Overhauling ocean spatial planning to improve marine megafauna conservation

AMM Sequeira, GC Hays, DW Sims… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tracking data have led to evidence-based conservation of marine megafauna, but a
disconnect remains between the many 1000s of individual animals that have been tracked …

Optimizing the use of biologgers for movement ecology research

HJ Williams, LA Taylor, S Benhamou… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The paradigm‐changing opportunities of biologging sensors for ecological research,
especially movement ecology, are vast, but the crucial questions of how best to match the …

SmallSats: a new technological frontier in ecology and conservation?

DJ Curnick, AJ Davies, C Duncan… - Remote Sensing in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We are in the midst of a revolution in satellite technology, with the rapid development and
advancement of small satellites (or SmallSats, ie, satellites< 180 kg). Here, we review the …

Persisting worldwide seabird-fishery competition despite seabird community decline

D Grémillet, A Ponchon, M Paleczny, MLD Palomares… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Fisheries transform marine ecosystems and compete with predators [1], but temporal trends
in seabird-fishery competition had never been assessed on a worldwide scale. Using catch …

Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing

H Weimerskirch, J Collet, A Corbeau… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
With threats to nature becoming increasingly prominent, in order for biodiversity levels to
persist, there is a critical need to improve implementation of conservation measures. In the …

Sex‐specific effects of wind on the flight decisions of a sexually dimorphic soaring bird

TA Clay, R Joo, H Weimerskirch… - Journal of Animal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In a highly dynamic airspace, flying animals are predicted to adjust foraging behaviour to
variable wind conditions to minimize movement costs. Sexual size dimorphism is …

Fine-scale associations between wandering albatrosses and fisheries in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

APB Carneiro, BL Clark, EJ Pearmain, T Clavelle… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bycatch is a conservation concern for marine biodiversity, including seabirds. Analyses of
spatio-temporal overlap are an important tool for identifying areas and periods where birds …

Animal-borne sensors reveal high human impact on soundscapes near a critical sea turtle nesting beach

F Garzon, PD Agamboue, JA Boyle, PD Doherty… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic noise (anthrophony) is pervasive in natural soundscapes and has become
an important aspect of conservation. While moored sound recorders have aided marine …

Linking demographic processes and foraging ecology in wandering albatross—Conservation implications

H Weimerskirch - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Population dynamics and foraging ecology are two fields of the population ecology that are
generally studied separately. Yet, foraging determines allocation processes and therefore …

Environmental drivers of movement in a threatened seabird: insights from a mechanistic model and implications for conservation

CK Frankish, RA Phillips, TA Clay… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Determining the drivers of movement of different life‐history stages is crucial for
understanding age‐related changes in survival rates and, for marine top predators, the link …