| Title: |
Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets |
| Authors: |
Sequeira, Ana M.M.; Rodríguez, Jorge P.; Marley, Sarah A.; Calich, Hannah J.; van der Mheen, Mirjam; VanCompernolle, Michelle; Arrowsmith, Lucy M.; Peel, Lauren R.; Queiroz, Nuno; Vedor, Marisa; da Costa, Ivo; Mucientes, Gonzalo; Couto, Ana; Humphries, Nicolas E.; Abalo-Morla, Sara; Abascal, Francisco J.; Abercrombie, Debra L.; Abrantes, Katya; Abreu-Grobois, F. Alberto; Afonso, André S.; Afonso, Pedro; Ahonen, Heidi; Åkesson, Susanne; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Andrews, Russel D.; Angelier, Frédéric; Antonopoulou, Marina; Arata, Javier A.; Araujo, Gonzalo; Arauz, Randall; Arcos, José Manuel; Arregui, Igor; Arrizabalaga, Haritz; Auger-Méthé, Marie; Bach, Steffen; Bailleul, Fred; Baird, Robin W.; Balazs, George H.; Barco, Susan G.; Barnett, Adam; Baverstock, Warren; Baylis, Alastair M.M.; Beard, Annalea; Bécares, Juan; Belda, Eduardo J.; Bell, Ian; Bennison, Ashley; Benson, Scott R.; Bernal, Diego; Berumen, Michael L.; Bessudo, Sandra; Bezerra, Natalia P.A.; Blaison, Antonin V.; Blanco, Gabriela S.; Block, Barbara A.; Bolton, Mark; Bond, Mark E.; Bonfil, Ramón; Braun, Camrin D.; Broderick, Annette C.; Brooke, Michael de L.; Brooks, Annabelle M.L.; Brooks, Edward J.; Bruno, Ignacio M.; Burns, Jennifer M.; Byrne, Michael E.; Campana, Steven E.; Campbell, Hamish A.; Campbell, Richard A.; Carlisle, Aaron; Carmichael, Ruth H.; Carroll, Gemma; Casale, Paolo; Ceia, Filipe R.; Chapman, Demian D.; Chapple, Taylor K.; Charrassin, Jean-Benoit; Chiaradia, Andre; Chisholm, John; Clarke, Christopher R.; Clay, Thomas A.; Cleguer, Christophe; Clingham, Elizabeth; Clua, Eric E.G.; Cochran, Jesse E.M.; Constantine, Rochelle; Cooper, Robert W.; Crochelet, Estelle; Cronin, Michelle; Cuevas, Eduardo; DaCosta, Kayla P.; Dagorn, Laurent; Daly, Ryan; Davis, Randall W.; de Bruyn, P. J. Nico; Delgado-Trejo, Carlos; Dellinger, Thomas; Derville, Solène; Diamant, Stella; DiMatteo, Andrew; Dodge, Kara L.; Doherty, Philip D.; Double, Michael C.; Dove, Alistair D.M.; Doyle, Thomas K; Drew, Michael J.; Dubbs, Lindsay L.; Duffy, Clinton A.J.; Dutton, Peter H.; Edwards, Ewan W.J.; Einoder, Luke D.; Erdmann, Mark V.; Espinoza, Eduardo; Esteban, Nicole; Fagundes, Ana Isabel; Feare, Chris; Ferguson, Steven H.; Ferreira, Luciana C.; Ferretti, Francesco; Filmalter, John; Finucci, Brittany; Fischer, G. Chris; Fitzpatrick, Richard J.; Fontes, Jorge; Formia, Angela; Fossette, Sabrina; Francis, Malcolm P.; Friedlaender, Ari S.; Furtado, Miguel; Gallagher, Austin J.; Garrigue, Claire; Gennari, Enrico; Gilchrist, H. Grant; Godley, Brendan J.; Goldsworthy, Simon D.; Gollock, Matthew; Carman, Victoria González; Grecian, W. James; Green, Jonathan R.; Guinet, Christophe; Gustafson, Johan; Guttridge, Tristan L.; Guzman, Hector M.; Hamer, Derek; Hamer, Keith C.; Hammerschlag, Neil; Hammill, Mike O.; Harman, Luke; Harrison, Emma; Hart, Catherine E.; Harris, A. Errol; Hastie, Gordon; Hazin, Fabio H.V.; Heard, Matt; Hearn, Alex R.; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Henry, Leeann; Henry, Robert William; Hernandez, Vicente Guzman; Herrera, Arturo E.; Hindell, Mark A.; Holdsworth, John C.; Holmes, Bonnie J.; Howey, Lucy A.; Hoyos Padilla, Edgar Mauricio; Huckstadt, Luis A.; Hueter, Robert E.; Lara, Paulo H.; Hussey, Nigel E.; Huveneers, Charlie; Hyland, Kevin; Irion, Dylan T.; Jacoby, David M.P.; Jaeger, Audrey; Jaidah, Mohammed Y.; Jessopp, Mark; Jewell, Oliver J.D.; Johnson, Ryan; Jones, Carl G.; Jonsen, Ian D.; Jordan, Lance K.B.; Jorgensen, Salvador J.; Kato, Akiko; Ketchum, James