Human exploitation of wildlife for food, medicine, curios, aphrodisiacs, and spiritual artifacts
represents a mounting 21st‐century conservation challenge. Here, we provide the first …

Social‐ecological systems like fisheries provide food, livelihoods and recreation. However,
lack of data and its integration into governance hinders their conservation and management …

River meander migration is a process that maintains biodiverse riparian ecosystems by
producing highly sinuous rivers, and oxbow lakes. However, although the floodplains …

Studies on elasmobranch trade have often focused on a single commodity, shark fins. Such
a narrow focus can result in an incomplete understanding of the socio-cultural importance of …

Successful conservation of long‐lived species requires reliable understanding of long‐term
trends and historical baselines. We present a framework for evaluating abundance trends …

Quantifying demographic parameters and variable vital rates, such as somatic growth rates,
time to maturity, and reproductive longevity, is important for effective management of …

Small-scale fisheries (SSF) account for much of the global fish catch, but data to assess
them often do not exist, impeding assessments of their historical dynamics and status. Here …

Investigating the feeding ecology of marine predators is critical for understanding their roles
and functional importance in ecosystems. However, assessing the diet of large and wide …

Arribadas present many research challenges, such as establishing historical baselines and
the elucidation of their formation and evolution. For local communities arribadas mean …

Our research addresses knowledge integration for the good governance of the environment
and the oceans:(a) through a comprehensive legal, political science, and anthropological …