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The BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database: 20 years of collaboration for marine co...
Carneiro, Ana P.B.; Dias, Maria P.; Clark, Bethany L.; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Handley, Jonathan; Hodgson, Amy R.; Croxall, John P.The BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database (STDB) was established in 2004 to collate tracking data to address the incidental mortality of seabirds in fisheries and to contribute to identification of sites at sea relevant to establishment of Marine Protected Areas. After 20 years, the STDB has grown to hold ca. 39 million locations for 168 species from >450 breeding sites. The STDB has become a powerful tool to supp...
Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds
Clark, Bethany L.; Carneiro, Ana P. B.; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Rouyer, Marie-Morgane; Clay, Thomas A.; Cowger, Win; Phillips, Richard A; Manica, AndreaPlastic pollution is distributed patchily around the world's oceans. Likewise, marine organisms that are vulnerable to plastic ingestion or entanglement have uneven distributions. Understanding where wildlife encounters plastic is crucial for targeting research and mitigation. Oceanic seabirds, particularly petrels, frequently ingest plastic, are highly threatened, and cover vast distances during foraging and m...
Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds
Clark, Bethany L.; Carneiro, Ana P. B.; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Rouyer, Marie-Morgane; Clay, Thomas A.; Cowger, Win; Phillips, Richard A.Plastic pollution is distributed patchily around the world’s oceans. Likewise, marine organisms that are vulnerable to plastic ingestion or entanglement have uneven distributions. Understanding where wildlife encounters plastic is crucial for targeting research and mitigation. Oceanic seabirds, particularly petrels, frequently ingest plastic, are highly threatened, and cover vast distances during foraging and m...
Global political responsibility for the conservation of albatrosses and large p...
Beal, Martin; Dias, Maria P.; Phillips, Richard A.; Oppel, Steffen; Hazin, Carolina; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Adams, Josh; Anderson, David J.Migratory marine species cross political borders and enter the high seas, where the lack of an effective global management framework for biodiversity leaves them vulnerable to threats. Here, we combine 10,108 tracks from 5775 individual birds at 87 sites with data on breeding population sizes to estimate the relative year-round importance of national jurisdictions and high seas areas for 39 species of albatross...
Marine Important bird and biodiversity areas for penguins in Antarctica, target...
Handley, Jonathan; Rouyer, Marie-Morgane; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Warwick-Evans, Victoria; Teschke, Katharina; Hinke, Jefferson T; Lynch, HeatherGlobal targets for area-based conservation and management must move beyond threshold-based targets alone and must account for the quality of such areas. In the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, a region where key biodiversity faces unprecedented risks from climate change and where there is a growing demand to extract resources, a number of marine areas have been afforded enhanced conservation or management meas...
track2KBA: An R package for identifying important sites for biodiversity from t...
Beal, Martin; Oppel, Steffen; Handley, Jonathan; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Pujol, Virginia Morera; Carneiro, Ana P. B.; Davies, TammyAbstract 1. Identifying important sites for biodiversity is vital for conservation and management. However, there is a lack of accessible, easily applied tools that enable practitioners to delineate important sites for highly mobile species using established criteria. 2. We introduce the R package ‘track2KBA’, a tool to identify important sites at the population level using tracking data from individual animals...
A framework for mapping the distribution of seabirds by integrating tracking, d...
Carneiro, Ana Paula B.; Pearmain, Elizabeth J.; Oppel, Steffen; Clay, Thomas A.; Phillips, Richard A.; Bonnet‐Lebrun, Anne‐Sophie; Wanless, Ross M.1. The identification of geographic areas where the densities of animals are highest across their annual cycles is a crucial step in conservation planning. In marine environments, however, it can be particularly difficult to map the distribution of species, and the methods used are usually biased towards adults, neglecting the distribution of other life-history stages even though they can represent a substantia...
Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds
Oppel, Steffen; Bolton, Mark; Carneiro, Ana Paula B.; Dias, Maria P.; Green, Jonathan A.; Masello, Juan F.; Phillips, Richard A.; Owen, EllieKnowing the spatial scales at which effective management can be implemented is fundamental for conservation planning. This is especially important for mobile species, which can be exposed to threats across large areas, but the space use requirements of different species can vary to an extent that might render some management approaches inefficient. Here the space use patterns of seabirds were examined to provid...