Andrew M. R. Terry, Tom M. Peake, Peter K. McGregor
Identifying the individuals within a population can generate information on life history parameters, generate input data for conservation models, and highlight behavioural traits that may affect management decisions and error or bias within census methods. Individual animals can be discriminated by ...
Abdullah Al Muksit, Fakhrul Hasan, Md. Fahad Hasan Bhuiyan Emon, Md. Rakibul Haque et al.
Colby Loucks, Shannon M. Barber‐Meyer, Md. Abdullah Abraham Hossain, Adam Barlow et al.
Ramūnas Žydelis, Bryan P. Wallace, Eric Gilman, Timothy B. Werner
Many populations of marine megafauna, including seabirds, sea turtles, marine mammals, and elasmobranchs, have declined in recent decades due largely to anthropogenic mortality. To successfully conserve these long-lived animals, efforts must be prioritized according to feasibility and the degree to ...
Brian D. Smith, Gill Braulik, Samantha Strindberg, Benazir Ahmed et al.
Abstract Independent observer teams made concurrent counts of Irrawaddy dolphins Orcaella brevirostris and Ganges River dolphins Platanista gangetica gangetica in mangrove channels of the Sundarbans Delta in Bangladesh. These counts were corrected for missed groups using mark‐recapture models. For I...
Manuel González‐Rivero, Pim Bongaerts, Oscar Beijbom, Oscar Pizarro et al.
ABSTRACT Marine ecosystems provide critically important goods and services to society, and hence their accelerated degradation underpins an urgent need to take rapid, ambitious and informed decisions regarding their conservation and management. The capacity, however, to generate the detailed field d...
Gill Braulik, Barbara L. Taylor, Gianna Minton, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara et al.
To understand the scope and scale of the loss of biodiversity, tools are required that can be applied in a standardized manner to all species globally, spanning realms from land to the open ocean. We used data from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List to provide a synthesi...
Eric Gilman, Donald R. Kobayashi, Milani Chaloupka
Mortality in longline fisheries represents a global threat to some species of pelagicseabirds. Regulations were adopted in 2001 to reduce seabird bycatch in the Hawaii longline tunafishery. We used a Poisson generalized additive regression modeling approach to evaluate thechange in seabird bycatch r...
Brian D. Smith, Asadul Haque, Mosharaff Hossain, Anisuzzaman Khan
/ Ganges river dolphins (Platanista gangetica) are threatened in Bangladesh from the effects of dams, large embankment schemes, dredging, fisheries bycatch, directed hunting, and water pollution. Visual surveys of the section of the Jamuna River located between the divergence of the Old Brahmaputra ...
Brian D. Smith, Gill Braulik, Samantha Strindberg, Rubaiyat M. Mansur et al.
Abstract Generalized additive models of sighting data for cetaceans collected during two surveys of waterways in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh indicated that Ganges River dolphin Platanista gangetica gangetica distribution was conditionally dependent ( P <0.05) on low salinity, hig...
Ivan Masmitjà Rusiñol, Joan Navarro, Spartacus Gomáriz Castro, Jacopo Aguzzi et al.
), one of the key living resources exploited in European waters. In combination with seafloor moored acoustic receivers, we detected and tracked the movements of 33 tagged lobsters at 400-m depth for more than 3 months. We also identified the best procedures to localize both the acoustic receivers a...
John Seidensticker
Francine Kershaw, Matthew S. Leslie, Tim Collins, Rubaiyat M. Mansur et al.
Accurate identification of units for conservation is particularly challenging for marine species as obvious barriers to gene flow are generally lacking. Bryde's whales (Balaenoptera spp.) are subject to multiple human-mediated stressors, including fisheries bycatch, ship strikes, and scientific whal...
Dominic L. Cram, Jessica E. M. van der Wal, Natalie Uomini, Maurício Cantor et al.
Abstract Human‐wildlife cooperation is a type of mutualism in which a human and a wild, free‐living animal actively coordinate their behaviour to achieve a common beneficial outcome. While other cooperative human‐animal interactions involving captive coercion or artificial selection (including domes...
Colleen Corrigan, Jeff Ardron, Mia T. Comeros‐Raynal, Erich Hoyt et al.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how criteria to identify important marine mammal areas (IMMAs) could be developed, and nested in existing global criteria. This process would consider 134 species of marine mammals. Particular attention is given to two suites of global criteria to identify areas importan...