Global climate change is increasingly and profoundly threatening fishes, resulting in an
uncertain future for both wild fish diversity and global fisheries. Understanding how fish …

Ecological risk assessments (ERAs) are employed to quantify and predict the vulnerability of
a particular species, stock or population to a specific stressor, eg pollution, harvesting …

In an era of accelerated biodiversity loss and limited conservation resources, systematic
prioritization of species and places is essential. In terrestrial vertebrates, evolutionary …

Interest in elasmobranch biodiversity and taxonomy has grown in recent years, catalyzed
primarily by four influences:(1) the large number of new species that have been described …

Growing concern for the world's shark and ray populations is driving the need for greater
research to inform conservation management. A change in public perception, from one that …

Identifying priority areas for biodiversity conservation requires systematic approaches and
integrated ecological and biological information. Here, we applied a range of ecological …

The extinction risk of sharks, rays and chimaeras is higher than that for most other
vertebrates due to low intrinsic population growth rates of many species and the fishing …

Nursery areas are crucial for many elasmobranch species, providing benefits that increase
fitness and survival. Shark nurseries are well studied and our knowledge of their function …

Although marine protected areas (MPAs) are a common conservation strategy, these areas
are often designed with little prior knowledge of the spatial behaviour of the species they are …

Designing effective bycatch mitigation programmes requires an understanding of the life
histories of target and non-target species, interactions of fish and fishing gear, effects of …