The importance of considering genetic diversity in shark and ray conservation policies

RR Domingues, AWS Hilsdorf, OBF Gadig - Conservation genetics, 2018‏ - Springer
Many populations of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) are experiencing severe declines
due to the high demand for shark fins in Asia, the activities of unregulated fisheries, and …

Reef shark science–key questions and future directions

MR Heupel, YP Papastamatiou, M Espinoza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
The occurrence of sharks on coral reefs has been well documented for decades, especially
since the advent of SCUBA diving. Despite this, it is only within the last decade that …

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

JJ Williams, YP Papastamatiou… - … of the Royal …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Animal movements can facilitate important ecological processes, and wide-ranging marine
predators, such as sharks, potentially contribute significantly towards nutrient transfer …

Continental‐scale acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal new insights into stock structure

EJI Lédée, MR Heupel, MD Taylor… - Fish and …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Delineation of population structure (ie stocks) is crucial to successfully manage exploited
species and to address conservation concerns for threatened species. Fish migration and …

Reef sharks: recent advances in ecological understanding to inform conservation

GJ Osgood, JK Baum - Journal of fish biology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sharks are increasingly being recognized as important members of coral‐reef communities,
but their overall conservation status remains uncertain. Nine of the 29 reef‐shark species …

Scaling of activity space in marine organisms across latitudinal gradients

V Udyawer, C Huveneers, F Jaine… - The American …, 2023‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Unifying models have shown that the amount of space used by animals (eg, activity space,
home range) scales allometrically with body mass for terrestrial taxa; however, such …

Novel multimarker comparisons address the genetic population structure of silvertip sharks (Carcharhinus albimarginatus)

ME Green, SA Appleyard, W White… - Marine and …, 2019‏ - CSIRO Publishing
The silvertip shark (Carcharhinus albimarginatus) is a reef-associated shark, with an
intermittent distribution across the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Owing to global declines, the species …

Estimating marine protected area network benefits for reef sharks

G Martín, M Espinoza, M Heupel… - Journal of Applied …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Animal movement has direct applications in spatial management and conservation
planning, yet it is rarely taken into account for the design of natural protected areas. For …

Repeated long-range migrations of adult males in a common Indo-Pacific reef shark

L Bonnin, WD Robbins, G Boussarie, JJ Kiszka… - Coral Reefs, 2019‏ - Springer
The grey reef shark, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, is one of the most abundant coral reef
sharks throughout the Indo-Pacific. However, this species has been critically impacted …