Exposure of marine megafauna to cumulative anthropogenic threats in north-west Australia

LC Ferreira, M Thums, S Whiting, M Meekan… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
As the use of coastal and offshore environments expands, there is a need to better
understand the exposure of marine megafauna to anthropogenic activities that potentially …

Behaviour‐specific spatiotemporal patterns of habitat use by sea turtles revealed using biologging and supervised machine learning

JL Hounslow, S Fossette, W Chong… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation of threatened species and anthropogenic threat mitigation commonly rely on
spatially managed areas selected according to habitat preference. Since the impact of …

Multivariate analysis of biologging data reveals the environmental determinants of diving behaviour in a marine reptile

JL Hounslow, S Fossette, EE Byrnes… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Diving behaviour of 'surfacers' such as sea snakes, cetaceans and turtles is complex and
multi-dimensional, thus may be better captured by multi-sensor biologging data. However …

Multiple satellite tracking datasets inform green turtle conservation at a regional scale

LC Ferreira, M Thums, S Fossette… - Diversity and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Satellite tracking studies of marine megafauna have grown over the last few decades.
The number of these individual datasets are now at levels which if combined, can infer on …

Identifying impactful sea turtle conservation strategies: a mismatch between most influential and most readily manageable life-stages

SA Richards, C Cvitanovic, M Dunlop… - Endangered Species …, 2024 - int-res.com
Sea turtles worldwide face a range of threats including sea level rise and warming
associated with climate change, predation by invasive species, plastic and light pollution …

Age-specific growth and maturity estimates for the flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) by skeletochronology

CN Turner Tomaszewicz, L Avens, JA Seminoff… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
To address a major knowledge gap for flatback sea turtles (Natator depressus), a species
endemic to Australia and considered 'Data Deficient'for IUCN Red List assessment, we …

Predicting core areas of flatback turtle hatchlings and potential exposure to threats

P Wilson, C Pattiaratchi, S Whiting, LC Ferreira… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
The lack of data on distribution of juvenile marine species can limit conservation efforts. As
hatchlings, marine turtles are too small to track using satellite telemetry, so their at-sea …

Fish-habitat associations on a subsea pipeline within an Australian Marine Park

DL McLean, BI Vaughan, BE Malseed… - Marine environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Subsea pipelines have been installed in all major hydrocarbon basins across the globe to
support the offshore Oil & Gas (O&G) industry. These artificial structures provide hard …

Horizontal and vertical movement behaviour of flatback turtles and spatial overlap with industrial development

M Thums, J Rossendell, M Guinea… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2018 - int-res.com
Understanding the overlap of animal distributions and anthropogenic activity is essential for
effective conservation management. Here, we analysed data from satellite transmitters …

Using aerial photogrammetry to assess stock-wide marine turtle nesting distribution, abundance and cumulative exposure to industrial activity

S Fossette, G Loewenthal, LR Peel, A Vitenbergs… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
The lack of accurate distribution maps and reliable abundance estimates for marine species
can limit the ability of managers to design scale-appropriate management measures for a …