Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean

DJ McCauley, ML Pinsky, SR Palumbi, JA Estes… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries

EL Hazen, KL Scales, SM Maxwell, DK Briscoe… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Seafood is an essential source of protein for more than 3 billion people worldwide, yet
bycatch of threatened species in capture fisheries remains a major impediment to fisheries …

Modern technologies and integrated observing systems are “instrumental” to fisheries oceanography: A brief history of ocean data collection

FB Schwing - Fisheries Oceanography, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Interdisciplinary data fuel fisheries oceanography research and the ecosystem‐based
approaches to management and sustainable development it informs. Underlying this is a …

Impact of the 2015 El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the abundance and foraging habits of Guadalupe fur seals and California sea lions from the San Benito …

FR Elorriaga-Verplancken, GE Sierra-Rodríguez… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The abundance of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus)(CSLs) and Guadalupe fur
seals (Arctocephalus philippii townsendi)(GFSs) from the San Benito Archipelago (SBA) was …

Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa

B Abrahms, DP Seidel, E Dougherty, EL Hazen… - Movement ecology, 2017 - Springer
Background Because empirical studies of animal movement are most-often site-and species-
specific, we lack understanding of the level of consistency in movement patterns across …

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 …

Spatio-temporal diet variability of the California sea lion Zalophus californianus in the southern California Current Ecosystem

MS Lowry, SE Nehasil, JE Moore - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2022 - int-res.com
Characterizing predator diets is essential to understanding food web dynamics. We
investigated the dietary breadth and variation of the California sea lion (CSL) Zalophus …

The demographic decline of a sea lion population followed multi-decadal sea surface warming

K Adame, FR Elorriaga-Verplancken, E Beier… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The population growth of top predators depends largely on environmental conditions
suitable for aggregating sufficient and high-quality prey. We reconstructed numerically the …

Ecological implications of unprecedented warm water anomalies on interannual prey preferences and foraging areas of Guadalupe fur seals

MJ Amador‐Capitanachi… - Marine Mammal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Guadalupe fur seal (GFS) currently is recovering from near extinction and prey
availability is an important factor. Scat and stable isotope analyses (SIA) were used to …

Accuracy and precision of citizen scientist animal counts from drone imagery

SA Wood, PW Robinson, DP Costa, RS Beltran - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Repeated counts of animal abundance can reveal changes in local ecosystem health and
inform conservation strategies. Unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also known as drones …