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Barnett A, Jaine FRA, Bierwagen SL, Lubitz N, Abrantes K, Heupel MR, Harcourt R, Huveneers C, Dwyer RG, Udyawer V, Simpfendorfer CA, Miller IB, Scott-Holland T, Kilpatrick CS, Williams SM, Smith D, Dudgeon CL, Hoey AS, Fitzpatrick R, Osborne FE, Smoothey AF, Butcher PA, Sheaves M, Fisher EE, Svaikauskas M, Ellis M, Kanno S, Cresswell BJ, Flint N, Armstrong AO, Townsend KA, Mitchell JD, Campbell M, Peddemors VM, Gustafson JA, Currey-Randall LM. From little things big things grow: enhancement of an acoustic telemetry network to monitor broad-scale movements of marine species along Australia's east coast. Mov Ecol 2024; 12:31. [PMID: 38654348 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-024-00468-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Acoustic telemetry has become a fundamental tool to monitor the movement of aquatic species. Advances in technology, in particular the development of batteries with lives of > 10 years, have increased our ability to track the long-term movement patterns of many species. However, logistics and financial constraints often dictate the locations and deployment duration of acoustic receivers. Consequently, there is often a compromise between optimal array design and affordability. Such constraints can hinder the ability to track marine animals over large spatial and temporal scales. Continental-scale receiver networks have increased the ability to study large-scale movements, but significant gaps in coverage often remain. METHODS Since 2007, the Integrated Marine Observing System's Animal Tracking Facility (IMOS ATF) has maintained permanent receiver installations on the eastern Australian seaboard. In this study, we present the recent enhancement of the IMOS ATF acoustic tracking infrastructure in Queensland to collect data on large-scale movements of marine species in the northeast extent of the national array. Securing a relatively small initial investment for expanding receiver deployment and tagging activities in Queensland served as a catalyst, bringing together a diverse group of stakeholders (research institutes, universities, government departments, port corporations, industries, Indigenous ranger groups and tourism operators) to create an extensive collaborative network that could sustain the extended receiver coverage into the future. To fill gaps between existing installations and maximise the monitoring footprint, the new initiative has an atypical design, deploying many single receivers spread across 2,100 km of Queensland waters. RESULTS The approach revealed previously unknown broad-scale movements for some species and highlights that clusters of receivers are not always required to enhance data collection. However, array designs using predominantly single receiver deployments are more vulnerable to data gaps when receivers are lost or fail, and therefore "redundancy" is a critical consideration when designing this type of array. CONCLUSION Initial results suggest that our array enhancement, if sustained over many years, will uncover a range of previously unknown movements that will assist in addressing ecological, fisheries, and conservation questions for multiple species.
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- Adam Barnett
- Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia.
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia.
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- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tracking Facility, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia
- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia
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- Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia
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- Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia
- Integrated Marine Observing System, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
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- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tracking Facility, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia
- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 5042, Australia
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- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD, 4556, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, NT, 0810, Australia
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- University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, 7001, Australia
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia
- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Queensland Government, Department of Environment and Science, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, Manly, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD, 4556, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD, 4556, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries Research, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, New South Wales, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, New South Wales, National Marine Science Center, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, 2450, Australia
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- Marine Data Technology Hub, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- GBR Biology, Experience Co., Cairns, QLD, 4870, Australia
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- Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal, Haypoint, Mackay, QLD, 4740, Australia
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- Gladstone Ports Corporation Limited, Gladstone, QLD, 4680, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- Coastal Marine Ecosystems Research Centre, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, QLD, 4702, Australia
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- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD, 4556, Australia
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- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, QLD, 4556, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
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- Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries Research, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, New South Wales, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia
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- Coastal and Marine Research Centre, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, 4215, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia
- AIMS@JCU, Division of Research and Innovation, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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Finucci B, Pacoureau N, Rigby CL, Matsushiba JH, Faure-Beaulieu N, Sherman CS, VanderWright WJ, Jabado RW, Charvet P, Mejía-Falla PA, Navia AF, Derrick DH, Kyne PM, Pollom RA, Walls RHL, Herman KB, Kinattumkara B, Cotton CF, Cuevas JM, Daley RK, Dharmadi, Ebert DA, Fernando D, Fernando SMC, Francis MP, Huveneers C, Ishihara H, Kulka DW, Leslie RW, Neat F, Orlov AM, Rincon G, Sant GJ, Volvenko IV, Walker TI, Simpfendorfer CA, Dulvy NK. Fishing for oil and meat drives irreversible defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays. Science 2024; 383:1135-1141. [PMID: 38452078 DOI: 10.1126/science.ade9121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2024]
Abstract
The deep ocean is the last natural biodiversity refuge from the reach of human activities. Deepwater sharks and rays are among the most sensitive marine vertebrates to overexploitation. One-third of threatened deepwater sharks are targeted, and half the species targeted for the international liver-oil trade are threatened with extinction. Steep population declines cannot be easily reversed owing to long generation lengths, low recovery potentials, and the near absence of management. Depth and spatial limits to fishing activity could improve conservation when implemented alongside catch regulations, bycatch mitigation, and international trade regulation. Deepwater sharks and rays require immediate trade and fishing regulations to prevent irreversible defaunation and promote recovery of this threatened megafauna group.
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- Brittany Finucci
- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Zoology, Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
- Wildlands Conservation Trust, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Elasmo Project, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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- Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sistemática, Uso e Conservação da Biodiversidade (PPGSis), Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, WCS Colombia, Cali, Colombia
- Fundación Colombiana para la Investigación y Conservación de Tiburones y Rayas -SQUALUS, Cali, Colombia
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- Fundación Colombiana para la Investigación y Conservación de Tiburones y Rayas -SQUALUS, Cali, Colombia
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Species Recovery Program, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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- Zoological Survey of India, Marine Biology Regional Centre, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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- Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Environmental Science, State University of New York-Cobleskill, Cobleskill, NY, USA
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- Wildlife Conservation Society Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
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- Horizon Consultancy, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Research Centre for Fisheries Management and Conservation, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries, Government of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Pacific Shark Research Center, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Moss Landing, CA, USA
- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa
- Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Fisheries Management Branch, Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Sciences, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
- MA-RE Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Global Ocean Institute, World Maritime University, Malmo, Sweden
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- Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Department of Ichthyology and Hydrobiology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia
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- Coordenação do Curso de Engenharia de Pesca, Universidade Federal do Maranhão-UFMA Campus Pinheiro, Pinheiro, Maranhão, Brazil
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- TRAFFIC, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
- ANCORS, University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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- Pacific Branch of Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (TINRO), Vladivostok, Russia
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- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Earth to Ocean Research Group, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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Matley JK, Klinard NV, Martins AB, Oakley-Cogan A, Huveneers C, Vandergoot CS, Fisk AT. TrackdAT, an acoustic telemetry metadata dataset to support aquatic animal tracking research. Sci Data 2024; 11:143. [PMID: 38291027 PMCID: PMC10828395 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-02969-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Data on the movement and space use of aquatic animals are crucial to understand complex interactions among biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems and facilitate effective conservation and management. Acoustic telemetry (AT) is a leading method for studying the movement ecology of aquatic animals worldwide, yet the ability to efficiently access study information from AT research is currently lacking, limiting advancements in its application. Here, we describe TrackdAT, an open-source metadata dataset where AT research parameters are catalogued to provide scientists, managers, and other stakeholders with the ability to efficiently identify and evaluate existing peer-reviewed research. Extracted metadata encompasses key information about biological and technical aspects of research, providing a comprehensive summary of existing AT research. TrackdAT currently hosts information from 2,412 journal articles published from 1969 to 2022 spanning 614 species and 380,289 tagged animals. TrackdAT has the potential to enable regional and global mobilization of knowledge, increased opportunities for collaboration, greater stakeholder engagement, and optimization of future ecological research.
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- Jordan K Matley
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia.
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2, Canada
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia
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- Great Lakes Institute for Environment Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, N9B 3P4, Canada
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Huveneers C, Blount C, Bradshaw CJA, Butcher PA, Lincoln Smith MP, Macbeth WG, McPhee DP, Moltschaniwskyj N, Peddemors VM, Green M. Shifts in the incidence of shark bites and efficacy of beach-focussed mitigation in Australia. Mar Pollut Bull 2024; 198:115855. [PMID: 38043202 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 11/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/24/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Shark-human interactions are some of the most pervasive human-wildlife conflicts, and their frequencies are increasing globally. New South Wales (Australia) was the first to implement a broad-scale program of shark-bite mitigation in 1937 using shark nets, which expanded in the late 2010s to include non-lethal measures. Using 196 unprovoked shark-human interactions recorded in New South Wales since 1900, we show that bites shifted from being predominantly on swimmers to 79 % on surfers by the 1980s and increased 2-4-fold. We could not detect differences in the interaction rate at netted versus non-netted beaches since the 2000s, partly because of low incidence and high variance. Although shark-human interactions continued to occur at beaches with tagged-shark listening stations, there were no interactions while SMART drumlines and/or drones were deployed. Our effect-size analyses show that a small increase in the difference between mitigated and non-mitigated beaches could indicate reductions in shark-human interactions. Area-based protection alone is insufficient to reduce shark-human interactions, so we propose a new, globally transferable approach to minimise risk of shark bite more effectively.
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- Charlie Huveneers
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia.
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- Stantec Australia Pty Ltd., St Leonards, New South Wales 1590, Australia
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- Global Ecology | Partuyarta Ngadluku Wardli Kuu, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Fisheries, National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales 2450, Australia; Southern Cross University, National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales 2450, Australia
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- Stantec Australia Pty Ltd., St Leonards, New South Wales 1590, Australia; Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Stantec Australia Pty Ltd., St Leonards, New South Wales 1590, Australia
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- Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4229, Australia
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- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Fisheries, Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, Nelson Bay, New South Wales 2315, Australia; School of Environmental Science, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, New South Wales 2308, Australia
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- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Fisheries, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia
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- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Fisheries, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia
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Thomas PA, Peele EE, Yopak KE, Brown C, Huveneers C, Gervais CR, Kinsey ST. Intraspecific variation in muscle growth of two distinct populations of Port Jackson sharks under projected end-of-century temperatures. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2023; 283:111467. [PMID: 37348808 PMCID: PMC10353705 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2023.111467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Revised: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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Although pervasive, the effects of climate change vary regionally, possibly resulting in differential behavioral, physiological, and/or phenotypic responses among populations within broadly distributed species. Juvenile Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) from eastern and southern Australia were reared at their current (17.6 °C Adelaide, South Australia [SA]; 20.6 °C Jervis Bay, New South Wales [NSW]) or projected end-of-century (EOC) temperatures (20.6 °C Adelaide, SA; 23.6 °C Jervis Bay, NSW) and assessed for morphological features of skeletal muscle tissue. Nearly all skeletal muscle properties including cellularity, fiber size, myonuclear domain, and satellite cell density did not differ between locations and thermal regimes. However, capillary density was significantly influenced by thermal treatment, where Adelaide sharks raised at current temperatures had a lower capillarity than Jervis Bay sharks raised at ambient or projected EOC temperatures. This may indicate higher metabolic costs at elevated temperatures. However, our results suggest that regardless of the population, juvenile Port Jackson sharks may have limited acclimatory potential to alter muscle metabolic features under a temperature increase, which may make this species vulnerable to climate change.
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- Peyton A Thomas
- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA.
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- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA
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- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Murrayland and Riverlands Landscape Board, Murray Bridge, SA, Australia
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- Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA
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Udyawer V, Huveneers C, Jaine F, Babcock RC, Brodie S, Buscot MJ, Campbell HA, Harcourt RG, Hoenner X, Lédée EJI, Simpfendorfer CA, Taylor MD, Armstrong A, Barnett A, Brown C, Bruce B, Butcher PA, Cadiou G, Couturier LIE, Currey-Randall L, Drew M, Dudgeon CL, Dwyer RG, Espinoza M, Ferreira LC, Fowler A, Harasti D, Harborne AR, Knott NA, Lee K, Lloyd M, Lowry M, Marzullo T, Matley J, McAllister JD, McAuley R, McGregor F, Meekan M, Mills K, Norman BM, Oh B, Payne NL, Peddemors V, Piddocke T, Pillans RD, Reina RD, Rogers P, Semmens JM, Smoothey A, Speed CW, van der Meulen D, Heupel MR. Scaling of Activity Space in Marine Organisms across Latitudinal Gradients. Am Nat 2023; 201:586-602. [PMID: 36958006 DOI: 10.1086/723405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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AbstractUnifying models have shown that the amount of space used by animals (e.g., activity space, home range) scales allometrically with body mass for terrestrial taxa; however, such relationships are far less clear for marine species. We compiled movement data from 1,596 individuals across 79 taxa collected using a continental passive acoustic telemetry network of acoustic receivers to assess allometric scaling of activity space. We found that ectothermic marine taxa do exhibit allometric scaling for activity space, with an overall scaling exponent of 0.64. However, body mass alone explained only 35% of the variation, with the remaining variation best explained by trophic position for teleosts and latitude for sharks, rays, and marine reptiles. Taxon-specific allometric relationships highlighted weaker scaling exponents among teleost fish species (0.07) than sharks (0.96), rays (0.55), and marine reptiles (0.57). The allometric scaling relationship and scaling exponents for the marine taxonomic groups examined were lower than those reported from studies that had collated both marine and terrestrial species data derived using various tracking methods. We propose that these disparities arise because previous work integrated summarized data across many studies that used differing methods for collecting and quantifying activity space, introducing considerable uncertainty into slope estimates. Our findings highlight the benefit of using large-scale, coordinated animal biotelemetry networks to address cross-taxa evolutionary and ecological questions.
