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William Cheung

ResearcherInstitute for the Oceans and FisheriesUniversity of British Columbia

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William Cheung

Researcher

Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries

Natural Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2025.
Principal investigator on 10 research grants (8 NSERC, 2 CIHR), most recently in 2024.

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Research

Fisheries Global change Ocean Sustainability Climate impact and adaptation Climate solutions Scenarios and modelling Interdisciplinary studies

Latest papers

US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy.
Nature ecology & evolution · 2025
Reply to: Global effects of marine protected areas on food security are unknown.
Nature · 2023
Reply to: Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling.
Nature · 2023

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Fish and fisheries under marine extremes and compound events: responses, resilience and solution options
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
$85,000
Ocean Sustainability and Global Change
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$200,000
Developing adaptation strategies for healthy fisheries and food security for First Nations in British Columbia under climate change
CIHR · 2019 · Principal investigator
$1,526,176

All 15 grants and awards

13 publications.

US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy.

Gattuso JP, Houllier F, Adams J, Amon D, Bambridge T, Cheung W, Chiba S, Cortés J, Duarte CM, Frölicher T, Gelcich S, Gjerde K, Greaves D, Haugan PM, Li D, Tuda A

Nature ecology & evolution2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-025-02750-3 PMID: 40437205

Reply to: Global effects of marine protected areas on food security are unknown.

Sala E, Mayorga J, Bradley D, Cabral RB, Atwood TB, Auber A, Cheung W, Costello C, Ferretti F, Friedlander AM, Gaines SD, Garilao C, Goodell W, Halpern BS, Hinson A, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Leprieur F, Lubchenco J, McGowan J, Morgan LE, Mouillot D, Palacios-Abrantes J, Possingham HP, Rechberger KD, Worm B

Nature2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06494-7 PMID: 37730867

Reply to: Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling.

Atwood TB, Sala E, Mayorga J, Bradley D, Cabral RB, Auber A, Cheung W, Ferretti F, Friedlander AM, Gaines SD, Garilao C, Goodell W, Halpern BS, Hinson A, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Leprieur F, McGowan J, Morgan LE, Mouillot D, Palacios-Abrantes J, Possingham HP, Rechberger KD, Worm B, Lubchenco J

Nature2023

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06015-6 PMID: 37165243

Reply to: A path forward for analysing the impacts of marine protected areas.

Nature2022

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04776-0 PMID: 35794263

Essential outcomes for COP26.

Smith P, Beaumont L, Bernacchi CJ, Byrne M, Cheung W, Conant RT, Cotrufo F, Feng X, Janssens I, Jones H, Kirschbaum MUF, Kobayashi K, LaRoche J, Luo Y, McKechnie A, Penuelas J, Piao S, Robinson S, Sage RF, Sugget DJ, Thackeray SJ, Way D, Long SP

Global change biology2022

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15926 PMID: 34697870

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies.

