Tracking the rising extinction risk of sharks and rays in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea

RHL Walls, NK Dulvy - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The loss of biodiversity is increasingly well understood on land, but trajectories of extinction
risk remain largely unknown in the ocean. We present regional Red List Indices (RLIs) to …

Angel sharks (Squatinidae): A review of biological knowledge and exploitation

JR Ellis, J Barker, SR McCully Phillips… - Journal of Fish …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Angel sharks (Squatina spp.) are distributed in warm temperate to tropical waters around the
world. Many species occur in shelf seas and exhibit seasonal inshore–offshore migrations …

Century‐scale loss and change in the fishes and fisheries of a temperate marine ecosystem revealed by qualitative historical sources

ABM Moore, K Brander, S Evans, P Holm… - Fish and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Policies aiming to restore ecosystems, achieve thriving fisheries and reverse biodiversity
loss require knowledge of their former status and long‐term variation. As quantitative fish …

Bridging the gap between chondrichthyan paleobiology and biology

LB Whitenack, SL Kim… - Biology of Sharks and Their …, 2022 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Chondrichthyans have a long evolutionary history, reaching back over 450 million years.
Despite the longevity of the chondrichthyan fossil record, it is remarkably incomplete. This …

Spatiotemporal distribution and sexual segregation in the Critically Endangered angelshark Squatina squatina in Spain's largest marine reserve

LR Mead, DJ Alvarado, E Meyers, J Barker… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Establishing how threatened wildlife are distributed spatially and temporally is essential for
effective conservation and management planning. While many shark species are threatened …

A long-term view on recent changes in abundance of common skate complex in the North Sea

RA Bom, A Brader, J Batsleer, JJ Poos… - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
Following decades of declines, populations of large fish recently started to increase in the
North Sea, presumably due to reduced fishing pressure. However, population recovery may …

[HTML][HTML] Newspapers describe long-term trends in whale occurrence in the nearshore New York Bight

DM Brown, J Wiedenmann - Ocean & Coastal Management, 2024 - Elsevier
To understand trends in species occurrence, it is important to incorporate historical data. The
digitization of printed newspapers dating back to colonial times allows for a cost-effective …

[HTML][HTML] Stomach content analysis indicates multi decadal trophic stability in a temperate coastal fish food web, western Dutch Wadden Sea

SSH Poiesz, JIJ Witte, HW van der Veer - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Information about stomach content composition of fish species of a temperate
coastal fish community (western Dutch Wadden Sea) over the period 1930–2019 was …

Aligning paleobiological research with conservation priorities using elasmobranchs as a model

EM Dillon, C Pimiento - Paleobiology, 2024 - cambridge.org
Humans have dramatically transformed ecosystems over the previous millennia and are
potentially causing a mass extinction event comparable to the others that shaped the history …

Fluid‐preserved fishes are one solution for assessing historical change in fish trophic level

RL Welicky, T Rolfe, K Leazer… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
There are few resources available for assessing historical change in fish trophic dynamics,
but specimens held in natural history collections could serve as this resource. In …