Large pelagic sharks are distributed throughout all of the oceans and are caught as bycatch
in pelagic longline fisheries worldwide. In the southern Atlantic Ocean, more than a dozen …

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research and practical applications across a wide spectrum of environmental fields, with fast …

Many important areas identified for conservation priorities focus on areas of high species
richness, however, it is unclear whether these areas change depending on what aspect of …

Identification of fishing grounds is crucial for a good understanding of fisheries practices and
for proposing effective management measures. A methodology to map fishing grounds and …

Climate change, fishing, and invasion by alien species are the drivers of global change that
mainly affect Patagonian marine fish assemblages. In this chapter, we reconstructed the …

Primary production hotspots in the marine environment occur where the combination of light,
turbulence, temperature and nutrients makes the proliferation of phytoplankton possible …

Introduction Chondrichthyans (sharks, batoids and chimaeras) play key roles in the
regulation of marine food webs dynamics. However, more than half of the assessed species …

Aim We assessed the validity of the division of the Magellanic Province into the four
provinces as proposed by Briggs & Bowen (J Biogeogr 39 12–30, 2012): Southern Chile …

Background Several particular aspects of diversity patterns of Chilean littoral fishes are still
poorly understood, and existing studies within this scope are fundamentally based on …

The composition and structure of demersal chondrichthyan assemblages and the biological
parameters of their main species were compared in four geographical subareas (GSAs) …