Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 580; no. 7801; pp. 87 - 92
• Main Authors: Hindell, Mark A., Reisinger, Ryan R., Ropert-Coudert, Yan, Hückstädt, Luis A., Trathan, Philip N., Bornemann, Horst, Charrassin, Jean-Benoît, Chown, Steven L., Costa, Daniel P., Danis, Bruno, Lea, Mary-Anne, Thompson, David, Torres, Leigh G., Van de Putte, Anton P., Alderman, Rachael, Andrews-Goff, Virginia, Arthur, Ben, Ballard, Grant, Bengtson, John, Bester, Marthán N., Blix, Arnoldus Schytte, Boehme, Lars, Bost, Charles-André, Boveng, Peter, Cleeland, Jaimie, Constantine, Rochelle, Corney, Stuart, Crawford, Robert J. M., Dalla Rosa, Luciano, de Bruyn, P. J. Nico, Delord, Karine, Descamps, Sébastien, Double, Mike, Emmerson, Louise, Fedak, Mike, Friedlaender, Ari, Gales, Nick, Goebel, Michael E., Goetz, Kimberly T., Guinet, Christophe, Goldsworthy, Simon D., Harcourt, Rob, Hinke, Jefferson T., Jerosch, Kerstin, Kato, Akiko, Kerry, Knowles R., Kirkwood, Roger, Kooyman, Gerald L., Kovacs, Kit M., Lawton, Kieran, Lowther, Andrew D., Lydersen, Christian, Lyver, Phil O’B., Makhado, Azwianewi B., Márquez, Maria E. I., McDonald, Birgitte I., McMahon, Clive R., Muelbert, Monica, Nachtsheim, Dominik, Nicholls, Keith W., Nordøy, Erling S., Olmastroni, Silvia, Phillips, Richard A., Pistorius, Pierre, Plötz, Joachim, Pütz, Klemens, Ratcliffe, Norman, Ryan, Peter G., Santos, Mercedes, Southwell, Colin, Staniland, Iain, Takahashi, Akinori, Tarroux, Arnaud, Trivelpiece, Wayne, Wakefield, Ewan, Weimerskirch, Henri, Wienecke, Barbara, Xavier, José C., Wotherspoon, Simon, Jonsen, Ian D., Raymond, Ben
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2020; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/1144; 631/158/672; Animal Identification Systems; Animals; Antarctic Regions; Aquatic Organisms - physiology; Biodiversity; Biogeochemistry; Biomass; Birds; Climate change; Climate Change - statistics & numerical data; Climatic changes; Conservation of Natural Resources - methods; Continental shelves; Ecosystem; Ecosystems; Emission standards; Environmental aspects; Environmental Sciences; Fisheries; Fishes; Fishing; Food Chain; Food chains; Habitats; Humanities and Social Sciences; Ice Cover; Mammals; Marine ecosystems; multidisciplinary; Oceans; Oceans and Seas; Population Dynamics; Predators; Predatory Behavior; Pressure; Productivity; Resource exploitation; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Threat evaluation; Tracking; Antarctic Regions; Australia; Antarctic Peninsula; Southern Ocean

Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate change 1 , 2 . Mitigation requires the identification and protection of Areas of Ecological Significance (AESs), which have so far not been determined at the ocean-basin scale. Here, using assemblage-level tracking o...