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Nichols PD, Pethybridge HR, Zhang B, Virtue P, Meyer L, Dhurmeea Z, Marcus L, Ericson JA, Hellessey N, Every S, Wheatley K, Parrish CC, Eisenmann P, Baylis AMM, Bradshaw CJA, Bierwagen SL, Young JW, Couturier LIE, Rohner CA, Groß J, Waugh C, Phleger CF, Jackson C, Jackson G, Huveneers C, Bengtson Nash S, Brock M, Mansour P. Fatty acid profiles of more than 470 marine species from the Southern Hemisphere. Ecology 2023; 104:e3888. [PMID: 36208280 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 07/27/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
Abstract
Lipid and fatty acid datasets are commonly used to assess the nutritional composition of organisms, trophic ecology, and ecosystem dynamics. Lipids and their fatty acid constituents are essential nutrients to all forms of life because they contribute to biological processes such as energy flow and metabolism. Assessment of total lipids in tissues of organisms provides information on energy allocation and life-history strategies and can be an indicator of nutritional condition. The analysis of an organism's fatty acids is a widely used technique for assessing nutrient and energy transfer, and dietary interactions in food webs. Although there have been many published regional studies that assessed lipid and fatty acid compositions, many only report the mean values of the most abundant fatty acids. There are limited individual records available for wider use in intercomparison or macro-scale studies. This dataset consists of 4856 records of individual and pooled samples of at least 470 different marine consumer species sampled from tropical, temperate, and polar regions around Australia and in the Southern, Indian, and Pacific Oceans from 1989 to 2018. This includes data for a diverse range of taxa (zooplankton, fish, cephalopods, chondrichthyans, and marine mammals), size ranges (0.02 cm to ~13 m), and that cover a broad range of trophic positions (2.0-4.6). When known, we provide a record of species name, date of sampling, sampling location, body size, relative (%) measurements of tissue-specific total lipid content and abundant fatty acids, and absolute content (mg 100 g-1 tissue) of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n3) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n3) as important long-chain (≥C20 ) polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids. These records form a solid basis for comparative studies that will facilitate a broad understanding of the spatial and temporal distribution of marine lipids globally. The dataset also provides reference data for future dietary assessments of marine predators and model assessments of potential impacts of climate change on the availability of marine lipids and fatty acids. There are 480 data records within our data file for which the providers have requested that permission for reuse be granted, with the likely condition that they are included as a coauthor on the reporting of the dataset. Records with this condition are indicated by a "yes" under "Conditions_of_data_use" in Data S1: Marineconsumer_FAdata.csv (see Table 2 in Metadata S1 for more details). For all other data records marked as "No" under "Conditions_of_data_use," there are no copyright restrictions for research and/or teaching purposes. We request that users acknowledge use of the data in publications, research proposals, websites, and other outlets via formal citation of this work and original data sources as applicable.
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- Peter D Nichols
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Department of Biosciences and Ocean Studies, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Réduit, Mauritius.,IRD - Research Unit Marine Biodiversity, Exploitation & Conservation (MARBEC), Plouzané, France
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- IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Department of Zoology, Faculty of Natural and Oceanographic Sciences, University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.,Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Marine Environmental Consultant, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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- Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, Stanley, FIQQ1ZZ, Falkland Islands
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- Global Ecology (Partuyarta Ngadluki Wardli Kuu), College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Environmental Intégration Program, France Energies Marines, Plouzané, France
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- Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Steinkjer, Norway
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- IMAS, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.,Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
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- Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, USA
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Southern Ocean Persistent Organic Pollutants Program, Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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Andrzejaczek S, Lucas TC, Goodman MC, Hussey NE, Armstrong AJ, Carlisle A, Coffey DM, Gleiss AC, Huveneers C, Jacoby DMP, Meekan MG, Mourier J, Peel LR, Abrantes K, Afonso AS, Ajemian MJ, Anderson BN, Anderson SD, Araujo G, Armstrong AO, Bach P, Barnett A, Bennett MB, Bezerra NA, Bonfil R, Boustany AM, Bowlby HD, Branco I, Braun CD, Brooks EJ, Brown J, Burke PJ, Butcher P, Castleton M, Chapple TK, Chateau O, Clarke M, Coelho R, Cortes E, Couturier LIE, Cowley PD, Croll DA, Cuevas JM, Curtis TH, Dagorn L, Dale JJ, Daly R, Dewar H, Doherty PD, Domingo A, Dove ADM, Drew M, Dudgeon CL, Duffy CAJ, Elliott RG, Ellis JR, Erdmann MV, Farrugia TJ, Ferreira LC, Ferretti F, Filmalter JD, Finucci B, Fischer C, Fitzpatrick R, Forget F, Forsberg K, Francis MP, Franks BR, Gallagher AJ, Galvan-Magana F, García ML, Gaston TF, Gillanders BM, Gollock MJ, Green JR, Green S, Griffiths CA, Hammerschlag N, Hasan A, Hawkes LA, Hazin F, Heard M, Hearn A, Hedges KJ, Henderson SM, Holdsworth J, Holland KN, Howey LA, Hueter RE, Humphries NE, Hutchinson M, Jaine FRA, Jorgensen SJ, Kanive PE, Labaja J, Lana FO, Lassauce H, Lipscombe RS, Llewellyn F, Macena BCL, Mambrasar R, McAllister JD, McCully Phillips SR, McGregor F, McMillan MN, McNaughton LM, Mendonça SA, Meyer CG, Meyers M, Mohan JA, Montgomery JC, Mucientes G, Musyl MK, Nasby-Lucas N, Natanson LJ, O’Sullivan JB, Oliveira P, Papastamtiou YP, Patterson TA, Pierce SJ, Queiroz N, Radford CA, Richardson AJ, Richardson AJ, Righton D, Rohner CA, Royer MA, Saunders RA, Schaber M, Schallert RJ, Scholl MC, Seitz AC, Semmens JM, Setyawan E, Shea BD, Shidqi RA, Shillinger GL, Shipley ON, Shivji MS, Sianipar AB, Silva JF, Sims DW, Skomal GB, Sousa LL, Southall EJ, Spaet JLY, Stehfest KM, Stevens G, Stewart JD, Sulikowski JA, Syakurachman I, Thorrold SR, Thums M, Tickler D, Tolloti MT, Townsend KA, Travassos P, Tyminski JP, Vaudo JJ, Veras D, Wantiez L, Weber SB, Wells RD, Weng KC, Wetherbee BM, Williamson JE, Witt MJ, Wright S, Zilliacus K, Block BA, Curnick DJ. Diving into the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology. Sci Adv 2022; 8:eabo1754. [PMID: 35984887 PMCID: PMC9390984 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo1754] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Knowledge of the three-dimensional movement patterns of elasmobranchs is vital to understand their ecological roles and exposure to anthropogenic pressures. To date, comparative studies among species at global scales have mostly focused on horizontal movements. Our study addresses the knowledge gap of vertical movements by compiling the first global synthesis of vertical habitat use by elasmobranchs from data obtained by deployment of 989 biotelemetry tags on 38 elasmobranch species. Elasmobranchs displayed high intra- and interspecific variability in vertical movement patterns. Substantial vertical overlap was observed for many epipelagic elasmobranchs, indicating an increased likelihood to display spatial overlap, biologically interact, and share similar risk to anthropogenic threats that vary on a vertical gradient. We highlight the critical next steps toward incorporating vertical movement into global management and monitoring strategies for elasmobranchs, emphasizing the need to address geographic and taxonomic biases in deployments and to concurrently consider both horizontal and vertical movements.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
| | | | - Nigel E. Hussey
- Department of Integrative Biology, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
| | - Amelia J. Armstrong
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
| | - Aaron Carlisle
- School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware, Lewes, DE, USA
| | - Daniel M. Coffey
- Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
| | - Adrian C. Gleiss
- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
- Environmental and Conservation Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
| | - Charlie Huveneers
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
| | - David M. P. Jacoby
- Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
- Zoological Society of London, London, UK
| | - Mark G. Meekan
- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, WA, Australia
| | - Johann Mourier
- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- UMS 3514 Plateforme Marine Stella Mare, Université de Corse Pasquale Paoli, Biguglia, France
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- The Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Corscombe, Dorset, UK
- Save Our Seas Foundation–D’Arros Research Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University, Fort Pierce, FL, USA
| | - Brooke N. Anderson
- New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Environmental Science Program, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
- Marine Research and Conservation Foundation, Lydeard St Lawrence, Somerset, UK
| | - Asia O. Armstrong
- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
| | - Pascal Bach
- MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
- Departamento de Oceanografia e Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
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- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR)–Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
- Océanos Vivientes A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
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- Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA, USA
- Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Ascension Island Government Conservation and Fisheries Department, Georgetown, Ascension Island, UK
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries–Fisheries Research, National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
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- Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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- Laboratory of Marine Biology and Ecology, Aquarium des Lagons, Nouméa, New Caledonia
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- Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere, I.P. (IPMA), Olhão, Algarve, Portugal
- Centre of Marine Sciences of the Algarve, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Algarve, Portugal
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- Southeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, Panama City, FL, USA
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- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Wildlife Conservation Society Argentina, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- División Zoología de Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Management Division, NOAA Fisheries, Gloucester, MA, USA
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- MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
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- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa
- Oceanographic Research Institute, Durban, South Africa
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- Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Laboratorio de Recursos Pelágicos, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos (DINARA), Montevideo, Uruguay
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- SARDI Aquatic Sciences, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia
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- Institute of Marine Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
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- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
- Alaska Ocean Observing System, Anchorage, AK, USA
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, WA, Australia
| | - Francesco Ferretti
- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
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- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Makhanda, South Africa
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand
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- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, QLD, Australia
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- MARBEC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), Wellington, New Zealand
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- Marine Science Research Institute, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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- Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico
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- Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de la Plata, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- College of Engineering, Science and Environment, University of Newcastle, Ourimbah, NSW, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Galapagos Whale Shark Project, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
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- Galapagos Whale Shark Project, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, School of Biosciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil, Sweden
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- Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA
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- Yayasan Konservasi Indonesia, Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia
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- College of Life and Environmental Science, Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- SARDI Aquatic Sciences, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Conservation and Wildlife Branch, Department for Environment and Water, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Migramar, Forest Knolls, CA, USA
- Galapagos Whale Shark Project, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos, Ecuador
- Galapagos Science Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Haiti Ocean Project, Petite Riviere de Nippes, Haiti
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- OCEARCH, Park City, UT, USA
- Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, USA
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
- Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, NSW, Australia
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Jagna, Bohol, Philippines
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- The Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Corscombe, Dorset, UK
- ISEA, University of New Caledonia, Nouméa, New Caledonia
- Conservation International New Caledonia, Nouméa, New Caledonia
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- National Marine Science Centre, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
- Okeanos Centre, University of the Azores, Horta, Faial, Portugal
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, WA, Australia
| | - John A. Mohan
- School of Marine and Environmental Programs, University of New England, Biddeford, ME, USA
| | - John C. Montgomery
- Institute of Marine Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Instituto de Investigacions Marinas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Vigo, Galicia, Spain
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Vairao, Portugal
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- Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- Institute of the Environment, Department of Biological Science, Florida International University, North Miami, FL, USA
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- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Universidade do Porto, Vairao, Portugal
- BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, Vairao, Portugal
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- Institute of Marine Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
| | - Andy J. Richardson
- Ascension Island Government Conservation and Fisheries Department, Georgetown, Ascension Island, UK
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- School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, St Lucia, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
- School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Kaneohe, HI, USA
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- Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation, Bimini, The Bahamas
- IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group, Gland, Vaud, Switzerland
- Aquarium-Muséum Universitaire de Liège, University of Liège, Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
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- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, USA
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- The Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Corscombe, Dorset, UK
- Institute of Marine Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
- Beneath the Waves, Herndon, VA, USA
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- Coastal Science and Policy Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Thresher Shark Project Indonesia, Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
- Migramar, Forest Knolls, CA, USA
- Upwell, Monterey, CA, USA
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- Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA, Australia
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
| | - David W. Sims
- The Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK
- Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
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- The Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Corscombe, Dorset, UK
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- The Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Corscombe, Dorset, UK
- Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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- New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- Marine Futures Lab, School of Biological Science, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia
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- School of Science, Technology and Engineering, The University of the Sunshine Coast, Hervey Bay, QLD, Australia
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- Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
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- OCEARCH, Park City, UT, USA
- Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, USA
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- Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
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- Unidade Acadêmica de Serra Talhada, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Serra Talhada, PE, Brazil
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- Ascension Island Government Conservation and Fisheries Department, Georgetown, Ascension Island, UK
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
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- Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Fisheries Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, Gloucester Point, VA, USA
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- Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK
- College of Life and Environmental Science, Hatherly Laboratories, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, USA
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Riley M, Meagher P, Huveneers C, Leto J, Peddemors VM, Slip D, West J, Bradshaw CJA. The Australian Shark-Incident Database for quantifying temporal and spatial patterns of shark-human conflict. Sci Data 2022; 9:378. [PMID: 35794151 PMCID: PMC9259633 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01453-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
Abstract
We describe the Australian Shark-Incident Database, formerly known as the Australian Shark-Attack File, which contains comprehensive reports of 1,196 shark bites that have occurred in Australia over 231 years (1791–2022). Data were collated by the Taronga Conservation Society Australia using purpose-designed questionnaires provided to shark-bite victims or witnesses, media reports, and information provided by the department responsible for fisheries in each Australian state (including the Northern Territory). The dataset includes provoked and unprovoked bites from fresh, brackish, and marine waters in Australia. Data span 22 suspected shark species. This dataset will be publicly available, and can be used by analysts to decipher environmental, biological, and social patterns of shark bites in Australia. The information will aid scientists, conservationists, authorities, and members of the public to make informed decisions when implementing or selecting mitigation measures. Measurement(s) | Shark bite incidents | Technology Type(s) | survey | Factor Type(s) | none | Sample Characteristic - Organism | Elasmobranchii | Sample Characteristic - Environment | ocean | Sample Characteristic - Location | Australia |
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Bosch NE, Monk J, Goetze J, Wilson S, Babcock RC, Barrett N, Clough J, Currey‐Randall LM, Fairclough DV, Fisher R, Gibbons BA, Harasti D, Harvey ES, Heupel MR, Hicks JL, Holmes TH, Huveneers C, Ierodiaconou D, Jordan A, Knott NA, Malcolm HA, McLean D, Meekan M, Newman SJ, Radford B, Rees MJ, Saunders BJ, Speed CW, Travers MJ, Wakefield CB, Wernberg T, Langlois TJ. Effects of human footprint and biophysical factors on the body-size structure of fished marine species. Conserv Biol 2022; 36:e13807. [PMID: 34312893 PMCID: PMC9292308 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13807] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2021] [Revised: 04/29/2021] [Accepted: 06/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Marine fisheries in coastal ecosystems in many areas of the world have historically removed large-bodied individuals, potentially impairing ecosystem functioning and the long-term sustainability of fish populations. Reporting on size-based indicators that link to food-web structure can contribute to ecosystem-based management, but the application of these indicators over large (cross-ecosystem) geographical scales has been limited to either fisheries-dependent catch data or diver-based methods restricted to shallow waters (<20 m) that can misrepresent the abundance of large-bodied fished species. We obtained data on the body-size structure of 82 recreationally or commercially targeted marine demersal teleosts from 2904 deployments of baited remote underwater stereo-video (stereo-BRUV). Sampling was at up to 50 m depth and covered approximately 10,000 km of the continental shelf of Australia. Seascape relief, water depth, and human gravity (i.e., a proxy of human impacts) were the strongest predictors of the probability of occurrence of large fishes and the abundance of fishes above the minimum legal size of capture. No-take marine reserves had a positive effect on the abundance of fishes above legal size, although the effect varied across species groups. In contrast, sublegal fishes were best predicted by gradients in sea surface temperature (mean and variance). In areas of low human impact, large fishes were about three times more likely to be encountered and fishes of legal size were approximately five times more abundant. For conspicuous species groups with contrasting habitat, environmental, and biogeographic affinities, abundance of legal-size fishes typically declined as human impact increased. Our large-scale quantitative analyses highlight the combined importance of seascape complexity, regions with low human footprint, and no-take marine reserves in protecting large-bodied fishes across a broad range of species and ecosystem configurations.
