Evaluation of MPA designs that protect highly mobile megafauna now and under climate change scenarios

Poleward bound: adapting to climate-driven species redistribution

(2021) Jess Melbourne-Thomas et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Global changes in oceanic mesoscale currents over the satellite altimetry record

(2021) Josué Martínez-Moreno et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effect of predicted sea level rise scenarios on green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting

(2021) Bektaş Sönmez et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Strategically designed marine reserve networks are robust to climate change driven shifts in population connectivity

(2020) Andrew Rassweiler et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Mobile protected areas for biodiversity on the high seas

(2020) Sara M. Maxwell et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating the effectiveness of a large multi‐use MPA in protecting Key Biodiversity Areas for marine predators

(2020) Jonathan M. Handley et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Contributions of tourism-based Marine Conservation Agreements to natural resource management in Fiji

(2020) Sangeeta Mangubhai et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Production of male hatchlings at a remote South Pacific green sea turtle rookery: conservation implications in a female-dominated world

(2020) Jacques-Olivier Laloë et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Abundance and site fidelity of bottlenose dolphins off a remote oceanic island (Reunion Island, southwest Indian Ocean)

(2020) Vanessa Estrade et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Addressing tagging location bias to assess space use by marine animals

(2020) Graeme C. Hays et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The Economic Value of Shark and Ray Tourism in Indonesia and Its Role in Delivering Conservation Outcomes

(2020) Putu Liza Kusuma Mustika et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Dolphins and Boats: When Is a Disturbance, Disturbing?

(2020) Leslie New et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Genetic analysis of the diet of red‐footed boobies ( Sula sula ) provisioning chicks at Ulupa'u Crater, O'ahu

(2020) Sarah E. Donahue et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Simulated growth and reproduction of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) under climate change and marine heatwave scenarios

(2020) Jessica L. Stubbs et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Movements of juvenile yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) within the coastal FAD network adjacent to the Palau National Marine Sanctuary: Implications for local fisheries development

(2020) Alexander Filous et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges

(2020) Graeme C. Hays et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

How far have we come? A review of MPA network performance indicators in reaching qualitative elements of Aichi Target 11

(2020) Mairi C. Meehan et al.   Conservation Letters

A global review of green turtle diet: sea surface temperature as a potential driver of omnivory levels

(2020) Nicole Esteban et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Small-Scale Movement Patterns, Activity Budgets, and Association Patterns of Radio-Tagged Indian River Lagoon Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

(2019) Wendy Noke Durden et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

The importance of sample size in marine megafauna tagging studies

(2019) A. M. M. Sequeira et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Cyclone avoidance behaviour by foraging seabirds

(2019) Henri Weimerskirch et al.   Scientific Reports

Evidence and patterns of tuna spawning inside a large no-take Marine Protected Area

(2019) Christina M. Hernández et al.   Scientific Reports

Social preferences and network structure in a population of reef manta rays

(2019) Robert J. Y. Perryman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Preliminary insights into the population characteristics and distribution of reef (Mobula alfredi) and oceanic (M. birostris) manta rays in French Polynesia

(2019) Alice S. Carpentier et al.   CORAL REEFS

Fidelity to foraging sites after long migrations

(2019) Takahiro Shimada et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Tropical seabirds sample broadscale patterns of marine contaminants

(2019) M.E. Gilmour et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Habitat use and movement patterns of reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in southern Mozambique

(2019) SK Venables et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Marine protected areas show low overlap with projected distributions of seabird populations in Britain and Ireland

(2018) Emma Jane Critchley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Addressing Criticisms of Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas

(2018) Bethan C O’Leary et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Mobile marine predators: an understudied source of nutrients to coral reefs in an unfished atoll

(2018) Jessica J. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

On the ecological relevance of landscape mapping and its application in the spatial planning of very large marine protected areas

(2018) Oliver T. Hogg et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Most atolls will be uninhabitable by the mid-21st century because of sea-level rise exacerbating wave-driven flooding

(2018) Curt D. Storlazzi et al.   Science Advances

Activity seascapes highlight central place foraging strategies in marine predators that never stop swimming

(2018) Yannis P. Papastamatiou et al.   Movement Ecology

Plasticity of foraging behaviors in response to diverse environmental conditions

(2018) Morgan E. Gilmour et al.   Ecosphere

Marine protected areas and migratory species: residency of green turtles at Palmyra Atoll, Central Pacific

(2018) E Naro-Maciel et al.   Endangered Species Research

Conventional MPAs are not as effective as community co-managed areas in conserving top-down control in the Gulf of California

(2018) Karol Ulate et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Genetic analysis and satellite tracking reveal origin of the green turtles in San Diego Bay

(2018) Peter H. Dutton et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Leveraging satellite technology to create true shark sanctuaries

(2018) Darcy Bradley et al.   Conservation Letters

Identifying Foraging Hotspots of Bottlenose Dolphins in a Highly Dynamic System: A Method to Enhance Conservation in Estuaries

(2018) Paula Moreno et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Ecosystem damage from anthropogenic seabed disturbance: A life cycle impact assessment characterisation model

