Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on
resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort …

Global climate change affects a suite of oceanic characteristics including temperature,
salinity, currents, and animal distribution. It is imperative that accurate baselines in …

Climate change influences marine environmental conditions and is projected to increase
future environmental variability. In the North Atlantic, such changes will affect the behavior …

Nursery area habitats such as estuaries are vital for the success of many fish populations.
Climate change is altering conditions in these areas, which can thus impact the availability …

Estuaries promote high levels of productivity and biodiversity by providing habitat for many
biological communities due to their wide range of environmental conditions. Estuarine …

As coastal species experience increasing anthropogenic pressures there is a growing need
to characterise the ecological drivers of their abundance and habitat use, and understand …

The international fin trade is a major source of mortality for many threatened shark species
but most of what it is known about this trade comes from assessments of large fins …

Basic distribution and movements of elasmobranch species, particularly mesopredatory
rays, remain relatively unknown. This is especially true for the whitespotted eagle ray …

Coastal shark abundance and community structure was quantified across 10 geographic
areas in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico using fishery-independent gillnet data from 2003 to …

Evidence-based environmental management is urgently required to enable progress
towards global conservation commitments. To fill large-scale biodiversity knowledge gaps …