Refuges and risks: Evaluating the benefits of an expanded MPA network for mobile apex predators

• Published in: Diversity & distributions Vol. 24; no. 9/10; pp. 1217 - 1230
• Main Authors: Daly, Ryan, Smale, Malcolm J., Singh, Sarika, Anders, Darrell, Shivji, Mahmood, Daly, Clare A. K., Lea, James S. E., Sousa, Lara L., Wetherbee, Bradley M., Fitzpatrick, Richard, Clarke, Christopher R., Sheaves, Marcus, Barnett, Adam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.09.2018; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Aquatic habitats; BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH; coasts; Conservation; Culling; Fish conservation; Fisheries; Fishing; Galeocerdo cuvier; habitat preferences; Habitat utilization; Habitats; humans; Indian Ocean; longline fisheries; Management planning; marine protected area; Marine protected areas; Mozambique; planning; Predators; Protected areas; risk; satellite telemetry; satellites; Sharks; South Africa; Spatial data; Species; top predators; Wireless networks; South Africa; Mozambique; Indian Ocean

Aim: Concurrently, assessing the effectiveness of marine protected areas and evaluating the degree of risk from humans to key species provide valuable information that can be integrated into conservation management planning. Tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) are a wide-ranging ecologically important...