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- Nestor E. Bosch
- The School of Biological SciencesThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTasmaniaAustralia
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- Marine Science Program, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of BiodiversityConservation and AttractionsKensingtonWestern AustraliaAustralia
- School of Molecular and Life SciencesCurtin UniversityPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Marine Science Program, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of BiodiversityConservation and AttractionsKensingtonWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTasmaniaAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentGovernment of Western AustraliaNorth BeachWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Australian Institute of Marine ScienceIndian Ocean Marine Research CentreCrawleyWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- The School of Biological SciencesThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries ResearchPort Stephens Fisheries InstituteTaylors BeachNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Molecular and Life SciencesCurtin UniversityPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Australian Institute of Marine ScienceTownsvilleQueenslandAustralia
- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)University of TasmaniaHobartTasmaniaAustralia
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- Department for Environment and WaterMarine ScienceAdelaideSouth AustraliaAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Marine Science Program, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Department of BiodiversityConservation and AttractionsKensingtonWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- College of Science and EngineeringFlinders UniversityBedford ParkSouth AustraliaAustralia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative EcologyDeakin UniversityWarrnamboolVictoriaAustralia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesUniversity of TasmaniaHobartTasmaniaAustralia
- NSW Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries ResearchPort Stephens Fisheries InstituteTaylors BeachNew South WalesAustralia
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- Fisheries ResearchNSW Department of Primary IndustriesCoffs HarbourNew South WalesAustralia
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- Fisheries ResearchNSW Department of Primary IndustriesCoffs HarbourNew South WalesAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Australian Institute of Marine ScienceIndian Ocean Marine Research CentreCrawleyWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Australian Institute of Marine ScienceIndian Ocean Marine Research CentreCrawleyWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentGovernment of Western AustraliaNorth BeachWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Australian Institute of Marine ScienceIndian Ocean Marine Research CentreCrawleyWestern AustraliaAustralia
- School of Agriculture and EnvironmentThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Fisheries ResearchNSW Department of Primary IndustriesCoffs HarbourNew South WalesAustralia
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- School of Molecular and Life SciencesCurtin UniversityPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Australian Institute of Marine ScienceIndian Ocean Marine Research CentreCrawleyWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentGovernment of Western AustraliaNorth BeachWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories, Department of Primary Industries and Regional DevelopmentGovernment of Western AustraliaNorth BeachWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- The School of Biological SciencesThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- Institute of Marine ResearchHisNorway
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- The School of Biological SciencesThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
- The UWA Oceans InstituteThe University of Western AustraliaPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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Le Croizier G, Sonke JE, Lorrain A, Renedo M, Hoyos-Padilla M, Santana-Morales O, Meyer L, Huveneers C, Butcher P, Amezcua-Martinez F, Point D. Foraging plasticity diversifies mercury exposure sources and bioaccumulation patterns in the world's largest predatory fish. J Hazard Mater 2022; 425:127956. [PMID: 34986563 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/28/2021] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
Abstract
Large marine predators exhibit high concentrations of mercury (Hg) as neurotoxic methylmercury, and the potential impacts of global change on Hg contamination in these species remain highly debated. Current contaminant model predictions do not account for intraspecific variability in Hg exposure and may fail to reflect the diversity of future Hg levels among conspecific populations or individuals, especially for top predators displaying a wide range of ecological traits. Here, we used Hg isotopic compositions to show that Hg exposure sources varied significantly between and within three populations of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) with contrasting ecology: the north-eastern Pacific, eastern Australasian, and south-western Australasian populations. Through Δ200Hg signatures in shark tissues, we found that atmospheric Hg deposition pathways to the marine environment differed between coastal and offshore habitats. Discrepancies in δ202Hg and Δ199Hg signatures among white sharks provided evidence for intraspecific exposure to distinct sources of marine methylmercury, attributed to population and ontogenetic shifts in foraging habitat and prey composition. We finally observed a strong divergence in Hg accumulation rates between populations, leading to three times higher Hg concentrations in large Australasian sharks compared to north-eastern Pacific sharks, and likely due to different trophic strategies adopted by adult sharks across populations. This study illustrates the variety of Hg exposure sources and bioaccumulation patterns that can be found within a single species and suggests that intraspecific variability needs to be considered when assessing future trajectories of Hg levels in marine predators.
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- Gaël Le Croizier
- UMR Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Observatoire Midi Pyrénées (OMP), 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France; Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Joel Montes Camarena S/N, Mazatlán, Sin 82040, Mexico.
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- UMR Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Observatoire Midi Pyrénées (OMP), 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, F-29280 Plouzané, France
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- UMR Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Observatoire Midi Pyrénées (OMP), 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
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- Pelagios-Kakunjá A.C, Sinaloa 1540, Col. Las Garzas, C.P. 23070 La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico; Fins Attached: Marine Research and Conservation, 19675 Still Glen Drive, Colorado Springs, CO 80908, USA
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia; Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries, National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450, Australia
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- Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Av. Joel Montes Camarena S/N, Mazatlán, Sin 82040, Mexico
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- UMR Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Observatoire Midi Pyrénées (OMP), 14 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
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Niella Y, Simes B, Fox A, Wright A, Waller M, Riley M, Meyer L, Drew M, Pederson H, Huveneers C. Short-term response of research activities on white shark behaviour. Wildl Res 2022. [DOI: 10.1071/wr22004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Grace MK, Akçakaya HR, Bennett EL, Brooks TM, Heath A, Hedges S, Hilton-Taylor C, Hoffmann M, Hochkirch A, Jenkins R, Keith DA, Long B, Mallon DP, Meijaard E, Milner-Gulland EJ, Rodriguez JP, Stephenson PJ, Stuart SN, Young RP, Acebes P, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Alvarez-Clare S, Andriantsimanarilafy RR, Arbetman M, Azat C, Bacchetta G, Badola R, Barcelos LMD, Barreiros JP, Basak S, Berger DJ, Bhattacharyya S, Bino G, Borges PAV, Boughton RK, Brockmann HJ, Buckley HL, Burfield IJ, Burton J, Camacho-Badani T, Cano-Alonso LS, Carmichael RH, Carrero C, Carroll JP, Catsadorakis G, Chapple DG, Chapron G, Chowdhury GW, Claassens L, Cogoni D, Constantine R, Craig CA, Cunningham AA, Dahal N, Daltry JC, Das GC, Dasgupta N, Davey A, Davies K, Develey P, Elangovan V, Fairclough D, Febbraro MD, Fenu G, Fernandes FM, Fernandez EP, Finucci B, Földesi R, Foley CM, Ford M, Forstner MRJ, García N, Garcia-Sandoval R, Gardner PC, Garibay-Orijel R, Gatan-Balbas M, Gauto I, Ghazi MGU, Godfrey SS, Gollock M, González BA, Grant TD, Gray T, Gregory AJ, van Grunsven RHA, Gryzenhout M, Guernsey NC, Gupta G, Hagen C, Hagen CA, Hall MB, Hallerman E, Hare K, Hart T, Hartdegen R, Harvey-Brown Y, Hatfield R, Hawke T, Hermes C, Hitchmough R, Hoffmann PM, Howarth C, Hudson MA, Hussain SA, Huveneers C, Jacques H, Jorgensen D, Katdare S, Katsis LKD, Kaul R, Kaunda-Arara B, Keith-Diagne L, Kraus DT, de Lima TM, Lindeman K, Linsky J, Louis E, Loy A, Lughadha EN, Mangel JC, Marinari PE, Martin GM, Martinelli G, McGowan PJK, McInnes A, Teles Barbosa Mendes E, Millard MJ, Mirande C, Money D, Monks JM, Morales CL, Mumu NN, Negrao R, Nguyen AH, Niloy MNH, Norbury GL, Nordmeyer C, Norris D, O'Brien M, Oda GA, Orsenigo S, Outerbridge ME, Pasachnik S, Pérez-Jiménez JC, Pike C, Pilkington F, Plumb G, Portela RDCQ, Prohaska A, Quintana MG, Rakotondrasoa EF, Ranglack DH, Rankou H, Rawat AP, Reardon JT, Rheingantz ML, Richter SC, Rivers MC, Rogers LR, da Rosa P, Rose P, Royer E, Ryan C, de Mitcheson YJS, Salmon L, Salvador CH, Samways MJ, Sanjuan T, Souza Dos Santos A, Sasaki H, Schutz E, Scott HA, Scott RM, Serena F, Sharma SP, Shuey JA, Silva CJP, Simaika JP, Smith DR, Spaet JLY, Sultana S, Talukdar BK, Tatayah V, Thomas P, Tringali A, Trinh-Dinh H, Tuboi C, Usmani AA, Vasco-Palacios AM, Vié JC, Virens J, Walker A, Wallace B, Waller LJ, Wang H, Wearn OR, van Weerd M, Weigmann S, Willcox D, Woinarski J, Yong JWH, Young S. Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact. Conserv Biol 2021; 35:1833-1849. [PMID: 34289517 DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 04/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
Abstract
Recognizing the imperative to evaluate species recovery and conservation impact, in 2012 the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) called for development of a "Green List of Species" (now the IUCN Green Status of Species). A draft Green Status framework for assessing species' progress toward recovery, published in 2018, proposed 2 separate but interlinked components: a standardized method (i.e., measurement against benchmarks of species' viability, functionality, and preimpact distribution) to determine current species recovery status (herein species recovery score) and application of that method to estimate past and potential future impacts of conservation based on 4 metrics (conservation legacy, conservation dependence, conservation gain, and recovery potential). We tested the framework with 181 species representing diverse taxa, life histories, biomes, and IUCN Red List categories (extinction risk). Based on the observed distribution of species' recovery scores, we propose the following species recovery categories: fully recovered, slightly depleted, moderately depleted, largely depleted, critically depleted, extinct in the wild, and indeterminate. Fifty-nine percent of tested species were considered largely or critically depleted. Although there was a negative relationship between extinction risk and species recovery score, variation was considerable. Some species in lower risk categories were assessed as farther from recovery than those at higher risk. This emphasizes that species recovery is conceptually different from extinction risk and reinforces the utility of the IUCN Green Status of Species to more fully understand species conservation status. Although extinction risk did not predict conservation legacy, conservation dependence, or conservation gain, it was positively correlated with recovery potential. Only 1.7% of tested species were categorized as zero across all 4 of these conservation impact metrics, indicating that conservation has, or will, play a role in improving or maintaining species status for the vast majority of these species. Based on our results, we devised an updated assessment framework that introduces the option of using a dynamic baseline to assess future impacts of conservation over the short term to avoid misleading results which were generated in a small number of cases, and redefines short term as 10 years to better align with conservation planning. These changes are reflected in the IUCN Green Status of Species Standard.
