Incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries remains the greatest threat to many large marine
vertebrates and is a major barrier to fisheries sustainability. Robust assessments of bycatch …

World‐wide, many seabirds are affected by fisheries in opposing ways: as a source of
mortality from bycatch, but also by providing discards as a predictable and abundant food …

Site selection bias can occur when researchers monitor animals at sites of great abundance,
occupancy or quality. The prevailing heuristic is therefore that ecologists should never select …

Some migratory seabird populations have declined sharply in recent decades. Monitoring
their migratory movements from strategic locations provides a useful tool to understand their …

Abstract The Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus is one of the most threatened
seabirds in the world. To evaluate the abundance and distribution of Balearic Shearwaters …

Abstract The Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus) is the most threatened seabird in
Europe and a member of the most speciose group of pelagic seabirds, the order …

The paper examines the feasibility of achieving the ambitious quantitative commitment
stated in the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 “a 50% reduction in the number of Red List …

Even though incidental captures in fisheries are one of the major threats to seabirds, bycatch
has been difficult to quantify and specific risk areas are rarely identified. The present study …

The expansion of marine protected areas in pelagic areas has been crucial to achieve
sufficient protection of the oceans. However, there is still some controversy about whether …

Abstract Machine learning as a successful approach for predicting complex spatio–temporal
patterns in animal species abundance. Our aim was to identify an optimal analytical …