The importance of sample size in marine megafauna tagging studies

AMM Sequeira, MR Heupel, MA Lea… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Telemetry is a key, widely used tool to understand marine megafauna distribution, habitat
use, behavior, and physiology; however, a critical question remains:“How many animals …

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 …

Convergence of marine megafauna movement patterns in coastal and open oceans

AMM Sequeira, JP Rodríguez… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The extent of increasing anthropogenic impacts on large marine vertebrates partly depends
on the animals' movement patterns. Effective conservation requires identification of the key …

Using satellite tracking to optimize protection of long-lived marine species: olive ridley sea turtle conservation in Central Africa

SM Maxwell, GA Breed, BA Nickel… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Tractable conservation measures for long-lived species require the intersection between
protection of biologically relevant life history stages and a socioeconomically feasible …

Declines and recovery in endangered Galapagos pinnipeds during the El Niño event

D Páez-Rosas, J Torres, E Espinoza, A Marchetti… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Currently, the Galapagos sea lion (GSL, Zalophus wollebaeki) and Galapagos fur seal (GFS,
Arctocephalus galapagoensis) are among the most important endemic species for …

Stable isotope analyses reveal individual variability in the trophic ecology of a top marine predator, the southern elephant seal

LA Hückstädt, PL Koch, BI McDonald, ME Goebel… - Oecologia, 2012 - Springer
Identifying individuals' foraging strategies is critical to understanding the ecology of a
species, and can provide the means to predict possible ecological responses to …

Individuality counts: A new comprehensive approach to foraging strategies of a tropical marine predator

JFL Schwarz, S Mews, EJ DeRango, R Langrock… - Oecologia, 2021 - Springer
Foraging strategies are of great ecological interest, as they have a strong impact on the
fitness of an individual and can affect its ability to cope with a changing environment. Recent …

Diving deeper into individual foraging specializations of a large marine predator, the southern sea lion

AMM Baylis, RA Orben, JPY Arnould, K Peters, T Knox… - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Despite global declines in the abundance of marine predators, knowledge of foraging
ecology, necessary to predict the ecological consequences of large changes in marine …

Stable isotopes indicate differing foraging strategies in two sympatric otariids of the Galapagos Islands

D Páez-Rosas, D Aurioles-Gamboa, JJ Alava… - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - Elsevier
The feeding behavior of marine predators varies with the level of competition to which they
are exposed. Populations living in the same or overlapping geographic regions (sympatric) …

Trends in tagging of marine mammals: a review of marine mammal biologging studies

T McIntyre - African journal of marine science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The number of scientific papers resulting from biologging instruments deployed on marine
mammals is increasing as improved technologies result in smaller devices and improved …