(2018) John S. Woods et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Projected atoll shoreline and run-up changes in response to sea-level rise and varying large wave conditions at Wake and Midway Atolls, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

(2017) James B. Shope et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Social structure of a population of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the oceanic archipelago of Madeira, Portugal

(2017) Ana Dinis et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Isotopic niche width differentiation between common bottlenose dolphin ecotypes and sperm whales in the Gulf of California

(2017) Raúl E. Díaz-Gamboa et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

A coupled wave-hydrodynamic model of an atoll with high friction: Mechanisms for flow, connectivity, and ecological implications

(2017) Justin S. Rogers et al.   OCEAN MODELLING

Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll

(2017) Hillary Young et al.   PLoS One

The economic value of shark-diving tourism in Australia

(2017) Charlie Huveneers et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Large marine protected areas represent biodiversity now and under climate change

(2017) T. E. Davies et al.   Scientific Reports

Sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscatus) survival, oil spills, shrimp fisheries, and hurricanes

(2017) Ryan M. Huang et al.   PeerJ

Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas

(2017) Trevor W. Joyce et al.   PLoS One

Resetting predator baselines in coral reef ecosystems

(2017) Darcy Bradley et al.   Scientific Reports

Reassessing the trophic role of reef sharks as apex predators on coral reefs

(2016) Ashley J. Frisch et al.   CORAL REEFS

WhaleWatch: a dynamic management tool for predicting blue whale density in the California Current

(2016) Elliott L. Hazen et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Movement patterns of reef predators in a small isolated marine protected area with implications for resource management

(2016) Alexander Filous et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Temporal-spatial distribution of an island-based offshore population of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus ) in the equatorial Atlantic

(2016) Lucas C. Milmann et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins

(2016) Jamison M. Gove et al.   Nature Communications

Acoustic behavior of melon-headed whales varies on a diel cycle

(2015) Simone Baumann-Pickering et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Pelagic marine protected areas protect foraging habitat for multiple breeding seabirds in the central Pacific

(2015) Hillary S. Young et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Contrasting movements and connectivity of reef-associated sharks using acoustic telemetry: implications for management

(2015) Mario Espinoza et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fifty years of dart tag recoveries for tropical tuna: A global comparison of results for the western Pacific, eastern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans

(2015) Alain Fonteneau et al.   FISHERIES RESEARCH

Movements of the reef manta ray (Manta alfredi) in the Red Sea using satellite and acoustic telemetry

(2015) Camrin D. Braun et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Climate change and marine vertebrates

(2015) William J. Sydeman et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity conservation should focus on no-take Marine Reserves

(2015) Mark J. Costello et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rapid biotic homogenization of marine fish assemblages

(2015) Anne E. Magurran et al.   Nature Communications

Recovery trajectories of kelp forest animals are rapid yet spatially variable across a network of temperate marine protected areas

(2015) Jennifer E. Caselle et al.   Scientific Reports

Will the Effects of Sea-Level Rise Create Ecological Traps for Pacific Island Seabirds?

(2015) Michelle H. Reynolds et al.   PLoS One

No Reef Is an Island: Integrating Coral Reef Connectivity Data into the Design of Regional-Scale Marine Protected Area Networks

(2015) Steven R. Schill et al.   PLoS One

Inter-island movements of common bottlenose dolphinsTursiops truncatusamong the Canary Islands: online catalogues and implications for conservation and management

(2014) M Tobeña et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Real-time spatial management approaches to reduce bycatch and discards: experiences from Europe and the United States

(2014) Alyson S Little et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Reliance of mobile species on sensitive habitats: a case study of manta rays (Manta alfredi) and lagoons

(2014) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Residency patterns and movements of grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) in semi-isolated coral reef habitats

(2014) Mario Espinoza et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Protected species use of a coastal marine migratory corridor connecting marine protected areas

(2014) Kellie L. Pendoley et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Conservation management options and actions: Putative decline of coral cover at Palmyra Atoll, Northern Line Islands, as a case study

(2014) Jonathan P.A. Gardner et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Potential impacts of historical disturbance on green turtle health in the unique & protected marine ecosystem of Palmyra Atoll (Central Pacific)

(2014) Katherine W. McFadden et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Distant Storms as Drivers of Environmental Change at Pacific Atolls

(2014) Jonathan P. A. Gardner et al.   PLoS One

Ecology and Conservation of Marine Turtles in a Central Pacific Foraging Ground

(2013) Eleanor J. Sterling et al.   CHELONIAN CONSERVATION AND BIOLOGY

Global patterns for upper ceilings on migration distance in sea turtles and comparisons with fish, birds and mammals

(2013) Graeme C. Hays et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Dynamic biogeochemical provinces in the global ocean

(2013) Gabriel Reygondeau et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Trends in sightings and environmental influences on a coastal aggregation of manta rays and whale sharks

(2013) CA Rohner et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Foraging of seabirds on pelagic fishes: implications for management of pelagic marine protected areas

(2013) SM Maxwell et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Dredging displaces bottlenose dolphins from an urbanised foraging patch

(2013) Enrico Pirotta et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Monitoring ship noise to assess the impact of coastal developments on marine mammals

(2013) Nathan D. Merchant et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Are boat strikes a threat to sea turtles in the Galapagos Marine Reserve?