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- Molly K Grace
- Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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- International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland
- World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Philippines
- Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, New York, USA
- IUCN SSC Asian Elephant Specialist Group, Noida, India
- IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, Chester, UK
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela
- Conservation Programmes, Zoological Society of London, London, UK
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- Department of Biogeography, Trier University, Trier, Germany
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela
- Centre for Ecosystem Sciences, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia
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- Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
- IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group, Manchester, UK
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- IUCN SSC Wild Pig Specialist Group and Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela
- Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, and Provita, Caracas, Venezuela
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- IUCN SSC Species Monitoring Specialist Group, Gingins, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Conservation Biology, Department of Ecology & Evolution, UNIL - University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- IUCN Species Survival Commission, Caracas, Venezuela
- Synchronicity Earth, London, UK
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- Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Departamento de Ecología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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- Grupo Ecología de la Polinización, INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Sustainability Research Centre & PhD Programme in Conservation Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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- Centre for Conservation of Biodiversity, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Azorean Biodiversity Group, Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of the Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
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- Universidade dos Açores, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e do Ambiente, Rua Capitão João d'Ávila, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal
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- School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente Universidade dos Açores, Azores, Portugal
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- Range Cattle Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, Cedar House, Chester, UK
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- University of Nebraska, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Centro Conservazione Biodiversità, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- School of Biological Sciences & Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Endangered Wildlife Trust, Office 8 & 9, Centre for Biodiversity Conservation, Cape Town, South Africa
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- CSIR-Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology, Palampur, India
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- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Department of Fisheries, Hillarys, Western Australia, Australia
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Centro Conservazione Biodiversità, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Kaneohe, Hawai'i, USA
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- Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany
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- Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, Mexico
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- Danau Girang Field Centre, c/o Sabah Wildlife Department, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
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- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Tercer Circuito s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, México
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- Asociación Etnobotánica Paraguaya, Lambaré, Paraguay
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- Laboratorio de Ecología de Vida Silvestre, Facultad de Ciencias Forestales y de la Conservación de la Naturaleza, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research, San Diego, California, USA
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- Bowling Green State University, School of Earth Environment and Society, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Genetics, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
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- World Wildlife Fund Inc., Northern Great Plains Program, Bozeman, Montana, USA
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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- Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA
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- Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
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- Urban Wildlife Trust, Wellington/Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Department of Zoology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK
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- The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, Oregon, USA
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- University of New South Wales, Centre for Ecosystem Science, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
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- Department of Conservation-Te Papa Atawhai, Wellington, New Zealand
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- World Wildlife Fund Inc., Northern Great Plains Program, Bozeman, Montana, USA
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- Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Abingdon, UK
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- Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Eldoret, Eldoret, Kenya
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- University of Waterloo, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Florida Institute of Technology, Program in Sustainability Studies, Melbourne, Florida, USA
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK
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- Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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- Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Pesche, Italy
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- Carrera de Biologia Marina, Universidad Cientifica del Sur, Lima, Peru
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- Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, USA
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- Centro de Investigación Esquel de Montaña y Estepa Patagónica, CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- National Center for Flora Conservation (CNCFlora), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK
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- Seabird Conservation Programme, BirdLife South Africa, Foreshore, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Grupo Ecología de la Polinización, INIBIOMA, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, CONICET, Bariloche, Argentina
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- Fauna & Flora International - Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- School of Environmental Sciences, Federal University of Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
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- BirdLife International Pacific Regional Office, Suva, Fiji
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- Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro - UFRRJ, Department of Environmental Sciences, Forestry Institute, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università di Pavia; Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Centro Conservazione Biodiversità, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- US National Park Service, Livingston, Montana, USA
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- GeoGenetics Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Invertebrates, Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- IUCN SSC Orchid Specialist Group, Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, UK
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- Department of Conservation, New Zealand, Fiordland District Office, Te Anau, New Zealand
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Laboratório de Ecologia e Conservação de Populações, Centro de Ciências da Saúde - Instituto de Biologia, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
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- Division of Natural Areas and Department of Biological Sciences, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky, USA
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- Botanic Gardens Conservation International, Richmond, UK
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- National Center for Flora Conservation (CNCFlora), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Auckland University of Technology, School of Science, Auckland City, New Zealand
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- Nottingham Trent University, Brackenhurst Campus, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, UK
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- Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Health Science Centre, Biology Institute, Plant Ecology Laboratory, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- D'ABOVILLE Foundation and Demo Farm Inc, Makati, Philippines
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- Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnology, National Research Council-(CNR -IRBIM), Mazara del Vallo, Italy
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- The Nature Conservancy, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Ingeniería, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, Colombia
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- Department of Water Resources and Ecosystems, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands
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- U.S. Geological Survey, Kearneysville, West Virginia, USA
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- Evolutionary Ecology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Grupo de Microbiología Ambiental - BioMicro, Escuela de Microbiología, Universidad de Antioquia, UdeA, Medellín, Colombia
- Fundación Biodiversa Colombia, FBC, Bogotá, Colombia
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- University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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- Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK
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- Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, Cape Town, South Africa
- Department of Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, University of the Western Cape, Belville, South Africa
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- Fauna & Flora International - Vietnam Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands
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- Elasmo-Lab, Elasmobranch Research Laboratory, Hamburg, Germany
- Center of Natural History, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Save Vietnam's Wildlife, Cuc Phuong National Park, Ninh Bình Province, Vietnam
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- Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Northern Territory, Australia
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- Department of Biosystems and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden
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- IUCN SSC Asian Wild Cattle Specialist Group, Cedar House, Chester, UK
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Bates AE, Primack RB, Biggar BS, Bird TJ, Clinton ME, Command RJ, Richards C, Shellard M, Geraldi NR, Vergara V, Acevedo-Charry O, Colón-Piñeiro Z, Ocampo D, Ocampo-Peñuela N, Sánchez-Clavijo LM, Adamescu CM, Cheval S, Racoviceanu T, Adams MD, Kalisa E, Kuuire VZ, Aditya V, Anderwald P, Wiesmann S, Wipf S, Badihi G, Henderson MG, Loetscher H, Baerenfaller K, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Bulleri F, Bertocci I, Maggi E, Rindi L, Ravaglioli C, Boerder K, Bonnel J, Mathias D, Archambault P, Chauvaud L, Braun CD, Thorrold SR, Brownscombe JW, Midwood JD, Boston CM, Brooks JL, Cooke SJ, China V, Roll U, Belmaker J, Zvuloni A, Coll M, Ortega M, Connors B, Lacko L, Jayathilake DRM, Costello MJ, Crimmins TM, Barnett L, Denny EG, Gerst KL, Marsh RL, Posthumus EE, Rodriguez R, Rosemartin A, Schaffer SN, Switzer JR, Wong K, Cunningham SJ, Sumasgutner P, Amar A, Thomson RL, Stofberg M, Hofmeyr S, Suri J, Stuart-Smith RD, Day PB, Edgar GJ, Cooper AT, De Leo FC, Garner G, Des Brisay PG, Schrimpf MB, Koper N, Diamond MS, Dwyer RG, Baker CJ, Franklin CE, Efrat R, Berger-Tal O, Hatzofe O, Eguíluz VM, Rodríguez JP, Fernández-Gracia J, Elustondo D, Calatayud V, English PA, Archer SK, Dudas SE, Haggarty DR, Gallagher AJ, Shea BD, Shipley ON, Gilby BL, Ballantyne J, Olds AD, Henderson CJ, Schlacher TA, Halliday WD, Brown NAW, Woods MB, Balshine S, Juanes F, Rider MJ, Albano PS, Hammerschlag N, Hays GC, Esteban N, Pan Y, He G, Tanaka T, Hensel MJS, Orth RJ, Patrick CJ, Hentati-Sundberg J, Olsson O, Hessing-Lewis ML, Higgs ND, Hindell MA, McMahon CR, Harcourt R, Guinet C, Hirsch SE, Perrault JR, Hoover SR, Reilly JD, Hobaiter C, Gruber T, Huveneers C, Udyawer V, Clarke TM, Kroesen LP, Hik DS, Cherry SG, Del Bel Belluz JA, Jackson JM, Lai S, Lamb CT, LeClair GD, Parmelee JR, Chatfield MWH, Frederick CA, Lee S, Park H, Choi J, LeTourneux F, Grandmont T, de-Broin FD, Bêty J, Gauthier G, Legagneux P, Lewis JS, Haight J, Liu Z, Lyon JP, Hale R, D'Silva D, MacGregor-Fors I, Arbeláez-Cortés E, Estela FA, Sánchez-Sarria CE, García-Arroyo M, Aguirre-Samboní GK, Franco Morales JC, Malamud S, Gavriel T, Buba Y, Salingré S, Lazarus M, Yahel R, Ari YB, Miller E, Sade R, Lavian G, Birman Z, Gury M, Baz H, Baskin I, Penn A, Dolev A, Licht O, Karkom T, Davidzon S, Berkovitch A, Yaakov O, Manenti R, Mori E, Ficetola GF, Lunghi E, March D, Godley BJ, Martin C, Mihaly SF, Barclay DR, Thomson DJM, Dewey R, Bedard J, Miller A, Dearden A, Chapman J, Dares L, Borden L, Gibbs D, Schultz J, Sergeenko N, Francis F, Weltman A, Moity N, Ramírez-González J, Mucientes G, Alonso-Fernández A, Namir I, Bar-Massada A, Chen R, Yedvab S, Okey TA, Oppel S, Arkumarev V, Bakari S, Dobrev V, Saravia-Mullin V, Bounas A, Dobrev D, Kret E, Mengistu S, Pourchier C, Ruffo A, Tesfaye M, Wondafrash M, Nikolov SC, Palmer C, Sileci L, Rex PT, Lowe CG, Peters F, Pine MK, Radford CA, Wilson L, McWhinnie L, Scuderi A, Jeffs AG, Prudic KL, Larrivée M, McFarland KP, Solis R, Hutchinson RA, Queiroz N, Furtado MA, Sims DW, Southall E, Quesada-Rodriguez CA, Diaz-Orozco JP, Rodgers KS, Severino SJL, Graham AT, Stefanak MP, Madin EMP, Ryan PG, Maclean K, Weideman EA, Şekercioğlu ÇH, Kittelberger KD, Kusak J, Seminoff JA, Hanna ME, Shimada T, Meekan MG, Smith MKS, Mokhatla MM, Soh MCK, Pang RYT, Ng BXK, Lee BPYH, Loo AHB, Er KBH, Souza GBG, Stallings CD, Curtis JS, Faletti ME, Peake JA, Schram MJ, Wall KR, Terry C, Rothendler M, Zipf L, Ulloa JS, Hernández-Palma A, Gómez-Valencia B, Cruz-Rodríguez C, Herrera-Varón Y, Roa M, Rodríguez-Buriticá S, Ochoa-Quintero JM, Vardi R, Vázquez V, Requena-Mesa C, Warrington MH, Taylor ME, Woodall LC, Stefanoudis PV, Zhang X, Yang Q, Zukerman Y, Sigal Z, Ayali A, Clua EEG, Carzon P, Seguine C, Corradini A, Pedrotti L, Foley CM, Gagnon CA, Panipakoochoo E, Milanes CB, Botero CM, Velázquez YR, Milchakova NA, Morley SA, Martin SM, Nanni V, Otero T, Wakeling J, Abarro S, Piou C, Sobral AFL, Soto EH, Weigel EG, Bernal-Ibáñez A, Gestoso I, Cacabelos E, Cagnacci F, Devassy RP, Loretto MC, Moraga P, Rutz C, Duarte CM. Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment. Biol Conserv 2021; 263:109175. [PMID: 34035536 PMCID: PMC8135229 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
The global lockdown to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic health risks has altered human interactions with nature. Here, we report immediate impacts of changes in human activities on wildlife and environmental threats during the early lockdown months of 2020, based on 877 qualitative reports and 332 quantitative assessments from 89 different studies. Hundreds of reports of unusual species observations from around the world suggest that animals quickly responded to the reductions in human presence. However, negative effects of lockdown on conservation also emerged, as confinement resulted in some park officials being unable to perform conservation, restoration and enforcement tasks, resulting in local increases in illegal activities such as hunting. Overall, there is a complex mixture of positive and negative effects of the pandemic lockdown on nature, all of which have the potential to lead to cascading responses which in turn impact wildlife and nature conservation. While the net effect of the lockdown will need to be assessed over years as data becomes available and persistent effects emerge, immediate responses were detected across the world. Thus, initial qualitative and quantitative data arising from this serendipitous global quasi-experimental perturbation highlights the dual role that humans play in threatening and protecting species and ecosystems. Pathways to favorably tilt this delicate balance include reducing impacts and increasing conservation effectiveness.