Sumaila UR, Skerritt DJ, Schuhbauer A, Villasante S, Cisneros-Montemayor AM, Sinan H, Burnside D, Abdallah PR, Abe K, Addo KA, Adelsheim J, Adewumi IJ, Adeyemo OK, Adger N, Adotey J, Advani S, Afrin Z, Aheto D, Akintola SL, Akpalu W, Alam L, Alava JJ, Allison EH, Amon DJ, Anderies JM, Anderson CM, Andrews E, Angelini R, Anna Z, Antweiler W, Arizi EK, Armitage D, Arthur RI, Asare N, Asche F, Asiedu B, Asuquo F, Badmus L, Bailey M, Ban N, Barbier EB, Barley S, Barnes C, Barrett S, Basurto X, Belhabib D, Bennett E, Bennett NJ, Benzaken D, Blasiak R, Bohorquez JJ, Bordehore C, Bornarel V, Boyd DR, Breitburg D, Brooks C, Brotz L, Campbell D, Cannon S, Cao L, Cardenas Campo JC, Carpenter S, Carpenter G, Carson RT, Carvalho AR, Castrejón M, Caveen AJ, Chabi MN, Chan KMA, Chapin FS, Charles T, Cheung W, Christensen V, Chuku EO, Church T, Clark C, Clarke TM, Cojocaru AL, Copeland B, Crawford B, Crépin AS, Crowder LB, Cury P, Cutting AN, Daily GC, Da-Rocha JM, Das A, de la Puente S, de Zeeuw A, Deikumah SKS, Deith M, Dewitte B, Doubleday N, Duarte CM, Dulvy NK, Eddy T, Efford M, Ehrlich PR, Elsler LG, Fakoya KA, Falaye AE, Fanzo J, Fitzsimmons C, Flaaten O, Florko KRN, Aviles MF, Folke C, Forrest A, Freeman P, Freire KMF, Froese R, Frölicher TL, Gallagher A, Garcon V, Gasalla MA, Gephart JA, Gibbons M, Gillespie K, Giron-Nava A, Gjerde K, Glaser S, Golden C, Gordon L, Govan H, Gryba R, Halpern BS, Hanich Q, Hara M, Harley CDG, Harper S, Harte M, Helm R, Hendrix C, Hicks CC, Hood L, Hoover C, Hopewell K, Horta E Costa BB, Houghton JDR, Iitembu JA, Isaacs M, Isahaku S, Ishimura G, Islam M, Issifu I, Jackson J, Jacquet J, Jensen OP, Ramon JJ, Jin X, Jonah A, Jouffray JB, Juniper SK, Jusoh S, Kadagi I, Kaeriyama M, Kaiser MJ, Kaiser BA, Kakujaha-Matundu O, Karuaihe ST, Karumba M, Kemmerly JD, Khan AS, Kimani P, Kleisner K, Knowlton N, Kotowicz D, Kurien J, Kwong LE, Lade S, Laffoley D, Lam ME, Lam VWL, Lange GM, Latif MT, Le Billon P, Le Brenne V, Le Manach F, Levin SA, Levin L, Limburg KE, List J, Lombard AT, Lopes PFM, Lotze HK, Mallory TG, Mangar RS, Marszalec D, Mattah P, Mayorga J, McAusland C, McCauley DJ, McLean J, McMullen K, Meere F, Mejaes A, Melnychuk M, Mendo J, Micheli F, Millage K, Miller D, Mohamed KS, Mohammed E, Mokhtar M, Morgan L, Muawanah U, Munro GR, Murray G, Mustafa S, Nayak P, Newell D, Nguyen T, Noack F, Nor AM, Nunoo FKE, Obura D, Okey T, Okyere I, Onyango P, Oostdijk M, Orlov P, Österblom H, Owens D, Owens T, Oyinlola M, Pacoureau N, Pakhomov E, Abrantes JP, Pascual U, Paulmier A, Pauly D, Pèlèbè ROE, Peñalosa D, Pennino MG, Peterson G, Pham TTT, Pinkerton E, Polasky S, Polunin NVC, Prah E, Ramírez J, Relano V, Reygondeau G, Robadue D, Roberts C, Rogers A, Roumbedakis K, Sala E, Scheffer M, Segerson K, Seijo JC, Seto KC, Shogren JF, Silver JJ, Singh G, Soszynski A, Splichalova DV, Spring M, Stage J, Stephenson F, Stewart BD, Sultan R, Suttle C, Tagliabue A, Tall A, Talloni-Álvarez N, Tavoni A, Taylor DRF, Teh LSL, Teh LCL, Thiebot JB, Thiele T, Thilsted SH, Thumbadoo RV, Tigchelaar M, Tol RSJ, Tortell P, Troell M, Uzmanoğlu MS, van Putten I, van Santen G, Villaseñor-Derbez JC, Wabnitz CCC, Walsh M, Walsh JP, Wambiji N, Weber EU, Westley F, Williams S, Wisz MS, Worm B, Xiao L, Yagi N, Yamazaki S, Yang H, Zeller D

Science (New York, N.Y.)2021

DOI: 10.1126/science.abm1680 PMID: 34709891

Grand challenges in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research in the era of science-policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks.

O'Connor MI, Mori AS, Gonzalez A, Dee LE, Loreau M, Avolio M, Byrnes JEK, Cheung W, Cowles J, Clark AT, Hautier Y, Hector A, Komatsu K, Newbold T, Outhwaite CL, Reich PB, Seabloom E, Williams L, Wright A, Isbell F

Proceedings. Biological sciences2021

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.0783 PMID: 34641733

Author Correction: Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate.

Sala E, Mayorga J, Bradley D, Cabral RB, Atwood TB, Auber A, Cheung W, Costello C, Ferretti F, Friedlander AM, Gaines SD, Garilao C, Goodell W, Halpern BS, Hinson A, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Leprieur F, McGowan J, Morgan LE, Mouillot D, Palacios-Abrantes J, Possingham HP, Rechberger KD, Worm B, Lubchenco J

Nature2021

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03496-1 PMID: 33833440

Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate.

Sala E, Mayorga J, Bradley D, Cabral RB, Atwood TB, Auber A, Cheung W, Costello C, Ferretti F, Friedlander AM, Gaines SD, Garilao C, Goodell W, Halpern BS, Hinson A, Kaschner K, Kesner-Reyes K, Leprieur F, McGowan J, Morgan LE, Mouillot D, Palacios-Abrantes J, Possingham HP, Rechberger KD, Worm B, Lubchenco J

Nature2021

DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03371-z PMID: 33731930

Civil disobedience movements such as School Strike for the Climate are raising public awareness of the climate change emergency.

