[HTML][HTML] The Blue Economy and the United Nations' sustainable development goals: Challenges and opportunities

KH Lee, J Noh, JS Khim - Environment international, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The “Blue Economy (BE)” is an increasingly popular concept as a strategy for
safeguarding the world's oceans and water resources. It may emerge when economic …

[HTML][HTML] Data integration for large-scale models of species distributions

NJB Isaac, MA Jarzyna, P Keil, LI Dambly… - Trends in ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
With the expansion in the quantity and types of biodiversity data being collected, there is a
need to find ways to combine these different sources to provide cohesive summaries of …

Functional diversity of marine megafauna in the Anthropocene

C Pimiento, F Leprieur, D Silvestro, JS Lefcheck… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Marine megafauna, the largest animals in the oceans, serve key roles in ecosystem
functioning. Yet, one-third of these animals are at risk of extinction. To better understand the …

[HTML][HTML] A global review of green turtle diet: sea surface temperature as a potential driver of omnivory levels

N Esteban, JA Mortimer, HJ Stokes, JO Laloë… - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
To better understand dietary requirements, trophic shifts, and trophic interactions of the
threatened green turtle (Chelonia mydas), we conducted a comprehensive global review …

Fidelity to foraging sites after long migrations

T Shimada, CJ Limpus, M Hamann, I Bell… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of animal movement associated with foraging lie at the heart of many ecological
studies and often animals face decisions of staying in an environment they know versus …

Rethinking megafauna

M Moleon, JA Sanchez-Zapata… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Concern for megafauna is increasing among scientists and non-scientists. Many studies
have emphasized that megafauna play prominent ecological roles and provide important …

[HTML][HTML] Animal-borne metrics enable acoustic detection of blue whale migration

WK Oestreich, JA Fahlbusch, DE Cade, J Calambokidis… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Linking individual and population scales is fundamental to many concepts in ecology [1],
including migration [2, 3]. This behavior is a critical [4] yet increasingly threatened [5] part of …

A framework for mapping the distribution of seabirds by integrating tracking, demography and phenology

APB Carneiro, EJ Pearmain, S Oppel… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The identification of geographic areas where the densities of animals are highest across
their annual cycles is a crucial step in conservation planning. In marine environments …

Long‐term photo‐id and satellite tracking reveal sex‐biased survival linked to movements in an endangered species

G Schofield, M Klaassen, K Papafitsoros, MKS Lilley… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sex‐biased survival linked to anthropogenic threats places populations at risk. We show the
utility of long‐term multidecadal photo‐identification (photo‐id) combined with long‐term …

[HTML][HTML] Movements and behaviour of blue whales satellite tagged in an Australian upwelling system

LM Mӧller, CRM Attard, K Bilgmann, V Andrews-Goff… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Knowledge about the movement ecology of endangered species is needed to
identify biologically important areas and the spatio-temporal scale of potential human …