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- Amanda E Bates
- Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 0 Marine Lab Road, St. John's A1K 3E6, Canada
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- Biology Department, Boston University, 881 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, United States
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- Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 0 Marine Lab Road, St. John's A1K 3E6, Canada
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- Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, 80 E White Hills Rd, St. John's A1A 5J7, Canada
| | - Mary E Clinton
- Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 0 Marine Lab Road, St. John's A1K 3E6, Canada
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- School of Ocean Technology, Fisheries and Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 155 Ridge Rd, St. John's, NL A1C 5R3, Canada
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- Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 0 Marine Lab Road, St. John's A1K 3E6, Canada
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- Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 23955 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Red Sea Research Center and Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 23955 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
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- Ocean Wise Conservation Association, 845 Avison Way, Vancouver V6B 3X8, Canada
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- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Claustro de San Agustín, Villa de Leyva, Boyacá, Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Avenida Paseo Bolívar 16-20, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Avenida Paseo Bolívar 16-20, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
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- Research Center for Systems Ecology and Sustainability, University of Bucharest, 050095 Bucharest, Romania
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- National Meteorological Administration, 013686 Bucharest, Romania
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- Research Center for Systems Ecology and Sustainability, University of Bucharest, 050095 Bucharest, Romania
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- Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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- Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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- Department of Geography, Geomatics and Environment, University of Toronto, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
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- Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, PO, Royal Enclave, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560064, India
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- Swiss National Park, Chastè Planta-Wildenberg, Runatsch 124, 7530 Zernez, Switzerland
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- Swiss National Park, Chastè Planta-Wildenberg, Runatsch 124, 7530 Zernez, Switzerland
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- Swiss National Park, Chastè Planta-Wildenberg, Runatsch 124, 7530 Zernez, Switzerland
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- Origins of Mind, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Marys Quad, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Origins of Mind, School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Marys Quad, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Office for Nature and Environment of the Grisons, Ringstrasse 10, 7001 Chur, Switzerland
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- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), 7265 Davos, Switzerland
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Derna 1, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Derna 1, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Derna 1, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Via Derna 1, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
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- Biology Department, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada
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- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Société d'Observation Multi-Modale de l'Environnement, 115 Rue Claude Chappe, 29280 Plouzané, France
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
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- Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, Ontario L7S 1A1, Canada
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- Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Am V'Olamo 3, 95463 Jerusalem, Israel
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- USA National Phenology Network, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1200 E. University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- USA National Phenology Network, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1200 E. University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- USA National Phenology Network, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, 1200 E. University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Core Facility Konrad Lorenz Research Center for Behaviour and Cognition, University of Vienna, Fischerau 11, A-4645 Grünau im Almtal, Austria
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Carijoa - Marine Environmental Consulting, 29 Sydenham Street, Rivervale, Perth, Western Australia 6103, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Ocean Networks Canada, University of Victoria, Canada
- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Victoria, 3800 Finnerty Road, Victoria, BC V8P 5C2, Canada
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- Environment and Climate Change Canada, 150-123 Main St, Winnipeg, MB R3C 4W2, Canada
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- Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 66 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, 66 Chancellors Cir, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada
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- School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
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- Science Division, Israel Nature and Parks Authority, Am V'Olamo 3, 95463 Jerusalem, Israel
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- Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), E07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Instituto de Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (BIOMA), Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona 31080, Spain
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- Fundación CEAM, C/Charles R. Darwin 14, Parque Tecnológico, Paterna, Valencia 46980, Spain
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- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, 3190 Hammond Bay Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7, Canada
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- Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, 8124 LA-56, Chauvin, LA 70344, United States
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- Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station, 3190 Hammond Bay Rd, Nanaimo, BC V9T 6N7, Canada
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- School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore DC, Queensland 4558, Australia
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- Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, P.O. Box 606, 202 B Ave, Kaslo, British Columbia V0G 1M0, Canada
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Ryan LA, Slip DJ, Chapuis L, Collin SP, Gennari E, Hemmi JM, How MJ, Huveneers C, Peddemors VM, Tosetto L, Hart NS. A shark's eye view: testing the 'mistaken identity theory' behind shark bites on humans. J R Soc Interface 2021; 18:20210533. [PMID: 34699727 PMCID: PMC8548079 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2021.0533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Shark bites on humans are rare but are sufficiently frequent to generate substantial public concern, which typically leads to measures to reduce their frequency. Unfortunately, we understand little about why sharks bite humans. One theory for bites occurring at the surface, e.g. on surfers, is that of mistaken identity, whereby sharks mistake humans for their typical prey (pinnipeds in the case of white sharks). This study tests the mistaken identity theory by comparing video footage of pinnipeds, humans swimming and humans paddling surfboards, from the perspective of a white shark viewing these objects from below. Videos were processed to reflect how a shark's retina would detect the visual motion and shape cues. Motion cues of humans swimming, humans paddling surfboards and pinnipeds swimming did not differ significantly. The shape of paddled surfboards and human swimmers was also similar to that of pinnipeds with their flippers abducted. The difference in shape between pinnipeds with abducted versus adducted flippers was bigger than between pinnipeds with flippers abducted and surfboards or human swimmers. From the perspective of a white shark, therefore, neither visual motion nor shape cues allow an unequivocal visual distinction between pinnipeds and humans, supporting the mistaken identity theory behind some bites.
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- Laura A Ryan
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Bradley's Head Road, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia
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- Biosciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QD, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086, Australia
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- Oceans Research Institute, Mossel Bay 6500, South Africa.,South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.,Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa
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- School of Biological Sciences and The UWA Oceans Institute, M092, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, Australia
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- New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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Abrantes K, Barnett A, Soetaert M, Kyne PM, Laird A, Squire L, Seymour J, Wueringer BE, Sleeman J, Huveneers C. Potential of electric fields to reduce bycatch of highly threatened sawfishes. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2021. [DOI: 10.3354/esr01146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Sawfishes are among the most threatened families of marine fishes and are susceptible to incidental capture in net fisheries. Since bycatch reduction devices currently used in trawl fisheries are not effective at reducing sawfish catches, new methods to minimise sawfish bycatch are needed. Ideally, these should affect sawfish behaviour and prevent contact with the fishing gear. We tested the effects of electric fields on sawfish behaviour to assess the potential of electric pulses in mitigating sawfish bycatch. Experiments were conducted in a tank where 2 electrodes were suspended in the water column, connected to a pulse generator, and placed across the swimming path of sawfish. Two largetooth sawfish Pristis pristis were tested in control conditions, in the presence of a baseline pulse, and of 5 variations of that pulse where 1 parameter (polarity, voltage, frequency, pulse shape, pulse duration) was altered at a time. Conditional inference trees were used to identify the effects of various parameters (e.g. treatment, individual) on reaction type, reaction distance, twitching presence and duration, and inter-approach times. Sawfish reacted to electric fields, but reaction distances were small (typically <1.2 m), and no field tested consistently led to reactions conducive to escaping from moving nets. The following parameters induced the most response in both individuals: bipolar current, rectangular shaped, 5-10 Hz, ~1500 µs duration, and 100 V. We recommend further research focussing on moving nets, testing a V-shaped electric array preceding the net mouth by at least 5 m, and testing a setup similar to electrotrawling.
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- K Abrantes
- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
- Biopixel Oceans Foundation, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
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- Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research, Animal Sciences - Fisheries, Ankerstraat 1, 8400 Oostende, Belgium
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0815, Australia
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- Northern Prawn Fishery Industry Pty Ltd, Caloundra, Qld 4551, Australia
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- Cairns Marine, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
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- Sharks and Rays Australia, PO Box 575, Bungalow, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, Qld 4870, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
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Goetze JS, Wilson S, Radford B, Fisher R, Langlois TJ, Monk J, Knott NA, Malcolm H, Currey‐Randall LM, Ierodiaconou D, Harasti D, Barrett N, Babcock RC, Bosch NE, Brock D, Claudet J, Clough J, Fairclough DV, Heupel MR, Holmes TH, Huveneers C, Jordan AR, McLean D, Meekan M, Miller D, Newman SJ, Rees MJ, Roberts KE, Saunders BJ, Speed CW, Travers MJ, Treml E, Whitmarsh SK, Wakefield CB, Harvey ES. Increased connectivity and depth improve the effectiveness of marine reserves. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:3432-3447. [PMID: 34015863 PMCID: PMC8360116 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
Abstract
Marine reserves are a key tool for the conservation of marine biodiversity, yet only ~2.5% of the world's oceans are protected. The integration of marine reserves into connected networks representing all habitats has been encouraged by international agreements, yet the benefits of this design has not been tested empirically. Australia has one of the largest systems of marine reserves, providing a rare opportunity to assess how connectivity influences conservation success. An Australia-wide dataset was collected using baited remote underwater video systems deployed across a depth range from 0 to 100 m to assess the effectiveness of marine reserves for protecting teleosts subject to commercial and recreational fishing. A meta-analytical comparison of 73 fished species within 91 marine reserves found that, on average, marine reserves had 28% greater abundance and 53% greater biomass of fished species compared to adjacent areas open to fishing. However, benefits of protection were not observed across all reserves (heterogeneity), so full subsets generalized additive modelling was used to consider factors that influence marine reserve effectiveness, including distance-based and ecological metrics of connectivity among reserves. Our results suggest that increased connectivity and depth improve the aforementioned marine reserve benefits and that these factors should be considered to optimize such benefits over time. We provide important guidance on factors to consider when implementing marine reserves for the purpose of increasing the abundance and size of fished species, given the expected increase in coverage globally. We show that marine reserves that are highly protected (no-take) and designed to optimize connectivity, size and depth range can provide an effective conservation strategy for fished species in temperate and tropical waters within an overarching marine biodiversity conservation framework.
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Kraft D, Meyer L, Webb M, Scidmore-Rossing K, Huveneers C, Clua E, Meyer C. Development and successful real-world use of a transfer DNA technique to identify species involved in shark bite incidents. J Forensic Sci 2021; 66:2438-2443. [PMID: 34286850 DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.14808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2020] [Revised: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Abstract
Identifying the species involved in shark bite incidents is an ongoing challenge but is important to mitigate risk. We developed a sampling protocol to identify shark species from DNA transferred to inanimate objects during bite incidents. To develop and refine the technique, we swabbed shark bite impressions on surfboards and wetsuit neoprene collected under semicontrolled conditions. Methods were tested experimentally and then successfully used to identify the species involved in a real-world shark bite incident. Thirty-two of 33 bite impressions yielded sufficient DNA sequences for species identification, producing barcodes from five test species, including dusky, Galapagos, bull, tiger, and white shark. The latter three species collectively account for a majority of shark bites worldwide. Our method successfully identified the species (Galeocerdo cuvier) responsible for a fatal shark bite on December 8th, 2020 on the island of Maui, from swab samples collected from the victim's surfboard 49 h after the bite incident. Our experimental results demonstrate that shark species can be accurately identified from transfer DNA recovered from bite impressions on surfboards and wetsuit neoprene. The successful use of our method in the real-world incident shows great potential for the practicality of this tool. We recommend DNA swabbing as a routine part of the forensic analysis of shark bites to help identify the species involved in human-shark interactions.
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- Derek Kraft
- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, USA
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.,The Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, USA
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Laboratoire d'excellence CORAIL, CRIOBE USR3278 EPHE-CNRS-UPVD, EPHE, PSL Research University, Perpignan, France
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, Kaneohe, Hawaii, USA
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Papastamatiou YP, Iosilevskii G, Di Santo V, Huveneers C, Hattab T, Planes S, Ballesta L, Mourier J. Sharks surf the slope: Current updrafts reduce energy expenditure for aggregating marine predators. J Anim Ecol 2021; 90:2302-2314. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Yannis P. Papastamatiou
- Institute of the Environment Department of Biological Sciences Florida International University North Miami FL USA
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- Division of Functional Morphology Department of Zoology Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden
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- College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Bedford Park South Australia Australia
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- MARBECUniv MontpellierCNRSIFREMERIRD Sète France
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- PSL Research UniversityEPHE‐UPVD‐CNRSUSR 3278 CRIOBE Perpignan France
- Laboratoire d'Excellence “CORAIL” USR 3278 CNRS‐EPHE‐UPVD CRIOBE Perpignan France
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Clarke TM, Whitmarsh SK, Hounslow JL, Gleiss AC, Payne NL, Huveneers C. Using tri-axial accelerometer loggers to identify spawning behaviours of large pelagic fish. Mov Ecol 2021; 9:26. [PMID: 34030744 PMCID: PMC8145823 DOI: 10.1186/s40462-021-00248-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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BACKGROUND Tri-axial accelerometers have been used to remotely describe and identify in situ behaviours of a range of animals without requiring direct observations. Datasets collected from these accelerometers (i.e. acceleration, body position) are often large, requiring development of semi-automated analyses to classify behaviours. Marine fishes exhibit many "burst" behaviours with high amplitude accelerations that are difficult to interpret and differentiate. This has constrained the development of accurate automated techniques to identify different "burst" behaviours occurring naturally, where direct observations are not possible. METHODS We trained a random forest machine learning algorithm based on 624 h of accelerometer data from six captive yellowtail kingfish during spawning periods. We identified five distinct behaviours (swim, feed, chafe, escape, and courtship), which were used to train the model based on 58 predictive variables. RESULTS Overall accuracy of the model was 94%. Classification of each behavioural class was variable; F1 scores ranged from 0.48 (chafe) - 0.99 (swim). The model was subsequently applied to accelerometer data from eight free-ranging kingfish, and all behaviour classes described from captive fish were predicted by the model to occur, including 19 events of courtship behaviours ranging from 3 s to 108 min in duration. CONCLUSION Our findings provide a novel approach of applying a supervised machine learning model on free-ranging animals, which has previously been predominantly constrained to direct observations of behaviours and not predicted from an unseen dataset. Additionally, our findings identify typically ambiguous spawning and courtship behaviours of a large pelagic fish as they naturally occur.
