Deep-sea chondrichthyans are cryptic species subject to increasing anthropogenic exploitation. Defining their role in deep-water ecosystems is therefore crucial for predicting …
Understanding the factors shaping patterns of ecological resilience is critical for mitigating the loss of global biodiversity. Throughout aquatic environments, highly mobile predators …
Fishermen from 9 countries distributed throughout the Mediterranean Sea were interviewed between May and December 2019 with the aim of compiling information about the current …
Due to their late maturation, extreme longevity, low fecundity and slow growth rates, deep- sea Chondrichthyes are extremely vulnerable to human impacts. Moreover, assessing the …
CF Cotton, RD Grubbs - Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Approximately half of the known chondrichthyans (sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras), 575 of 1207 species (47.6%, Table 1), live in the deep ocean (below 200 m), yet little is known of …
The pelagic zone of the ocean can be a challenging environment in which to conduct research and as a result we lack the robust baseline abundance and diversity data …
B Talwar, EJ Brooks, JW Mandelman… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2017 - int-res.com
Bycatch interactions with deep-sea elasmobranchs are increasingly common and can lead to dramatic declines in abundance over short time scales. Sharks hooked in the deep sea …
Advances in biotelemetry have revealed the movement behaviours of many terrestrial and shallow-water organisms, contributing critical insight for their conservation and …
The genus Etmopterus is the most speciose group of small bodied deep-sea sharks found throughout the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic. Despite exhibiting a global …