Larval dispersal and movement patterns of coral reef fishes, and implications for marine reserve network design

AL Green, AP Maypa, GR Almany… - Biological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Well‐designed and effectively managed networks of marine reserves can be effective tools
for both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation. Connectivity, the demographic …

There and back again: a review of residency and return migrations in sharks, with implications for population structure and management

DD Chapman, KA Feldheim… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The overexploitation of sharks has become a global environmental issue in need of a
comprehensive and multifaceted management response. Tracking studies are beginning to …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-habitat associations: implications of marine park zoning

M Espinoza, M Cappo, MR Heupel, AJ Tobin… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-specific habitat associations in response
to geographic and environmental drivers is critical to assessing risk of exposure to fishing …

Predicting responses to marine heatwaves using functional traits

BP Harvey, KE Marshall, CDG Harley… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), discrete but prolonged periods of anomalously warm seawater,
can fundamentally restructure marine communities and ecosystems. Although our …

Mobile marine predators: an understudied source of nutrients to coral reefs in an unfished atoll

JJ Williams, YP Papastamatiou… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal movements can facilitate important ecological processes, and wide-ranging marine
predators, such as sharks, potentially contribute significantly towards nutrient transfer …

Patterns and drivers of vertical movements of the large fishes of the epipelagic

S Andrzejaczek, AC Gleiss, CB Pattiaratchi… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2019 - Springer
Large epipelagic fishes (> 30 kg maximum size) are known to display a variety of patterns of
vertical movement. Although advances in the affordability and sophistication of electronic …

Contrasting movements and connectivity of reef‐associated sharks using acoustic telemetry: Implications for management

M Espinoza, EJI Lédée, CA Simpfendorfer… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the efficacy of marine protected areas (MPAs) for wide‐ranging predators is
essential to designing effective management and conservation approaches. The use of …

[HTML][HTML] Citizen science provides valuable data to evaluate elasmobranch diversity and trends throughout the French Polynesia's shark sanctuary

C Séguigne, J Mourier, É Clua, N Buray, S Planes - PloS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Observers of the Polynesian Shark Observatory (ORP), a citizen science network organized
mainly through the Polynesian dive centers, collected an unprecedented amount of data …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence of partial migration in a large coastal predator: opportunistic foraging and reproduction as key drivers?

M Espinoza, MR Heupel, AJ Tobin, CA Simpfendorfer - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Understanding animal movement decisions that involve migration is critical for evaluating
population connectivity, and thus persistence. Recent work on sharks has shown that often …

Conservation potential of apex predator tourism

C Macdonald, AJ Gallagher, A Barnett… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent decades, public interest in apex predators has led to the creation and expansion of
predator-focused wildlife tourism. As wildlife tourism has become an increasing topic of …