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- Thomas M Clarke
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia.
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, 6150, WA, Australia
- College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South St., Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia
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- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, 6150, WA, Australia
- College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, 90 South St., Murdoch, WA, 6150, Australia
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- School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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McMillan MN, Semmens JM, Huveneers C, Sims DW, Stehfest KM, Gillanders BM. Grow or go? Energetic constraints on shark pup dispersal from pupping areas. Conserv Physiol 2021; 9:coab017. [PMID: 33959285 PMCID: PMC8084043 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coab017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Revised: 02/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Many sharks and other marine taxa use natal areas to maximize survival of young, meaning such areas are often attributed conservation value. The use of natal areas is often linked to predator avoidance or food resources. However, energetic constraints that may influence dispersal of young and their use of natal areas are poorly understood. We combined swim-tunnel respirometry, calorimetry, lipid class analysis and a bioenergetics model to investigate how energy demands influence dispersal of young in a globally distributed shark. The school shark (a.k.a. soupfin, tope), Galeorhinus galeus, is Critically Endangered due to overfishing and is one of many sharks that use protected natal areas in Australia. Energy storage in neonate pups was limited by small livers, low overall lipid content and low levels of energy storage lipids (e.g. triacylglycerols) relative to adults, with energy stores sufficient to sustain routine demands for 1.3-4 days (mean ± SD: 2.4 ± 0.8 days). High levels of growth-associated structural lipids (e.g. phospholipids) and high energetic cost of growth suggested large investment in growth during residency in natal areas. Rapid growth (~40% in length) between birth in summer and dispersal in late autumn-winter likely increased survival by reducing predation and improving foraging ability. Delaying dispersal may allow prioritization of growth and may also provide energy savings through improved swimming efficiency and cooler ambient temperatures (daily ration was predicted to fall by around a third in winter). Neonate school sharks are therefore ill-equipped for large-scale dispersal and neonates recorded in the northwest of their Australian distribution are likely born locally, not at known south-eastern pupping areas. This suggests the existence of previously unrecorded school shark pupping areas. Integrated bioenergetic approaches as applied here may help to understand dispersal from natal areas in other taxa, such as teleost fishes, elasmobranchs and invertebrates.
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- M N McMillan
- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, & Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
- Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Animal Science, EcoSciences Precinct, Dutton Park 4102, Australia
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Taroona 7053, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park 5042, Australia
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- Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB, UK
- Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, Waterfront Campus, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Taroona 7053, Australia
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- Southern Seas Ecology Laboratories, School of Biological Sciences, & Environment Institute, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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Huveneers C, Jaine FRA, Barnett A, Butcher PA, Clarke TM, Currey-Randall LM, Dwyer RG, Ferreira LC, Gleiss AC, Hoenner X, Ierodiaconou D, Lédée EJI, Meekan MG, Pederson H, Rizzari JR, van Ruth PD, Semmens JM, Taylor MD, Udyawer V, Walsh P, Heupel MR, Harcourt R. The power of national acoustic tracking networks to assess the impacts of human activity on marine organisms during the COVID-19 pandemic. Biol Conserv 2021; 256:108995. [PMID: 34580542 PMCID: PMC8457752 DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2021.108995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2020] [Revised: 12/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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COVID-19 restrictions have led to an unprecedented global hiatus in anthropogenic activities, providing a unique opportunity to assess human impact on biological systems. Here, we describe how a national network of acoustic tracking receivers can be leveraged to assess the effects of human activity on animal movement and space use during such global disruptions. We outline variation in restrictions on human activity across Australian states and describe four mechanisms affecting human interactions with the marine environment: 1) reduction in economy and trade changing shipping traffic; 2) changes in export markets affecting commercial fisheries; 3) alterations in recreational activities; and 4) decline in tourism. We develop a roadmap for the analysis of acoustic tracking data across various scales using Australia's national Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tracking Facility as a case study. We illustrate the benefit of sustained observing systems and monitoring programs by assessing how a 51-day break in white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) cage-diving tourism due to COVID-19 restrictions affected the behaviour and space use of two resident species. This cessation of tourism activities represents the longest break since cage-diving vessels started day trips in this area in 2007. Long-term monitoring of the local environment reveals that the activity space of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) was reduced when cage-diving boats were absent compared to periods following standard tourism operations. However, white shark residency and movements were not affected. Our roadmap is globally applicable and will assist researchers in designing studies to assess how anthropogenic activities can impact animal movement and distributions during regional, short-term through to major, unexpected disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Charlie Huveneers
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
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- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tracking Facility, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
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- College of Science & Engineering James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, 4878, Australia
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- NSW Department of Primary Industries, National Marine Science Centre, Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5042, Australia
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- Global Change Ecology Research Group, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia
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- College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
- Centre for Sustainable Aquatic Ecosystems, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Warrnambool, VIC 3280, Australia
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- Fish Ecology and Conservation Physiology Laboratory, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Queenscliff, VIC, 3225, Australia
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- South Australian Research and Development Institute - Aquatic Sciences, West Beach, SA 5024, Australia
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 49, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
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- Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Locked Bag 1, Nelson Bay, NSW 2315, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, NT 0810, Australia
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 49, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
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- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7000, Australia
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- Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tracking Facility, Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, NSW 2088, Australia
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia
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Bradshaw CJA, Meagher P, Thiele MJ, Harcourt RG, Huveneers C. Predicting potential future reduction in shark bites on people. R Soc Open Sci 2021; 8:201197. [PMID: 34035935 PMCID: PMC8101541 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2020] [Accepted: 01/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Despite the low chance of a person being bitten by a shark, there are serious associated costs. Electronic deterrents are currently the only types of personal deterrent with empirical evidence of a substantial reduction in the probability of being bitten by a shark. We aimed to predict the number of people who could potentially avoid being bitten by sharks in Australia if they wear personal electronic deterrents. We used the Australian Shark Attack File from 1900 to 2020 to develop sinusoidal time-series models of per capita incidents, and then stochastically projected these to 2066. We predicted that up to 1063 people (range: 185-2118) could potentially avoid being bitten across Australia by 2066 if all people used the devices. Avoiding death and injury of people over the next half-century is of course highly desirable, especially when considering the additional costs associated with the loss of recreational, commercial and tourism revenue potentially in the tens to hundreds of millions of dollars following clusters of shark-bite events.
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- Corey J. A. Bradshaw
- Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- Taronga Conservation Society Australia, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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Heinrich D, Dhellemmes F, Guttridge TL, Smukall M, Brown C, Rummer J, Gruber S, Huveneers C. Short-term impacts of daily feeding on the residency, distribution and energy expenditure of sharks. Anim Behav 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Meyer L, Chambers S, Gervais C, Pethybridge H, Beckmann C, Bruce B, Huveneers C. The use of muscle lipids and fatty acids to assess shark diet and condition. J Fish Biol 2021; 98:566-571. [PMID: 33111319 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2019] [Revised: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Following a lack of detected change in white shark Carcharodon carcharias L. 1758 diet and nutritional condition attributed to the interaction with the cage-diving industry, Lusseau and Derous (Tourism Management, 2019, 75, 547-549) cautioned the use of muscle lipids and fatty acids in this context, advocating for other biomarkers. This study provides additional evidence from peer-reviewed literature to contend the usefulness of elasmobranch muscle fatty acid profiles to detail diet and habitat use. It also presents findings from a controlled experiment on captive Port Jackson sharks Heterodontus portusjacksoni (Meyer 1793) whereby long-term (daily for 33 days) 3 min exhaustive chase exercise changed muscle lipid class profiles, supporting its use to infer nutritional condition after activities such as interactions with wildlife tourism operators. Conversely, the unaltered muscle fatty acid and lipid content suggests their use in trophic ecology is not confounded by activities such as interacting with tourism operators, remaining useful biomarkers to investigate diet and habitat use.
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- Lauren Meyer
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
- Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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- Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution of Fishes Lab, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution of Fishes Lab, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia, Australia
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Meyer L, Apps K, Bryars S, Clarke T, Hayden B, Pelton G, Simes B, Vaughan LM, Whitmarsh SK, Huveneers C. A multidisciplinary framework to assess the sustainability and acceptability of wildlife tourism operations. Conserv Lett 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/conl.12788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Lauren Meyer
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Bedford Park SA Australia
- Georgia Aquarium Atlanta Georgia United States
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- School of Environment, Science and Engineering Southern Cross University Lismore NSW Australia
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- Department for Environment and Water Adelaide SA Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Bedford Park SA Australia
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- Department for Environment and Water Adelaide SA Australia
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- Department for Environment and Water Adelaide SA Australia
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- Department for Environment and Water Adelaide SA Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Bedford Park SA Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Bedford Park SA Australia
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Gervais CR, Huveneers C, Rummer JL, Brown C. Population variation in the thermal response to climate change reveals differing sensitivity in a benthic shark. Glob Chang Biol 2021; 27:108-120. [PMID: 33118308 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15422] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Many species with broad distributions are exposed to different thermal regimes which often select for varied phenotypes. This intraspecific variation is often overlooked but may be critical in dictating the vulnerability of different populations to environmental change. We reared Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) eggs from two thermally discrete populations (i.e. Jervis Bay and Adelaide) under each location's present-day mean temperatures, predicted end-of-century temperatures and under reciprocal-cross conditions to establish intraspecific thermal sensitivity. Rearing temperatures strongly influenced ṀO2 Max and critical thermal limits, regardless of population, indicative of acclimation processes. However, there were significant population-level effects, such that Jervis Bay sharks, regardless of rearing temperature, did not exhibit differences in ṀO2 Rest , but under elevated temperatures exhibited reduced maximum swimming activity with step-wise increases in temperature. In contrast, Adelaide sharks reared under elevated temperatures doubled their ṀO2 Rest , relative to their present-day temperature counterparts; however, maximum swimming activity was not influenced. With respect to reciprocal-cross comparisons, few differences were detected between Jervis Bay and Adelaide sharks reared under ambient Jervis Bay temperatures. Similarly, juveniles (from both populations) reared under Adelaide conditions had similar thermal limits and swimming activity (maximum volitional velocity and distance) to each other, indicative of conserved acclimation capacity. However, under Adelaide temperatures, the ṀO2 Rest of Jervis Bay sharks was greater than that of Adelaide sharks. This indicates that the energetics of cooler water population (Adelaide) is likely more thermally sensitive than that of the warmer population (Jervis Bay). While unique to elasmobranchs, these data provide further support that by treating species as static, homogeneous populations, we ignore the impacts of thermal history and intraspecific variation on thermal sensitivity. With climate change, intraspecific variation will manifest as populations move, demographics change or extirpations occur, starting with the most sensitive populations.
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- Connor R Gervais
- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Jorgensen SJ, Micheli F, White TD, Van Houtan KS, Alfaro-Shigueto J, Andrzejaczek S, Arnoldi NS, Baum JK, Block B, Britten GL, Butner C, Caballero S, Cardeñosa D, Chapple TK, Clarke S, Cortés E, Dulvy NK, Fowler S, Gallagher AJ, Gilman E, Godley BJ, Graham RT, Hammerschlag N, Harry AV, Heithaus M, Hutchinson M, Huveneers C, Lowe CG, Lucifora LO, MacKeracher T, Mangel JC, Barbosa Martins AP, McCauley DJ, McClenachan L, Mull C, Natanson LJ, Pauly D, Pazmiño DA, Pistevos JCA, Queiroz N, Roff G, Shea BD, Simpfendorfer CA, Sims DW, Ward-Paige C, Worm B, Ferretti F. Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2021. [DOI: 10.3354/esr01169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Langlois T, Goetze J, Bond T, Monk J, Abesamis RA, Asher J, Barrett N, Bernard ATF, Bouchet PJ, Birt MJ, Cappo M, Currey‐Randall LM, Driessen D, Fairclough DV, Fullwood LAF, Gibbons BA, Harasti D, Heupel MR, Hicks J, Holmes TH, Huveneers C, Ierodiaconou D, Jordan A, Knott NA, Lindfield S, Malcolm HA, McLean D, Meekan M, Miller D, Mitchell PJ, Newman SJ, Radford B, Rolim FA, Saunders BJ, Stowar M, Smith ANH, Travers MJ, Wakefield CB, Whitmarsh SK, Williams J, Harvey ES. A field and video annotation guide for baited remote underwater stereo‐video surveys of demersal fish assemblages. Methods Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Labourgade P, Ballesta L, Huveneers C, Papastamatiou Y, Mourier J. Heterospecific foraging associations between reef‐associated sharks: first evidence of kleptoparasitism in sharks. Ecology 2020; 101:e03117. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Revised: 04/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/05/2020] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Pierre Labourgade
- MARBEC Université de Montpellier CNRS IFREMER IRDStation Ifremer de Sète, Av Jean Monnet, CS 30171 Sète 34203 France
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group College of Science and Engineering Flinders University Adelaide South Australia 5042 Australia
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- Department of Biological Sciences Florida International University North Miami Florida 33181 USA
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- MARBEC Université de Montpellier CNRS IFREMER IRDStation Ifremer de Sète, Av Jean Monnet, CS 30171 Sète 34203 France
- PSL Université Paris: EPHE‐UPVD‐CNRS USR 3278, CRIOBE Papetoai Moorea French Polynesia
- Laboratoire d'Excellence “CORAIL” Moorea French Polynesia
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Heinrich DDU, Vila Pouca C, Brown C, Huveneers C. Correction to: Effects of reward magnitude and training frequency on the learning rates and memory retention of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni. Anim Cogn 2020; 23:951-952. [PMID: 32607678 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-020-01405-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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In the original publication of the article, the Fig. 4 was erroneously published.