Thackeray SJ, Robinson SA, Smith P, Bruno R, Kirschbaum MUF, Bernacchi C, Byrne M, Cheung W, Cotrufo MF, Gienapp P, Hartley S, Janssens I, Hefin Jones T, Kobayashi K, Luo Y, Penuelas J, Sage R, Suggett DJ, Way D, Long S

Global change biology2020

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14978 PMID: 31971648

Fish and fisheries under marine extremes and compound events: responses, resilience and solution options

Principal investigatorNSERC2024Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Cheung, William

Keywords: marine ecosystems; climate change; biodiversity conservation; food security; nature-based solutions; climate adaptation; traits; social-ecological; fisheries

$85,000

Ocean Sustainability and Global Change

Principal investigatorNSERC2022Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cheung, William

Keywords: Global change; Ocean; Sustainability; Fisheries; Climate impact and adaptation; Climate solutions; Scenarios and modelling; Interdisciplinary studies

$200,000

Developing adaptation strategies for healthy fisheries and food security for First Nations in British Columbia under climate change

Principal investigatorCIHR2019Project Grant

Principal investigators: Chan, Laurie H; Batal, Malek; Cheung, William W; Hatch, Marco; Salomon, Anne; Satterfield, Theresa (Terre)

Keywords: Adaptation Plan; British Columbia; Climate Change; Diet And Nutrition; First Nations; Fish Harvest; Food Security; Health Policy; Health Promotion; Marine Management

$1,526,176

Developing adaptation strategies for healthy fisheries and food security for First Nations in British Columbia under climate change

Principal investigatorCIHR2018Project Grant

Principal investigators: Chan, Laurie H; Batal, Malek; Cheung, William W; Salomon, Anne

Keywords: Adaptation Plan; British Columbia; Climate Change; Diet And Nutrition; First Nations; Fish Harvest; Food Security; Health Policy; Health Promotion; Marine Management

$100,000

Scenario of marine biodiversity and evolution under exploitation and climate change

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Belmont Forum / BiodivERsA Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services

Principal investigators: Cheung, William

$203,490

The futures of reef services in the Anthropocene

Co-investigatorNSERC2018Belmont Forum / BiodivERsA Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services

Principal investigators: MacNeil, Aaron

$203,490

NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience

Co-investigatorNSERC2018Strategic Network Grants Program

Principal investigators: Bennett, Elena EM

Keywords: complex systems; ecosystem modelling; ecosystem services; enviromental monitoring; global change; landscape ecology; natural resource management; resilience; sustainability science; translational science

$5,500,000

Boosting adaptation of marine ecosystems to meet climate change challenges

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Cheung, William

$282,000

Ocean Sustainability and Global Change

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cheung, William

$120,000

Ocean Sustainability and Global Change

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Cheung, William

$240,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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William Cheung

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Latest papers

Latest funding

US federal cuts threaten international ocean science and diplomacy.

Reply to: Global effects of marine protected areas on food security are unknown.

Reply to: Quantifying the carbon benefits of ending bottom trawling.

Reply to: A path forward for analysing the impacts of marine protected areas.

Essential outcomes for COP26.

WTO must ban harmful fisheries subsidies.

Grand challenges in biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research in the era of science-policy platforms require explicit consideration of feedbacks.

Author Correction: Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate.

Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate.

Civil disobedience movements such as School Strike for the Climate are raising public awareness of the climate change emergency.

Fish and fisheries under marine extremes and compound events: responses, resilience and solution options

Ocean Sustainability and Global Change

Developing adaptation strategies for healthy fisheries and food security for First Nations in British Columbia under climate change

Developing adaptation strategies for healthy fisheries and food security for First Nations in British Columbia under climate change

Scenario of marine biodiversity and evolution under exploitation and climate change

The futures of reef services in the Anthropocene

NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modelling, and managing Canada's ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience

Boosting adaptation of marine ecosystems to meet climate change challenges

Ocean Sustainability and Global Change

Ocean Sustainability and Global Change

Frequent collaborators

Boris Worm

Daniel Pauly

Danielle Way

Elena Bennett

Megan Bailey

Evan Andrews

Gerald Singh

Philippe Tortell

Villy Christensen

Carol McAusland

Werner Antweiler

Frederik Noack

Tyler Eddy

Julie LaRoche

Evgeny Pakhomov

Derek Armitage

Andrew Gonzalez

Rowan Sage

Philippe Le Billon

Curtis Suttle

Kristen Hopewell

Natalie Ban

Tony Charles

Brian Copeland