T.; Kitaysky, Alexander S.; Klimley, A. Peter; Kock, Alison A.; Koen, Pieter; Archila, Felipe Ladino; Lana, Fernanda O.; Lane, Jude V.; Le Corre, Matthieu; Lea, Mary-Anne; Lea, James; Leat, Eliza H.K.; Lee, Olivia A.; Levenson, J. Jacob; Ley-Quiñonez, César P.; Llewellyn, Fiona; Lockhart, Gwen; Lopez, Gustave G.; Mendilaharsu, Milagros Lopez; Lowther, Andrew D.; Luschi, Paolo; Lutcavage, Molly E.; Lyon, Warrick S.; Macena, Bruno C.L.; Mackay, Alice I.; Madden, Christine A.; Mallory, Mark L.; Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Manning, Michael; Mansfield, Kate L.; March, David; Marco, Adolfo; Marcoux, Marianne; Acuña-Marrero, David; Marsh, Helene; Marshall, Heather; Mate, Bruce; McAllister, Jaime D.; McGuire, Rebecca L.; McKenzie, Jane; McLeay, Lachlan; McMahon, Clive R.; Modest, Michelle; Morris, John; Muelbert, Mônica M.C.; Namboothri, Naveen; Nichols, Wallace J.; Nicoll, Malcolm A.C.; Norman, Bradley M.; Norris, Ken; Olsen, Erik; Oppel, Steffen; Orlowski, Sabine; Pagano, Anthony M.; Page, Brad; Paiva, Vitor H.; Palacios, Daniel M.; Papastamatiou, Yannis P.; Parker, Denise M.; Pattiaratchi, Charitha; Peckham, Hoyt; Peñaherrera-Palma, Cesar R.; Pepperell, Julian G.; Phillips, Richard A.; Pierce, Simon J.; Pikesley, Stephen K.; Pilcher, Nicolas J.; Pinet, Patrick; Pinkerton, Matt; Pirotta, Enrico; Plot, Virginie; Powell, Abby N.; Powers, Kevin D.; Prebble, Clare E.M.; Preston, Tiana J.; Prieto, Rui; Prosdocimi, Laura; Quinn, John L.; Quintero, Lina Maria; Raclot, Thierry; Ramirez, Iván; Ramírez-Macías, Dení; Ramos, Jaime A.; Read, Andrew J.; Ream, Rolf; Rees, ALan F.; Reina, Richard D.; Reisinger, Ryan R.; Revuelta, Ohiana; Reynolds, Samantha D.; Richardson, Anthony J.; Riekkola, Leena; Riet-Sapriza, Federico G.; Robinson, David P.; Robinson, Patrick W.; Rocha, Carlos F.D.; Rogers, Tracey L.; Rohner, Christoph A.; Ropert-Coudert, Yan; Ross, Monica; Rowat, David R.L.; Ruhomaun, Kevin; Sagar, Paul M.; Samoilys, Melita A.; Sanchez, Sonia; Sandoval-Lugo, Alejandra G.; dos Santos, Erik A.P.; Santos, António M.; Scales, Kylie L.; Schofield, Gail; Semmens, Jayson M.; Setyawan, Edy; Shaffer, Scott A.; Shanker, Kartik; Sheaves, Marcus; Shillinger, George L.; Shivji, Mahmood S.; Sianipar, Abraham; Silk, Janet R.D.; Silva, Mónica A.; Sim, Jolene; Simpson, Samantha J.; Skomal, Gregory; Slip, David J.; Smale, Malcolm J.; Soler, German A.; Soria, Marc; Sousa, Lara L.; Southall, Emily J.; Stahl, Jean-Claude; Stehfest, Kilian M.; Sterling, Jeremy T.; Stevens, John D.; Stevens, Guy M.W.; Stewart, Joshua D.; Swaminathan, Adhith; Takahashi, Akinori; Tatayah, Vikash; Thiebot, Jean-Baptiste; Thompson, Paul M.; Thorrold, Simon R.; Thums, Michele; Tomás, Jesús; Torres, Leigh G.; Towner, Alison; Trathan, Philip N.; Tyminski, John P.; Sagarminaga van Buiten, Ricardo; Van Dam, Robert P.; Vandeperre, Frederic; Varo-Cruz, Nuria; Vaudo, Jeremy J.; Vely, Michel; Villegas-Amtmann, Stella; Vincent, Cecile; Waayers, David; Wanless, Sarah; Watanabe, Yuuki Y.; Watt, Cortney A.; Weber, Sam B.; Weber, Nicola; Weise, Michael J.; Welch, Linda; Wells, Randall S.; Werry, Jonathan M.; Wetherbee, Bradley M.; White, Timothy D.; Whiting, Scott D.; Whiting, Andrea U.; Wiebkin, Annelise; Wienecke, Barbara; Wildermann, Natalie E.; Wiley, David N.; Will, Alexis; Williams, Sean; Windstein, Marie; Wischnewski, Saskia; Witt, Matthew J.; Womersley, Freya C.; Wood, Andrew G.; Wright, Lucy J.; Xavier, José C.; Yamamoto, Takashi; Yurkowski, David J.; Zarate, Patricia M.; Zavala-Norzagaray, Alan; Zerbini, Alexandre N.; Costa, Daniel P.; Harcourt, Rob; Meekan, Mark G.; Hays, Graeme C.; Sims, David W.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Eguíluz, Víctor M. |
