This paper reviews the use of acoustic telemetry as a tool for addressing issues in fisheries
management, and serves as the lead to the special Feature Issue of Ecological Applications …

The overexploitation of sharks has become a global environmental issue in need of a
comprehensive and multifaceted management response. Tracking studies are beginning to …

Migration, broadly defined as directional movement to take advantage of spatially distributed
resources, is a dramatic behaviour and an important component of many life histories that …

Pelagic marine predators face unprecedented challenges and uncertain futures.
Overexploitation and climate variability impact the abundance and distribution of top …

Background Resolving threats to widely distributed marine megafauna requires definition of
the geographic distributions of both the threats as well as the population unit (s) of interest …

Over the past 4 decades there has been a growing concern for the conservation status of
elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). In 2002, the first elasmobranch species were added to …

In an effort to provide a framework for the accurate identification of elasmobranchs, driven in
large part by the needs of parasitological studies, a comprehensive survey of DNA …

Overfishing is arguably the greatest ecological threat facing the oceans, yet catches of many
highly migratory fishes including oceanic sharks remain largely unregulated with poor …

Since the first investigation 25 years ago, the application of genetic tools to address
ecological and evolutionary questions in elasmobranch studies has greatly expanded. Major …

We quantified the relative influence of maternal fidelity to feeding grounds and natal fidelity
to breeding grounds on the population structure of humpback whales Megaptera …