Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean
International audience In the Southern Ocean, the impact of environmental changes and increasing human encroachment is causingdeclines in several populations of seabirds. Amsterdam island (77°33′E; 37°50′S) hosts some emblematic butglobally threatened seabird species with alarming population trends....
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-02097720v1 2023-05-15T13:22:24+02:00 Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean Heerah, K. Dias, M.P. Delord, K. Oppel, S. Barbraud, C. Weimerskirch, H. Bost, C. Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) BirdLife International Marine and Environmental Sciences Center Portugal RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Centre for Conservation Science 2019-06 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097720 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.037 en eng HAL CCSD Elsevier info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.037 hal-02097720 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097720 doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.037 ISSN: 0006-3207 Biological Conservation https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097720 Biological Conservation, 2019, 234, pp.192-201. ⟨10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.037⟩ Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas Seabirds Amsterdam Island Bio-logging [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.037 2023-01-04T00:02:35Z International audience In the Southern Ocean, the impact of environmental changes and increasing human encroachment is causingdeclines in several populations of seabirds. Amsterdam island (77°33′E; 37°50′S) hosts some emblematic butglobally threatened seabird species with alarming population trends. In 2017, concerns about AmsterdamIsland's marine biodiversity led to the extension of a marine reserve to the boundaries of the exclusive economiczone (EEZ). Nevertheless, it is unknown whether this protected area is sufficiently large to encompass the mostimportant foraging hotspots of the threatened seabirds, particularly during key stages of their life cycle (e.g.breeding period). We analysed movements of four threatened seabird species using a tracking dataset acquiredover several breeding seasons from Amsterdam Island: Amsterdam albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis, sootyalbatross Phoebetria fusca, Indian yellow-nosed albatross Thalassarche carteri and northern rockhopper penguinEudyptes moseleyi. Our objectives were threefold: (1) characterise the at-sea distribution of the above-mentionedpopulations and delineate the marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (mIBAs) triggered by them; (2)assess the potential threat at-sea by quantifying the overlap between seabird distribution and longline fishingefforts; (3) evaluate the coverage of identified mIBAs by marine protected areas and suggest complementaryconservation actions. The identified important areas fell within the boundaries of the EEZ, but vastly exceededthe former reserve. Thus, our results reinforce the justification of the recent expansion of the reserve to theboundaries of the EEZ. However, overall seabird distributions extended beyond the EEZ (5 to 50% of the locations)and we found substantial overlap with longline fishing in the high seas. Our results provide a spatiotemporalenvelope of where and when bycatch mitigation and observer coverage of longline fisheries should bemandated and enforced. Article in Journal/Newspaper Amsterdam Island Southern Ocean Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Indian Southern Ocean Biological Conservation 234 192 201 |
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International audience In the Southern Ocean, the impact of environmental changes and increasing human encroachment is causingdeclines in several populations of seabirds. Amsterdam island (77°33′E; 37°50′S) hosts some emblematic butglobally threatened seabird species with alarming population trends. In 2017, concerns about AmsterdamIsland's marine biodiversity led to the extension of a marine reserve to the boundaries of the exclusive economiczone (EEZ). Nevertheless, it is unknown whether this protected area is sufficiently large to encompass the mostimportant foraging hotspots of the threatened seabirds, particularly during key stages of their life cycle (e.g.breeding period). We analysed movements of four threatened seabird species using a tracking dataset acquiredover several breeding seasons from Amsterdam Island: Amsterdam albatross Diomedea amsterdamensis, sootyalbatross Phoebetria fusca, Indian yellow-nosed albatross Thalassarche carteri and northern rockhopper penguinEudyptes moseleyi. Our objectives were threefold: (1) characterise the at-sea distribution of the above-mentionedpopulations and delineate the marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (mIBAs) triggered by them; (2)assess the potential threat at-sea by quantifying the overlap between seabird distribution and longline fishingefforts; (3) evaluate the coverage of identified mIBAs by marine protected areas and suggest complementaryconservation actions. The identified important areas fell within the boundaries of the EEZ, but vastly exceededthe former reserve. Thus, our results reinforce the justification of the recent expansion of the reserve to theboundaries of the EEZ. However, overall seabird distributions extended beyond the EEZ (5 to 50% of the locations)and we found substantial overlap with longline fishing in the high seas. Our results provide a spatiotemporalenvelope of where and when bycatch mitigation and observer coverage of longline fisheries should bemandated and enforced. |
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Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC) La Rochelle Université (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE) BirdLife International Marine and Environmental Sciences Center Portugal RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Centre for Conservation Science |
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Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean |
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Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean |
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Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean |
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Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean |
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Important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the Southern Indian Ocean |
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important areas and conservation sites for a community of globally threatened marine predators of the southern indian ocean |
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ISSN: 0006-3207 Biological Conservation https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02097720 Biological Conservation, 2019, 234, pp.192-201. ⟨10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.037⟩ |
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