Human activities are the main current driver of global change. From hunter‐gatherers
through to Neolithic societies–and particularly in contemporary industrialised countries …

Shearwaters and petrels (hereafter petrels) are highly adapted seabirds that occur across all
the world's oceans. Petrels are a threatened seabird group comprising 124 species. They …

Upcoming reform of the E uropean U nion (EU) C ommon F isheries P olicy will be the
biggest change in E uropean fisheries management for a generation. A central plank of this …

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are recognised as a key component of an ecosystem-based
approach to managing the marine environment more effectively and sustainably. Marine top …

Large‐scale seasonal climatic indices, such as the N orth A tlantic O scillation (NAO) index
or the S outhern O scillation I ndex (SOI), account for major variations in weather and climate …

World‐wide, many seabirds are affected by fisheries in opposing ways: as a source of
mortality from bycatch, but also by providing discards as a predictable and abundant food …

Abstract Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are being established across all marine regions but
their validity for the conservation of highly mobile marine vertebrates has been questioned …

The social license to operate framework considers how society grants or withholds informal
permission for resource extractors to exploit publicly owned resources. We developed a …

Understanding how fisheries influence seabird distribution is critical in the development of
sustainable fisheries management. Species distribution models were applied to analyse the …

Fisheries have an enormous economic importance, but reconciling their socio‐economic
features with the conservation and sustainability of marine ecosystems presents major …