The overexploitation of sharks has become a global environmental issue in need of a
comprehensive and multifaceted management response. Tracking studies are beginning to …

The direct impacts of fishing on chondrichthyans (sharks, rays and chimeras) are well
established. Here we review a largely unreported, often misinterpreted and poorly …

The decline of predators in a variety of ecosystems has transformed community structure
through mesopredator release and trophic cascades. Elasmobranch fishes, one of the …

No-take marine protected areas (MPAs) are a commonly applied tool to reduce human
fishing impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems. However, conservation outcomes of …

The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) provides a globally significant demonstration of the
effectiveness of large-scale networks of marine reserves in contributing to integrated …

Global declines of shark populations are of concern because of their largely assumed role
as moderators of ecosystem function. Without long-term data on movement patterns for …

8.1 Background Resilience, in the broadest sense, is the capacity of a system to absorb
disturbance and reorganise so as to retain essentially the same structure, function, identity …

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

Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-specific habitat associations in response
to geographic and environmental drivers is critical to assessing risk of exposure to fishing …

Carcharhinid sharks can make up a large fraction of the top predators inhabiting tropical
marine ecosystems and have declined in many regions due to intense fishing pressure …