The rapid pace of environmental change in the Anthropocene necessitates the development
of a new suite of tools for measuring ecosystem dynamics. Sentinel species can provide …

BACKGROUND Global aquatic environments are changing profoundly as a result of human
actions; consequently, so too are the ways in which organisms are distributing themselves …

The biodiversity of marine and coastal habitats is experiencing unprecedented change.
While there are well-known drivers of these changes, such as overexploitation, climate …

Most spatial marine management techniques (eg, marine protected areas) draw stationary
boundaries around often mobile marine features, animals, or resource users. While these …

Memory is critical to understanding animal movement but has proven challenging to study.
Advances in animal tracking technology, theoretical movement models and cognitive …

Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical
environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas …

Dynamic ocean management, or management that uses near real-time data to guide the
spatial distribution of commercial activities, is an emerging approach to balance ocean …

Stressors associated with human activities interact in complex ways to affect marine
ecosystems, yet we lack spatially explicit assessments of cumulative impacts on ecologically …

Electronic tags are significantly improving our understanding of aquatic animal behavior and
are emerging as key sources of information for conservation and management practices …

Understanding climate change impacts on top predators is fundamental to marine
biodiversity conservation, due to their increasingly threatened populations and their …