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SUBMITTER: Worm B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC187874 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Worm Boris B Lotze Heike K HK Myers Ransom A RA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030807 17
Concentrations of biodiversity, or hotspots, represent conservation priorities in terrestrial ecosystems but remain largely unexplored in marine habitats. In the open ocean, many large predators such as tunas, sharks, billfishes, and sea turtles are of current conservation concern because of their vulnerability to overfishing and ecosystem role. Here we use scientific-observer records from pelagic longline fisheries in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to show that oceanic predators concentrate in ...[more]