Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

Theoretical models of coastal shark populations have remained largely unchanged since
the 1960s despite limitations in applicability to many species. Smaller bodied coastal …

The rapid expansion of human activities threatens ocean-wide biodiversity. Numerous
marine animal populations have declined, yet it remains unclear whether these trends are …

Over the past 4 decades there has been a growing concern for the conservation status of
elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). In 2002, the first elasmobranch species were added to …

Human impacts on the world's oceans have been substantial, leading to concerns about the
extinction of marine taxa. We have compiled 133 local, regional and global extinctions of …

Fishing spans all oceans and the impact on ocean predators such as sharks and rays is
largely unknown. A lack of data and complicated jurisdictional issues present particular …

It is important to understand the ages, growth characteristics, maturation processes, and
longevity of fishes to assess their current population status and to predict how their …

I explored the effect of uncertainty in demographic traits on demographic analyses of sharks,
an approach not used before for this taxon. I used age‐structured life tables and Leslie …

Abstract An Integrated Risk Assessment for Climate Change (IRACC) is developed and
applied to assess the vulnerability of sharks and rays on Australia's Great Barrier Reef …

Large marine protected areas (MPAs) have recently been established throughout the world
at an unprecedented pace, yet the value of these reserves for mobile species conservation …