaunal assemblages in chronically metal-polluted salt marshes. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 60 (3): 363–375
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2010. Metal intracellular partitioning as a detoxification mechanism for mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) in urban tidal salt marshes. Marine Environmental Research. 69 (3): 163–171.
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2009. Biodiversity loss in benthic macroinfaunal communities and its consequence for organic mercury trophic availability to benthivorous predators in the lower Hudson River estuary, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 58 (12): 1909–1915
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2009. Relevance of intracellular partitioning of metals in prey to differential metal bioaccumulation among populations of mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus). Marine Environmental Research. 68 (5): 257–267
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2009. Influences of prey- and predator- dependent processes on cadmium and methylmercury trophic transfer to mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 66 (5): 836–846
• Wallace, W.G., D. Goto, and D.R. Seebough. 2008. Metal assimilation results from the interaction of prey- and predator-dependent processes. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management. 4 (3): 375–377
• Goto, D. and W.G. Wallace. 2007. Interaction of Cd and Zn during uptake and loss in the polychaete Capitella capitata: Whole body and subcellular perspectives. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 352 (1): 65–77
• Seebough, D.R., D. Goto, and W.G. Wallace. 2005. Bioenhancement of cadmium transfer along a multi-level food chain. Marine Environmental Research. 59 (5): 473–491.

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• Ecologists find strong evidence of fishing down the food web in freshwater lake
• Researchers document walleye decline in Wisconsin waters
• Study Confirms Walleye Populations Are In Decline
• Heavy Metal in the Food Chain