(2013) Judith Denkinger et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Environmental Influences on Patterns of Vertical Movement and Site Fidelity of Grey Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) at Aggregation Sites

(2013) Gabriel M. S. Vianna et al.   PLoS One

Marine Taxa Track Local Climate Velocities

(2013) M. L. Pinsky et al.   SCIENCE

Population Dynamics of Hawaiian Seabird Colonies Vulnerable to Sea-Level Rise

(2012) JEFF S. HATFIELD et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity

(2012) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Revisiting the ontogenetic shift paradigm: The case of juvenile green turtles in the SW Atlantic

(2012) Victoria González Carman et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Nursery origin of yellowfin tuna in the Hawaiian Islands

(2012) RJD Wells et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Evaluating the management effectiveness of three marine protected areas in the Calamianes Islands, Palawan Province, Philippines: Process, selected results and their implications for planning and management

(2012) Len R. Garces et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Prioritizing Key Resilience Indicators to Support Coral Reef Management in a Changing Climate

(2012) Tim R. McClanahan et al.   PLoS One

When Giants Turn Up: Sighting Trends, Environmental Influences and Habitat Use of the Manta Ray Manta alfredi at a Coral Reef

(2012) Fabrice R. A. Jaine et al.   PLoS One

Predicted habitat shifts of Pacific top predators in a changing climate

(2012) Elliott L. Hazen et al.   Nature Climate Change

From wing to wing: the persistence of long ecological interaction chains in less-disturbed ecosystems

(2012) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   Scientific Reports

Consequences of adult and juvenile movement for marine protected areas

(2011) Arnaud Grüss et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Observed and predicted effects of climate on Australian seabirds

(2011) Lynda E. Chambers et al.   EMU

From monsoons to mantas: seasonal distribution of Manta alfredi in the Maldives

(2011) R. CHARLES ANDERSON et al.   FISHERIES OCEANOGRAPHY

Climate change impacts on tropical cyclones and extreme sea levels in the South Pacific — A regional assessment

(2011) Kevin J.E. Walsh et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Rise of the generalists: evidence for climate driven homogenization in avian communities

(2011) Catherine M. Davey et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Projected expansion of the subtropical biome and contraction of the temperate and equatorial upwelling biomes in the North Pacific under global warming

(2011) J. J. Polovina et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Distribution, site affinity and regional movements of the manta ray, Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868), along the east coast of Australia

(2011) Lydie I. E. Couturier et al.   MARINE AND FRESHWATER RESEARCH

Sliding baselines and shuffling species: implications of climate change for marine conservation

(2011) Alistair J. Hobday   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Spatial and temporal movement patterns of a multi-species coastal reef shark aggregation

(2011) CW Speed et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Population structure of melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra) in the Hawaiian Archipelago: Evidence of multiple populations based on photo identification

(2011) Jessica M. Aschettino et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Eddies as offshore foraging grounds for melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra)

(2011) Phoebe A. Woodworth et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Proximate environmental drivers of coral communities at Palmyra Atoll: Establishing baselines prior to removing a WWII military causeway

(2011) Gareth J. Williams et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes

(2011) Lothar Stramma et al.   Nature Climate Change

Near-surface mixing and pronounced deep-water stratification in a compartmentalised, human-disturbed atoll lagoon system

(2010) J. P. A. Gardner et al.   CORAL REEFS

Discriminating features of echolocation clicks of melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra), bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), and Gray’s spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris longirostris)

(2010) Simone Baumann-Pickering et al.   JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

The impact of global warming on the tropical Pacific Ocean and El Niño

(2010) Mat Collins et al.   Nature Geoscience

Immature East Pacific Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) Use Multiple Foraging Areas off the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico: First Evidence from Mark-Recapture Data

(2010) Jesse Senko et al.   PACIFIC SCIENCE

Influence of mesoscale eddies on spatial structuring of top predators’ communities in the Mozambique Channel

(2010) Emilie Tew Kai et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Making protected area networks effective for marine top predators

(2010) SK Hooker et al.   Endangered Species Research

An integrated risk assessment for climate change: analysing the vulnerability of sharks and rays on Australia's Great Barrier Reef

(2009) ANDREW CHIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis

(2009) SE Lester et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Population structure of island-associated dolphins: Evidence from photo-identification of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the main Hawaiian Islands

(2009) Robin W. Baird et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Application of the littoral cell concept to managing a protected atoll: Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

(2009) J.D. Collen et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Pelagic protected areas: the missing dimension in ocean conservation

(2009) Edward T. Game et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Movements and site fidelity of the giant manta ray, Manta birostris, in the Komodo Marine Park, Indonesia

(2008) Heidi Dewar et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

TurtleWatch: a tool to aid in the bycatch reduction of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta in the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery

(2008) EA Howell et al.   Endangered Species Research