Barriers in a sea of elasmobranchs: From fishing for populations to testing hypotheses in population genetics

M Hirschfeld, C Dudgeon, M Sheaves… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background The interplay of animal dispersal and environmental heterogeneity is
fundamental for the distribution of biodiversity on earth. In the ocean, the interaction of …

Overhauling ocean spatial planning to improve marine megafauna conservation

AMM Sequeira, GC Hays, DW Sims… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tracking data have led to evidence-based conservation of marine megafauna, but a
disconnect remains between the many 1000s of individual animals that have been tracked …

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries

N Queiroz, NE Humphries, A Couto, M Vedor… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on
resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort …

Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)

N Hammerschlag, LH McDonnell, MJ Rider… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Given climate change threats to ecosystems, it is critical to understand the responses of
species to warming. This is especially important in the case of apex predators since they …

Ocean-wide tracking of pelagic sharks reveals extent of overlap with longline fishing hotspots

N Queiroz, NE Humphries… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks

CS Bird, A Veríssimo, S Magozzi, KG Abrantes… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Sharks are a diverse group of mobile predators that forage across varied spatial scales and
have the potential to influence food web dynamics. The ecological consequences of recent …

Global tracking of shark movements, behaviour and ecology: A review of the renaissance years of satellite tagging studies, 2010–2020

S Renshaw, N Hammerschlag, AJ Gallagher… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Satellite telemetry as a tool in marine ecological research continues to adapt and grow and
has become increasingly popular in recent years to study shark species on a global scale. A …

The role of context in elucidating drivers of animal movement

N Lubitz, M Bradley, M Sheaves… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite its consequences for ecological processes and population dynamics, intra‐specific
variability is frequently overlooked in animal movement studies. Consequently, the …

Distributions and movements of Atlantic shark species: a 52-year retrospective atlas of mark and recapture data

NE Kohler, PA Turner - 2018 - repository.library.noaa.gov
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Cooperative Shark Tagging Program (CSTP)
was initiated in 1962 as a collaborative effort between recreational anglers, the commercial …

Preliminary recovery of coastal sharks in the south‐east United States

CD Peterson, CN Belcher, DM Bethea… - Fish and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Relative abundance of many shark species in the Atlantic is assessed by compiling data
from several independently conducted, but somewhat spatially limited surveys. Although …