Big data approaches to the spatial ecology and conservation of marine megafauna

D Grémillet, D Chevallier… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Satellite remote-sensing and wildlife tracking allow researchers to record rapidly increasing
volumes of information on the spatial ecology of marine megafauna in the context of global …

Space‐use patterns of green turtles in industrial coastal foraging habitat: Challenges and opportunities for informing management with a large satellite tracking …

EG Webster, M Hamann, T Shimada… - Aquatic …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing overlap between anthropogenic activities and wildlife can lead to problematic
human–wildlife interactions. To manage these, an understanding of animal space‐use …

Synergistic use of UAV surveys, satellite tracking data, and mark‐recapture to estimate abundance of elusive species

HJ Stokes, JA Mortimer, JO Laloë, GC Hays… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating population abundance is central to many ecological studies and important in
conservation planning. Yet the elusive nature of many species makes estimating their …

Green turtles shape the seascape through grazing patch formation around habitat features: Experimental evidence

FOH Smulders, ES Bakker, OR O'Shea, JE Campbell… - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how megaherbivores incorporate habitat features into their foraging behavior
is key toward understanding how herbivores shape the surrounding landscape. While the …

[HTML][HTML] High dive efficiency in shallow water

KL Stokes, N Esteban, HJ Stokes, GC Hays - Marine Biology, 2023 - Springer
Dive studies across mammals, birds, reptiles and fish often focus on deep dives, and
shallow water diving has tended to be overlooked. For air-breathers, foraging in shallow …

[HTML][HTML] A brighter future? Stable and growing sea turtle populations in the Republic of Maldives

JA Hudgins, EJ Hudgins, S Köhnk, E Mohamed Riyad… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Indian Ocean represents a significant data gap in the evaluation of sea turtle population
status and trends. Like many small island states, the Republic of Maldives has limited …

[HTML][HTML] Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: Combining scientific data with community perspectives to inform policy decisions

LM Soanes, J Johnson, K Eckert, K Gumbs… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Historic over-exploitation and the more recent threats caused by fisheries by-catch, disease
and climate change have left sea turtle populations in the Wider Caribbean at risk of …

[HTML][HTML] Satellite Tracking of Post-nesting Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) From Ras Baridi, Red Sea

AM Al-Mansi, AZ Sambas, BA Abukaboos… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Identifying migratory pathways and linking nesting sites to foraging areas is essential for
effective conservation management of migratory species, such as marine turtles. Post …

[HTML][HTML] Green turtle movements in the Gulf of Mexico: Tracking reveals new migration corridor and habitat use suggestive of MPA expansion

MM Lamont, AM Benscoter, KM Hart - Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Globally, Marine Protected Areas are an important tool in the conservation of large
marine vertebrates. Recent studies have highlighted the use of protected areas by imperiled …

[HTML][HTML] Daily, seasonal, and long-distance movements inferred from Fastloc-GPS telemetry of immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at a high-latitude, mid-ocean …

RF Hardy, AB Meylan, JA Gray, PA Meylan - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
To characterize the movements and habitat use of juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in
benthic developmental habitat, we deployed Fastloc-GPS-enabled satellite transmitters on …