Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean

DJ McCauley, ML Pinsky, SR Palumbi, JA Estes… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

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 …

Matching genetics with oceanography: directional gene flow in a Mediterranean fish species

C Schunter, J CARRERAS‐CARBONELL… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Genetic connectivity and geographic fragmentation are two opposing mechanisms
determining the population structure of species. While the first homogenizes the genetic …

Linking home ranges to protected area size: The case study of the Mediterranean Sea

A Di Franco, JG Plass-Johnson, M Di Lorenzo… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Protected areas not allowing extractive activities (here called fully protected area) are a
spatially explicit conservation management tool commonly used to ensure populations …

Consistent selection towards low activity phenotypes when catchability depends on encounters among human predators and fish

J Alos, M Palmer, R Arlinghaus - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Together with life-history and underlying physiology, the behavioural variability among fish
is one of the three main trait axes that determines the vulnerability to fishing. However, there …

A decade of South Africa's acoustic tracking array platform: an example of a successful ocean stewardship programme

TS Murray, C Elston, MC Parkinson… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Blue Economy is a global initiative aimed at using marine resources to create economic
viability and environmental sustainability. While successes have been reported, for example …

Home range and diel behavior of the ballan wrasse, Labrus bergylta, determined by acoustic telemetry

D Villegas-Ríos, J Alós, D March, M Palmer… - Journal of Sea …, 2013 - Elsevier
Effective fisheries management needs to consider spatial behavior in addition to more
traditional aspects of population dynamics. Acoustic telemetry has been extensively used to …

Coastal observatories for monitoring of fish behaviour and their responses to environmental changes

J Aguzzi, C Doya, S Tecchio, FC De Leo… - Reviews in fish biology …, 2015 - Springer
The inclusion of behavioral components in the analysis of a community can be of paramount
importance in marine ecology. Diel (ie, 24-h based), seasonal activity rhythms, or longer …

Linking temperate demersal fish species to habitat: scales, patterns and future directions

AF Johnson, SR Jenkins, JG Hiddink… - Fish and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Adoption of the ecosystem approach to fisheries management relies on recognition of the
link between fish and other components of the ecosystem, namely their physical and …

Change-point models for identifying behavioral transitions in wild animals

KP Gundermann, DR Diefenbach, WD Walter… - Movement Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Animal behavior can be difficult, time-consuming, and costly to observe in the field directly.
Innovative modeling methods, such as hidden Markov models (HMMs), allow researchers to …