Animal-borne sensors as a biologically informed lens on a changing climate

D Ellis-Soto, M Wikelski, W Jetz - Nature Climate Change, 2023 - nature.com
As climate change transforms the biosphere, more comprehensive and biologically relevant
measurements of changing conditions are needed. Traditional climate measurements are …

Domestic animals as potential reservoirs of zoonotic viral diseases

O Tomori, DO Oluwayelu - Annual review of animal biosciences, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Zoonoses are diseases and infections naturally transmitted between humans and vertebrate
animals. Over the years, zoonoses have become increasingly significant threats to global …

Impacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable

H Welch, MS Savoca, S Brodie, MG Jacox… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves cause widespread environmental, biological, and socio-economic
impacts, placing them at the forefront of 21st-century management challenges. However …

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

MA Hindell, RR Reisinger, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate
change,. Mitigation requires the identification and protection of Areas of Ecological …

Seventy years of tunas, billfishes, and sharks as sentinels of global ocean health

MJ Juan-Jordá, H Murua, H Arrizabalaga, G Merino… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Fishing activity is closely monitored to an increasing degree, but its effects on biodiversity
have not received such attention. Using iconic and well-studied fish species such as tunas …

Big data and the united nations sustainable development goals (UN SDGs) at a glance

H Hassani, X Huang, S MacFeely… - Big Data and Cognitive …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The launch of the United Nations (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015
was a historic event, uniting countries around the world around the shared agenda of …

Animal-borne telemetry: an integral component of the ocean observing toolkit

R Harcourt, AMM Sequeira, X Zhang… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Animal telemetry is a powerful tool for observing marine animals and the physical
environments that they inhabit, from coastal and continental shelf ecosystems to polar seas …

[HTML][HTML] A review of climate change effects on marine mammals in United States waters: Past predictions, observed impacts, current research and conservation …

FMD Gulland, JD Baker, M Howe, E LaBrecque… - Climate Change …, 2022 - Elsevier
We consider the current evidence of climate change effects on marine mammals that occur
in US waters relative to past predictions. Compelling cases of such effects have been …

Marine ecosystem assessment for the Southern Ocean: birds and marine mammals in a changing climate

S Bestley, Y Ropert-Coudert… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Middle‐out ecology: small carnivores as sentinels of global change

CJ Marneweck, BL Allen, AR Butler… - Mammal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Species that respond to ecosystem change in a timely, measurable, and interpretable way
can be used as sentinels of global change. Contrary to a pervasive view, we suggest that …