Advances in understanding the roles and benefits of nursery areas for elasmobranch populations

MR Heupel, S Kanno, APB Martins… - Marine and …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Nursery areas are critical to the survival of many marine species, and it is widely accepted
that elasmobranch species use nursery areas where they improve species fitness. A 2007 …

Evaluating the predictive performance of empirical estimators of natural mortality rate using information on over 200 fish species

AY Then, JM Hoenig, NG Hall, DA Hewitt… - ICES Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Many methods have been developed in the last 70 years to predict the natural mortality rate,
M, of a stock based on empirical evidence from comparative life history studies. These …

Estimating demographic parameters for fisheries management using acoustic telemetry

KJ Lees, MA MacNeil, KJ Hedges… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2021 - Springer
Mark-recapture approaches are among the most powerful fisheries methods for estimating
demographic parameters relating to survival, components of mortality (ie fishing, catch and …

Small-scale fisheries catch more threatened elasmobranchs inside partially protected areas than in unprotected areas

M Di Lorenzo, A Calò, A Di Franco, G Milisenda… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Elasmobranchs are heavily impacted by fishing. Catch statistics are grossly underestimated
due to missing data from various fishery sectors such as small-scale fisheries. Marine …

The influence of environmental parameters on the performance and detection range of acoustic receivers

C Huveneers, CA Simpfendorfer, S Kim… - Methods in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic telemetry is being increasingly used to study the ecology of many aquatic
organisms. This widespread use has been advanced by national and international tracking …

Evaluation of acoustic telemetry grids for determining aquatic animal movement and survival

RT Kraus, CM Holbrook, CS Vandergoot… - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Acoustic telemetry studies have frequently prioritized linear configurations of hydrophone
receivers, such as perpendicular from shorelines or across rivers, to detect the presence of …

Integrating acoustic telemetry into mark–recapture models to improve the precision of apparent survival and abundance estimates

CL Dudgeon, KH Pollock, JM Braccini, JM Semmens… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Capture–mark–recapture models are useful tools for estimating demographic parameters
but often result in low precision when recapture rates are low. Low recapture rates are …

Unified natural mortality estimation for teleosts and elasmobranchs

M Dureuil, WH Aeberhard, KA Burnett… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Natural mortality, M, is a key parameter for the assessment and management of living
resources but is difficult to observe directly. Therefore, M is often estimated indirectly from life …

Satellite telemetry reveals higher fishing mortality rates than previously estimated, suggesting overfishing of an apex marine predator

ME Byrne, E Cortés, JJ Vaudo… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Overfishing is a primary cause of population declines for many shark species of
conservation concern. However, means of obtaining information on fishery interactions and …

Long‐term demographic and reproductive trends in Ciona intestinalis sp. A

L Caputi, F Crocetta, F Toscano, P Sordino… - Marine …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
C iona intestinalis sp. A (T unicata, A scidiacea) is a marine invertebrate with a widespread
distribution and high invasive potential, yet little is known about its ecology. Here, the …