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SUBMITTER: Lea JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4947889 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lea James S E JS Humphries Nicolas E NE von Brandis Rainer G RG Clarke Christopher R CR Sims David W DW
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160701 1834
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are commonly employed to protect ecosystems from threats like overfishing. Ideally, MPA design should incorporate movement data from multiple target species to ensure sufficient habitat is protected. We used long-term acoustic telemetry and network analysis to determine the fine-scale space use of five shark and one turtle species at a remote atoll in the Seychelles, Indian Ocean, and evaluate the efficacy of a proposed MPA. Results revealed strong, species-specific ...[more]