Resilience of marine mega-fauna
This work recognizes that managers and practitioners should give high priority to increase biodiversity’s resilience to environmental change until climate change impacts manifest themselves. However, to manage for resilience there is the need to understand current threats and the factors that determines species resilience and their relative importance in shaping the ability of species to adjust to environmental changes. Topics of interest include:
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Key collaborators: Helene Marsh, Bob Pressey, Bryan Wallace, Brooke Bateman
Funding: Save Our Seas Foundation, Australian Research Council, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.
- Cumulative and synergetic threats to marine mega-fauna.
- Resilience of marine mega-fauna, metrics to measure resilience.
Specific Project:
- Cumulative impacts of coastal construction on nesting sea turtles in Florida.
Publications:
- Riskas KA, Fuentes MMPB, Hamman M. (2016) Justifying the need for collaborative management of fisheries bycatch: a lesson from marine turtles in Australia. Biological Conservation, 196, 40-47.
- Fuentes MMPB, Pike DA, Dimatteo A, Wallace BP (2013) Resilience of marine turtle regional management units to climate change. Global Change Biology. 19, 1399–1406
Key collaborators: Helene Marsh, Bob Pressey, Bryan Wallace, Brooke Bateman
Funding: Save Our Seas Foundation, Australian Research Council, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.