Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict

B Abrahms, NH Carter, TJ Clark-Wolf… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change and human–wildlife conflict are both pressing challenges for biodiversity
conservation and human well-being in the Anthropocene. Climate change is a critical yet …

Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world's largest fish, the whale shark

FC Womersley, NE Humphries… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Marine traffic is increasing globally yet collisions with endangered megafauna such as
whales, sea turtles, and planktivorous sharks go largely undetected or unreported …

Dynamic human, oceanographic, and ecological factors mediate transboundary fishery overlap across the Pacific high seas

TH Frawley, B Muhling, S Brodie, H Blondin… - Fish and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The management and conservation of tuna and other transboundary marine species have to
date been limited by an incomplete understanding of the oceanographic, ecological and …

Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind‐driven resource tracking by blue whales

JP Ryan, KJ Benoit‐Bird, WK Oestreich, P Leary… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Trophic transfer of energy through marine food webs is strongly influenced by prey
aggregation and its exploitation by predators. Rapid aggregation of some marine fish and …

Not all maps are equal: Evaluating approaches for mapping vessel collision risk to large baleen whales

EL Hague, WD Halliday, J Dawson… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A growing and increasingly globalised human population, requiring the movement of goods
and commodities, is placing increasing demands on the maritime industry, resulting in a …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial distribution and encounter rates of delphinids and deep diving cetaceans in the eastern Mediterranean Sea of Turkey and the extent of overlap with …

T Awbery, A Akkaya, P Lyne, L Rudd… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Marine traffic has been identified as a serious threat to Mediterranean cetaceans with few
mitigation strategies in place. With only limited research effort within the Eastern Basin …

Traffic in a nursery: Ship strike risk from commercial vessels to migrating humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in a rapidly developing Australian urban …

R Mayaud, J Castrillon, C Wilson, D Peel, JN Smith… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid recovery of the Australian humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) population
and parallel increase in maritime traffic, has increased the spatial overlap between whales …

Unseen overlap between fishing vessels and top predators in the northeast Pacific

H Welch, T Clavelle, TD White, MA Cimino… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Accurate assessments of human-wildlife risk associated with industrial fishing are critical for
the conservation of marine top predators. Automatic Identification System (AIS) data provide …

[HTML][HTML] Automated identification system for ships data as a proxy for marine vessel related stressors

PD O'Hara, N Serra-Sogas, L McWhinnie… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
An increasing number of marine conservation initiatives rely on data from Automatic
Identification System (AIS) to inform marine vessel traffic associated impact assessments …

Dynamic strategies offer potential to reduce lethal ship collisions with large whales under changing climate conditions

A Hausner, JF Samhouri, EL Hazen, D Delgerjargal… - Marine Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Dynamic ocean management (DOM), a type of marine spatial planning in which
management decisions are updated in response to changing environmental, biological, or …