| Publisher Information: |
American Association for the Advancement of Science 2025-06-05 |
| Document Type: |
Electronic Resource |
| Abstract: |
The recent Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals but no clear pathway for how zero loss of important biodiversity areas and halting human-induced extinction of threatened species will be achieved. We assembled a multi-taxa tracking dataset (11 million geopositions from 15,845 tracked individuals across 121 species) to provide a global assessment of space use of highly mobile marine megafauna, showing that 63% of the area that they cover is used 80% of the time as important migratory corridors or residence areas. The GBF 30% threshold (Target 3) will be insufficient for marine megafauna’s effective conservation, leaving important areas exposed to major anthropogenic threats. Coupling area protection with mitigation strategies (e.g., fishing regulation, wildlife-traffic separation) will be essential to reach international goals and conserve biodiversity. |
| Index Terms: |
Ecology and Environment; Marine Sciences; Data and Information; Publication - Article; PeerReviewed |
| URL: |
https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539598/1/N539598PP.pdf; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539598/; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl0239; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/539598; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adl0239; 10.1126/science.adl0239 |
| Availability: |
Open access content. Open access content; cc_by_4 |
| Note: |
text; English |
| Other Numbers: |
UKNRA oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:539598; Sequeira, Ana M.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6906-799X ; Rodríguez, Jorge P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-5032 ; Marley, Sarah A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5950-4949 ; Calich, Hannah J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7541-9584 ; van der Mheen, Mirjam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6512-6200 ; VanCompernolle, Michelle; Arrowsmith, Lucy M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4558-6650 ; Peel, Lauren R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-5663 ; Queiroz, Nuno ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3860-7356 ; Vedor, Marisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7336-3732 ; da Costa, Ivo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6534-4603 ; Mucientes, Gonzalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-3020 ; Couto, Ana; Humphries, Nicolas E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-1594 ; Abalo-Morla, Sara; Abascal, Francisco J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8550-8617 ; Abercrombie, Debra L.; Abrantes, Katya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8648-8817 ; Abreu-Grobois, F. Alberto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7350-757X ; Afonso, André S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9129-278X ; Afonso, Pedro; Ahonen, Heidi; Åkesson, Susanne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9039-2180 ; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Andrews, Russel D.; Angelier, Frédéric; Antonopoulou, Marina; Arata, Javier A. ORCID: http; 1525200073 |
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NERC OPEN RES ARCH; From OAIster®, provided by the OCLC Cooperative. |
| Accession Number: |
edsoai.on1525200073 |
| Database: |
OAIster |