The Future of Marine Animal Populations

Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze, Ian Jonsen, Catherine Muir

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4 Citations (Scopus)
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLife in the World's Oceans
Subtitle of host publicationDiversity, Distribution, and Abundance
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages313-330
Number of pages18
ISBN (Print)9781405192972
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 23 2010

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Engineering

Keywords

  • Biodiversity patterns and their drivers
  • Census of marine life's overarching goal - to assess and explain diversity and distribution
  • Changing patterns of biodiversity or species richness - changes in abundance and distribution of individual populations
  • Ecosystem consequences
  • FMAP studies, focus on large pelagic predators - as tuna and billfish, whales, and sharks
  • FMAP, collaborating with other Census - HMAP, Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP), and OBIS and various deep-sea projects
  • Foraging patterns, adult male and female grey seals and adult or sub-adult leatherback turtles
  • Future of marine animal populations
  • Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) project
  • Oceans future

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