But this requires the model species actually to be present in an area, so that the learning can take place.

ECONOMIST: Insects and mimicry

Michael Harte, the Falklands' government's economic adviser, hopes that the Illex agreement will become a model for deals on other species that face overfishing because their migrations straddle different human jurisdictions.

ECONOMIST: Conservation in the Falkland Islands

Cheung developed a global model that includes more than 600 species of fishes and invertebrates, to investigate the combined impacts of multiple human stressors on marine fisheries potential catch.

MSN: Oceans' Sad Future: A Sea of Small Fish

It is based on the model of the European register of Marine Species and hosted by the Flanders Marine institute in Belgium.

UNESCO: THEMES

The researchers used the threat to birds as a model for working out the costs of extinction to all species.

BBC: Science & Environment

The computer model in the study builds on decades of research that shows that most species of fish, especially large ones, have maximum growth sizes based on the availability of oxygen in the water.

FORBES: Carbon Emissions Threaten The Fishing Industry By Shrinking Fish Sizes

Using data collected from soil samples, the research team ran an extreme scenario - where kudzu covered all non-urban and non-agricultural soils in the species' range by 2050 - through a "chemical transport" model.

BBC: Invasive plant 'increases ozone pollution'

But it is a useful discovery, because such duplication is also found in species such as maize, and it thus makes Arabidopsis an even better model for other things botanical than researchers had previously thought.

ECONOMIST: The Arabidopsis genome