Recovery of marine animal populations and ecosystems

HK Lotze, M Coll, AM Magera, C Ward-Paige… - Trends in ecology & …, 2011 - cell.com
Many marine populations and ecosystems have experienced strong historical depletions,
yet reports of recoveries are increasing. Here, we review the growing research on marine …

Research priorities to support effective manta and devil ray conservation

JD Stewart, FRA Jaine, AJ Armstrong… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Manta and devil rays are filter-feeding elasmobranchs that are found circumglobally in
tropical and subtropical waters. Although relatively understudied for most of the Twentieth …

Global distribution and conservation of marine mammals

S Pompa, PR Ehrlich… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
We identified 20 global key conservation sites for all marine (123) and freshwater (6)
mammal species based on their geographic ranges. We created geographic range maps for …

Effectiveness of European Atlanto-Mediterranean MPAs: do they accomplish the expected effects on populations, communities and ecosystems?

JA García-Charton, A Pérez-Ruzafa, C Marcos… - Journal for Nature …, 2008 - Elsevier
The success of MPAs in conserving fishing resources and protecting marine biodiversity
relies strongly on how well they meet their planned (or implicit) management goals. From a …

Connecting places: the ecological consequences of dispersal in the sea

SVND GaiNeS, BN GaylorD, LR Gerber, A Hastings… - Oceanography, 2007 - JSTOR
Few traits are shared by all species of animals and plants. Movement is a noteworthy
exception. Although many species seem permanently locked to a particular place, they …

Life histories, population dynamics, and extinction risks in chondrichthyans

NK Dulvy, RE Forrest - Sharks and their relatives II, 2010 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Life Histories, Population Dynamics, and Extinction Risks in Chondrichthyans Page 1 639
17 Life Histories, Population Dynamics, and Extinction Risks in Chondrichthyans Nicholas K …

Using satellite tracking to optimize protection of long-lived marine species: olive ridley sea turtle conservation in Central Africa

SM Maxwell, GA Breed, BA Nickel… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Tractable conservation measures for long-lived species require the intersection between
protection of biologically relevant life history stages and a socioeconomically feasible …

LIFE HISTORY AND VIABILITY OF A LONG‐LIVED MARINE INVERTEBRATE: THE OCTOCORAL PARAMURICEA CLAVATA

C Linares, DF Doak, R Coma, D Díaz, M Zabala - Ecology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The red gorgonian Paramuricea clavata is a long‐lived, slow‐growing sessile invertebrate of
ecological and conservation importance in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. We …

Relative importance of avian life-history variables to population growth rate

JT Stahl, MK Oli - Ecological modelling, 2006 - Elsevier
Population growth rate is a function of several life-history variables, which differ in their
potential influence on population dynamics. Knowledge of the relative importance of these …

Impacts of fisheries bycatch on loggerhead turtles worldwide inferred from reproductive value analyses

BP Wallace, SS Heppell, RL Lewison… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Fisheries bycatch has been implicated in declines of many long‐lived marine
vertebrate populations, but bycatch impacts on these populations vary according to spatio …