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- Dennis D U Heinrich
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Sturt Road, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
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- Zoological Institute, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden.,Behavioural Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Innovation Drive, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Sturt Road, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Heinrich DDU, Vila Pouca C, Brown C, Huveneers C. Effects of reward magnitude and training frequency on the learning rates and memory retention of the Port Jackson shark Heterodontus portusjacksoni. Anim Cogn 2020; 23:939-949. [PMID: 32524291 DOI: 10.1007/s10071-020-01402-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Revised: 05/19/2020] [Accepted: 06/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The development of adaptive responses to novel situations via learning has been demonstrated in a wide variety of animal taxa. However, knowledge on the learning abilities of one of the oldest extant vertebrate groups, Chondrichthyes, remains limited. With the increasing interest in global wildlife tourism and shark feeding operations, it is important to understand the capacities of these animals to form associations between human activities and food. We used an operant conditioning regime with a simple spatial cognitive task to investigate the effects of reinforcement frequency and reward magnitude on the learning performance and memory retention of Port Jackson sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni). Twenty-four Port Jackson sharks were assigned one of four treatments differing in reward magnitude and reinforcement frequency (large magnitude-high frequency; large magnitude-low frequency; small magnitude-high frequency; small magnitude-low frequency). The sharks were trained over a 21-day period to compare the number of days that it took to learn to pass an assigned door to feed. Sharks trained at a high reinforcement frequency demonstrated faster learning rates and a higher number of passes through the correct door at the end of the trials, while reward magnitude had limited effects on learning rate. This suggests that a reduction in reinforcement frequency during tourism-related feeding operations is likely to be more effective in reducing the risk of sharks making associations with food than limiting the amount of food provided.
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- Dennis D U Heinrich
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Sturt Road, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
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- Zoological Institute, Stockholm University, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden.,Behavioural Ecology Group, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Innovation Drive, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Sturt Road, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Thiele M, Mourier J, Papastamatiou Y, Ballesta L, Chateauminois E, Huveneers C. Response of blacktip reef sharks Carcharhinus melanopterus to shark bite mitigation products. Sci Rep 2020; 10:3563. [PMID: 32107401 PMCID: PMC7046715 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-60062-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 01/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Globally, the frequency of shark bites is rising, resulting in an increasing demand for shark deterrents and measures to lessen the impact of shark bites on humans. Most existing shark protection measures are designed to reduce the probability of a bite, but fabrics that minimise injuries when a shark bite occurs can also be used as mitigation devices. Here, we assessed the ability of the Ocean Guardian Scuba7 and Kevlar material to reduce the likelihood of blacktip reef sharks, Carcharhinus melanopterus, from feeding, and to minimise injuries from shark bites. Sharks were enticed to consume a small piece of local reef fish (bait) placed between the two Scuba7 electrodes with the deterrents randomly being turned on or kept off. In the second experiment, the bait was attached to a small pouch made of either standard neoprene or neoprene with a protective layer of Kevlar around it. The Scuba7 reduced the proportion of baits being taken by 67%, (from 100% during control trials to 33%). Sharks also took more time to take the bait when the device was active (165 ± 20.40 s vs. 38.9 ± 3.35 s), approached at a greater distance (80.98 ± 1.72 cm vs. 38.88 ± 3.20 cm) and made a greater number of approaches per trial (19.38 ± 2.29 vs. 3.62 ± 0.53) than when the Scuba7 was inactive. The sizes of punctures from shark bites were significantly smaller on neoprene with Kevlar compared to standard neoprene (3.64 ± 0.26 mm vs. 5.88 ± 0.29 mm). The number of punctures was also fewer when Kevlar was used (14.92 ± 3.16 vs. 74.1 ± 12.44). Overall, the Ocean Guardian Scuba7 and Kevlar reduced the impact of blacktip reef shark bites. These findings may help consumers make informed decisions when purchasing shark deterring and protective products.
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- Madeline Thiele
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia
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- MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IFREMER, IRD, Sète, France.,EPHE, PSL Research University, CRIOBE USR3278 EPHECNRS-UPVD, 66860, Perpignan, France.,Labex Corail, CRIOBE, 98729, Moorea, French Polynesia
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University, North Miami, Florida, USA
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- Centre Securite Requin, 25 F avenue des artisans, zone Artisanale de la Pointe des Chateaux, 97436, Saint-Leu, Reunion Island, France
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia.
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Gallagher AJ, Meyer L, Pethybridge HR, Huveneers C, Butcher PA. Effects of short-term capture on the physiology of white sharks Carcharodon carcharias: amino acids and fatty acids. ENDANGER SPECIES RES 2019. [DOI: 10.3354/esr00997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Whitmarsh SK, Amin DB, Costi JJ, Dennis JD, Huveneers C. Effectiveness of novel fabrics to resist punctures and lacerations from white shark (Carcharodon carcharias): Implications to reduce injuries from shark bites. PLoS One 2019; 14:e0224432. [PMID: 31738770 PMCID: PMC6860444 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0224432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/14/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Increases in the number of shark bites, along with increased media attention on shark-human interactions has led to growing interest in preventing injuries from shark bites through the use of personal mitigation measures. The leading cause of fatality from shark bite victims is blood loss; thus reducing haemorrhaging may provide additional time for a shark bite victim to be attended to by emergency services. Despite previous shark-proof suits being bulky and cumbersome, new technological advances in fabric has allowed the development of lightweight alternatives that can be incorporated onto traditional wetsuits. The ability for these fabrics to withstand shark bites has not been scientifically tested. In this report, we compared two types of recently developed protective fabrics that incorporated ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibre onto neoprene (SharkStop and ActionTX) and compared them to standard neoprene alternatives. We tested nine different fabric variants using three different tests, laboratory-based puncture and laceration tests, along with field-based trials involving white sharks Carcharodon carcharias. Field-based trials consisted of measuring C. carcharias bite force and quantifying damages to the new fabrics following a bite from 3–4 m total length C. carcharias. We found that SharkStop and ActionTX fabric variants were more resistant to puncture, laceration, and bites from C. carcharias. More force was required to puncture the new fabrics compared to control fabrics (laboratory-based tests), and cuts made to the new fabrics were smaller and shallower than those on standard neoprene for both types of test, i.e. laboratory and field tests. Our results showed that UHMWPE fibre increased the resistance of neoprene to shark bites. Although the use of UHMWPE fibre (e.g. SharkStop and ActionTX) may therefore reduce blood loss resulting from a shark bite, research is needed to assess if the reduction in damages to the fabrics extends to human tissues and decreased injuries.
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- Sasha K Whitmarsh
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
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Whitmarsh SK, Fairweather PG, Huveneers C. Lack of light colour effects when sampling fish at night in low visibility environments. J Fish Biol 2019; 95:952-955. [PMID: 31125114 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14058] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Accepted: 05/20/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We compared night deployments of Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS) in South Australia, illuminated by either red or blue light and found similar species compositions and abundances with both colours. We observed c. 1800 individuals from 52 species across 107 night-time deployments, with only one site out of six showing differences in assemblages between the two colours. With five out of six sites showing similarities between light colours our results differ from previous results and more generally suggest that the most suitable colour can differ among studies.
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- Sasha K Whitmarsh
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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May C, Meyer L, Whitmarsh S, Huveneers C. Eyes on the size: accuracy of visual length estimates of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias. R Soc Open Sci 2019; 6:190456. [PMID: 31218071 PMCID: PMC6549950 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2019] [Accepted: 04/26/2019] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Visual estimates have been used extensively to determine the length of large organisms that are logistically challenging to measure. However, there has been little effort to quantify the accuracy or validity of this technique despite inaccurate size estimates leading to incorrect population assessments and misinformed management strategies. Here, we compared visually estimated total length measurements of white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, during cage-diving operations with measurements obtained from stereo-video cameras and assessed the accuracy of those estimates in relation to suspected biases (shark size, and observer experience and gender) using generalized linear mixed-models and linear regressions. Observer experience on board cage-diving vessels had the greatest effect on the accuracy of visual length estimates, with scientists being more accurate (mean accuracy ± standard error: 23.0 ± 16.5 cm) than crew (39.9 ± 33.8 cm) and passengers (49.4 ± 38.5 cm). Observer gender and shark size had no impact on the overall accuracy of visual length estimates, but passengers overestimated sharks less than 3 m and underestimated sharks greater than 3 m. Our findings show that experience measuring animals is the most substantial driver of accurate visual length estimates regardless of the amount of exposure to the species being measured. Scientists were most accurate, even though crew observe white sharks more frequently. Our results show that visual length estimates are not impacted by shark size and are a valid measurement tool for many aspects of C. carcharias research, provided they come from people who have previously been involved in measuring animals, i.e. scientists.
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Meyer L, Pethybridge H, Nichols PD, Beckmann C, Huveneers C. Abiotic and biotic drivers of fatty acid tracers in ecology: A global analysis of chondrichthyan profiles. Funct Ecol 2019. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.13328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Lauren Meyer
- Southern Shark Ecology Group College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Bedford Park South Australia Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Bedford Park South Australia Australia
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Watanabe YY, Payne NL, Semmens JM, Fox A, Huveneers C. Swimming strategies and energetics of endothermic white sharks during foraging. J Exp Biol 2019; 222:222/4/jeb185603. [DOI: 10.1242/jeb.185603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Some fishes and sea turtles are distinct from ectotherms by having elevated core body temperatures and metabolic rates. Quantifying the energetics and activity of the regionally endothermic species will help us understand how a fundamental biophysical process (i.e. temperature-dependent metabolism) shapes animal ecology; however, such information is limited owing to difficulties in studying these large, highly active animals. White sharks, Carcharodon carcharias, are the largest fish with regional endothermy, and potentially among the most energy-demanding fishes. Here, we deployed multi-sensor loggers on eight white sharks aggregating near colonies of long-nosed fur seals, Arctocephalus forsteri, off the Neptune Islands, Australia. Simultaneous measurements of depth, swim speed (a proxy for swimming metabolic rate) and body acceleration (indicating when sharks exhibited energy-efficient gliding behaviour) revealed their fine-scale swimming behaviour and allowed us to estimate their energy expenditure. Sharks repeatedly dived (mean swimming depth, 29 m) and swam at the surface between deep dives (maximum depth, 108 m). Modal swim speeds (0.80–1.35 m s−1) were slower than the estimated speeds that minimize cost of transport (1.3–1.9 m s−1), a pattern analogous to a ‘sit-and-wait’ strategy for a perpetually swimming species. All but one shark employed unpowered gliding during descents, rendering deep (>50 m) dives 29% less costly than surface swimming, which may incur additional wave drag. We suggest that these behavioural strategies may help sharks to maximize net energy gains by reducing swimming cost while increasing encounter rates with fast-swimming seals.
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- Yuuki Y. Watanabe
- National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
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- University of Roehampton, Holybourne Avenue, London SW15 4JD, UK
- Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 49, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Fox Shark Research Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia 5070, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, South Australia 5042, Australia
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Huveneers C, Whitmarsh S, Thiele M, Meyer L, Fox A, Bradshaw CJA. Effectiveness of five personal shark-bite deterrents for surfers. PeerJ 2018; 6:e5554. [PMID: 30186701 PMCID: PMC6120439 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The number of shark-human interactions and shark bites per capita has been increasing since the 1980s, leading to a rise in measures developed to mitigate the risk of shark bites. Yet many of the products commercially available for personal protection have not been scientifically tested, potentially providing an exaggerated sense of security to the people using them. We tested five personal shark deterrents developed for surfers (Shark Shield Pty Ltd [Ocean Guardian] Freedom+ Surf, Rpela, SharkBanz bracelet, SharkBanz surf leash, and Chillax Wax) by comparing the percentage of baits taken, distance to the bait, number of passes, and whether a shark reaction could be observed. We did a total of 297 successful trials at the Neptune Islands Group Marine Park in South Australia, during which 44 different white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) interacted with the bait, making a total of 1413 passes. The effectiveness of the deterrents was variable, with the Freedom+ Surf affecting shark behaviour the most and reducing the percentage of bait taken from 96% (relative to the control board) to 40%. The mean distance of sharks to the board increased from 1.6 ± 0.1 m (control board) to 2.6 ± 0.1 m when the Freedom Surf+ was active. The other deterrents had limited or no measureable effect on white shark behavour. Based on our power analyses, the smallest effect size that could be reliably detected was ∼15%, which for the first time provides information about the effect size that a deterrent study like ours can reliably detect. Our study shows that deterrents based on similar principles—overwhelming a shark’s electroreceptors (the ampullae of Lorenzini) with electrical pulses—differ in their efficacy, reinforcing the need to test each product independently. Our results will allow private and government agencies and the public to make informed decisions about the use and suitability of these five products.
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- Charlie Huveneers
- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Southern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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- Fox Shark Research Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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- Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
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Huveneers C, Watanabe YY, Payne NL, Semmens JM. Interacting with wildlife tourism increases activity of white sharks. Conserv Physiol 2018; 6:coy019. [PMID: 29780593 PMCID: PMC5912080 DOI: 10.1093/conphys/coy019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2018] [Revised: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 04/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Anthropogenic activities are dramatically changing marine ecosystems. Wildlife tourism is one of the fastest growing sectors of the tourism industry and has the potential to modify the natural environment and behaviour of the species it targets. Here, we used a novel method to assess the effects of wildlife tourism on the activity of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). High frequency three-axis acceleration loggers were deployed on ten white sharks for a total of ~9 days. A combination of multivariate and univariate analysis revealed that the increased number of strong accelerations and vertical movements when sharks are interacting with cage-diving operators result in an overall dynamic body acceleration (ODBA) ~61% higher compared with other times when sharks are present in the area where cage-diving occurs. Since ODBA is considered a proxy of metabolic rate, interacting with cage-divers is probably more costly than are normal behaviours of white sharks at the Neptune Islands. However, the overall impact of cage-diving might be small if interactions with individual sharks are infrequent. This study suggests wildlife tourism changes the instantaneous activity levels of white sharks, and calls for an understanding of the frequency of shark-tourism interactions to appreciate the net impact of ecotourism on this species' fitness.
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- Charlie Huveneers
- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Bedford Park, Adelaide, South Australia 5165, Australia
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
- SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
- University of Roehampton, London SW154JD, UK
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Taroona, Tasmania 7053, Australia
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Whitmarsh SK, Huveneers C, Fairweather PG. What are we missing? Advantages of more than one viewpoint to estimate fish assemblages using baited video. R Soc Open Sci 2018; 5:171993. [PMID: 29892386 PMCID: PMC5990793 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2017] [Accepted: 04/23/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Counting errors can bias assessments of species abundance and richness, which can affect assessments of stock structure, population structure and monitoring programmes. Many methods for studying ecology use fixed viewpoints (e.g. camera traps, underwater video), but there is little known about how this biases the data obtained. In the marine realm, most studies using baited underwater video, a common method for monitoring fish and nekton, have previously only assessed fishes using a single bait-facing viewpoint. To investigate the biases stemming from using fixed viewpoints, we added cameras to cover 360° views around the units. We found similar species richness for all observed viewpoints but the bait-facing viewpoint recorded the highest fish abundance. Sightings of infrequently seen and shy species increased with the additional cameras and the extra viewpoints allowed the abundance estimates of highly abundant schooling species to be up to 60% higher. We specifically recommend the use of additional cameras for studies focusing on shyer species or those particularly interested in increasing the sensitivity of the method by avoiding saturation in highly abundant species. Studies may also benefit from using additional cameras to focus observation on the downstream viewpoint.
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Nishiumi N, Matsuo A, Kawabe R, Payne N, Huveneers C, Watanabe YY, Kawabata Y. A miniaturized threshold-triggered acceleration data-logger for recording burst movements of aquatic animals. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 221:jeb.172346. [PMID: 29444848 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.172346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/03/2018] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Although animal-borne accelerometers are effective tools for quantifying the kinematics of animal behaviors, quantifying the burst movements of small and agile aquatic animals remains challenging. To capture the details of burst movements, accelerometers need to sample at a very high frequency, which will inevitably shorten the recording duration or increase the device size. To overcome this problem, we developed a high-frequency acceleration data-logger that can be triggered by a manually defined acceleration threshold, thus allowing the selective measurement of burst movements. We conducted experiments under laboratory and field conditions to examine the performance of the logger. The laboratory experiment using red seabream (Pagrus major) showed that the new logger could measure the kinematics of their escape behaviors. The field experiment using free-swimming yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) showed that the loggers trigger correctly. We suggest that this new logger can be applied to measure the burst movements of various small and agile animals.
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- Nozomi Nishiumi
- Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyomachi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan.,Institute for East China Sea Research, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Tairamachi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
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- Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyomachi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan
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- Institute for East China Sea Research, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Tairamachi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
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- University of Roehampton, Holybourne Avenue, London SW15 4JD, UK
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, SA 5042, Australia
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- National Institute of Polar Research, Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan.,SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Tachikawa, Tokyo 190-8518, Japan
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- Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1-14 Bunkyomachi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan .,Institute for East China Sea Research, Graduate School of Fisheries and Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki University, 1551-7 Tairamachi, Nagasaki 851-2213, Japan
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Brodie S, Lédée EJI, Heupel MR, Babcock RC, Campbell HA, Gledhill DC, Hoenner X, Huveneers C, Jaine FRA, Simpfendorfer CA, Taylor MD, Udyawer V, Harcourt RG. Continental-scale animal tracking reveals functional movement classes across marine taxa. Sci Rep 2018; 8:3717. [PMID: 29487384 PMCID: PMC5829234 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-21988-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2017] [Accepted: 02/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Acoustic telemetry is a principle tool for observing aquatic animals, but coverage over large spatial scales remains a challenge. To resolve this, Australia has implemented the Integrated Marine Observing System’s Animal Tracking Facility which comprises a continental-scale hydrophone array and coordinated data repository. This national acoustic network connects localized projects, enabling simultaneous monitoring of multiple species over scales ranging from 100 s of meters to 1000 s of kilometers. There is a need to evaluate the utility of this national network in monitoring animal movement ecology, and to identify the spatial scales that the network effectively operates over. Cluster analyses assessed movements and residency of 2181 individuals from 92 species, and identified four functional movement classes apparent only through aggregating data across the entire national network. These functional movement classes described movement metrics of individuals rather than species, and highlighted the plasticity of movement patterns across and within populations and species. Network analyses assessed the utility and redundancy of each component of the national network, revealing multiple spatial scales of connectivity influenced by the geographic positioning of acoustic receivers. We demonstrate the significance of this nationally coordinated network of receivers to better reveal intra-specific differences in movement profiles and discuss implications for effective management.
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- Stephanie Brodie
- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia. .,Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia. .,Institute of Marine Science, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA.
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- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture & College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia.,Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, 4810, Australia
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- School of Environment, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, 0909, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere and CSIRO National Research Collections Australia, Hobart, TAS, 7000, Australia
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- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, 5042, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia.,Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture & College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, 4811, Australia
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- School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.,Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Taylors Beach, NSW, 2316, Australia
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- Arafura Timor Research Facility, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Darwin, NT, 0810, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, NSW, 2088, Australia.,Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia
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Hoenner X, Huveneers C, Steckenreuter A, Simpfendorfer C, Tattersall K, Jaine F, Atkins N, Babcock R, Brodie S, Burgess J, Campbell H, Heupel M, Pasquer B, Proctor R, Taylor MD, Udyawer V, Harcourt R. Australia's continental-scale acoustic tracking database and its automated quality control process. Sci Data 2018; 5:170206. [PMID: 29381146 PMCID: PMC5789868 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2017.206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Our ability to predict species responses to environmental changes relies on accurate records of animal movement patterns. Continental-scale acoustic telemetry networks are increasingly being established worldwide, producing large volumes of information-rich geospatial data. During the last decade, the Integrated Marine Observing System's Animal Tracking Facility (IMOS ATF) established a permanent array of acoustic receivers around Australia. Simultaneously, IMOS developed a centralised national database to foster collaborative research across the user community and quantify individual behaviour across a broad range of taxa. Here we present the database and quality control procedures developed to collate 49.6 million valid detections from 1891 receiving stations. This dataset consists of detections for 3,777 tags deployed on 117 marine species, with distances travelled ranging from a few to thousands of kilometres. Connectivity between regions was only made possible by the joint contribution of IMOS infrastructure and researcher-funded receivers. This dataset constitutes a valuable resource facilitating meta-analysis of animal movement, distributions, and habitat use, and is important for relating species distribution shifts with environmental covariates.
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- Xavier Hoenner
- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
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- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture and College of Marine and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
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- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia.,Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, GPO Box 2583, Brisbane 4001, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia.,Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, School of Environment, Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory 0909, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia
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- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Australian Ocean Data Network, Integrated Marine Observing System University of Tasmania, Private Bag 110, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Ecology and Evolution Research Centre, and School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia.,Port Stephens Fisheries Institute, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Taylors Beach Rd, Taylors Beach, New South Wales 2316, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia
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- Sydney Institute of Marine Science, Mosman, New South Wales 2088, Australia.,Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia
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Taylor BM, Brandl SJ, Kapur M, Robbins WD, Johnson G, Huveneers C, Renaud P, Choat JH. Bottom-up processes mediated by social systems drive demographic traits of coral-reef fishes. Ecology 2018; 99:642-651. [DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2017] [Revised: 12/07/2017] [Accepted: 12/18/2017] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Brett M. Taylor
- Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; University of Hawaii and NOAA Fisheries; Honolulu Hawaii 96818 USA
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- Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network; Smithsonian Environmental Research Center; Edgewater Maryland 21037 USA
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- Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research; Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; University of Hawaii and NOAA Fisheries; Honolulu Hawaii 96818 USA
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- Wildlife Marine; Perth Western Australia 6020 Australia
- Department of Environment and Agriculture; Curtin University; Perth Western Australia 6102 Australia
- School of Life Sciences; University of Technology Sydney; Sydney New South Wales 2007 Australia
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- Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology; University of Hawaii; Kaneohe Hawaii 96744 USA
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- College of Science and Engineering; Flinders University; Bedford Park South Australia 5042 Australia
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- Khaled Bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation; Annapolis Maryland 21403 USA
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- College of Science and Engineering; James Cook University; Townsville Queensland 4811 Australia
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Brunnschweiler J, Huveneers C, Borucinska J. Multi-year growth progression of a neoplastic lesion on a bull shark ( Carcharhinus leucas). ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.19185/matters.201709000002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Huveneers C, Stehfest KM, Simpfendorfer CA, Semmens J, Hobday AJ, Pederson H, Stieglitz T, Vallee R, Webber D, Heupel MR, Harcourt R. Application of the Acoustic Propagation Model to a deep‐water cross‐shelf curtain. Methods Ecol Evol 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.12806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Charlie Huveneers
- School of Biological Sciences Flinders University Bedford Park Adelaide SA 5042 Australia
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies University of Tasmania Hobart TAS 7000 Australia
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- Centre for Sustainable Tropical Fisheries and Aquaculture & College of Marine and Environmental Sciences James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811 Australia
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies University of Tasmania Hobart TAS 7000 Australia
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- Vemco a division of AMIRIX Systems Inc Bedford NS B4B 0L9 Canada
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- College of Science, Technology & Engineering & Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research James Cook University Townsville QLD 4811 Australia
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- Vemco a division of AMIRIX Systems Inc Bedford NS B4B 0L9 Canada
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- Vemco a division of AMIRIX Systems Inc Bedford NS B4B 0L9 Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University Sydney NSW 2109 Australia
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Rizzari JR, Semmens JM, Fox A, Huveneers C. Observations of marine wildlife tourism effects on a non-focal species. J Fish Biol 2017; 91:981-988. [PMID: 28758213 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.13389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2017] [Accepted: 06/29/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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A radio-acoustic positioning system was used to assess the effects of shark cage-diving operators (SCDO) on the fine-scale movements of a non-focal species, the smooth stingray Bathytoshia brevicaudata. The results revealed that the time spent in the array was individually variable, but generally increased when SCDO were present and that the presence of SCDO may have the capacity to elicit changes in the space use of B. brevicaudata. These results indicate that the effects of marine wildlife tourism may extend beyond the focal species of interest.
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- J R Rizzari
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture Centre, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
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- Fox Shark Research Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia 5070, Australia
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- College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia 5042, Australia
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Huveneers C, Klebe S, Fox A, Bruce B, Robbins R, Borucinska JD, Jones R, Z Michael M. First histological examination of a neoplastic lesion from a free-swimming white shark, Carcharodon carcharias L. J Fish Dis 2016; 39:1269-1273. [PMID: 27075715 DOI: 10.1111/jfd.12458] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2015] [Revised: 01/04/2016] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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- C Huveneers
- School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Fox Shark Research Foundation, Joslin, SA, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia
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- Fox Shark Research Foundation, Joslin, SA, Australia
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- Biology Department, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA
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- The Aquarium Vet, Moorabbin, Vic., Australia
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- Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer, Flinders Medical Centre, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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