The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Other literature type 25 Sep 2019 Italy, Australia, Spain, United States, United States, France, United Kingdom, United Kingdom English Publisher:The Royal SocietyJournal:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 286, page 20,191,472 (issn: 0962-8452, eissn: 1471-2954,

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Authors: Daniel C. Dunn; Autumn-Lynn Harrison; Corrie Curtice; Sarah DeLand; Ben Donnelly; Ei Fujioka; Eleanor I. Heywood; +64 Authors

doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1472 , 10.60692/df8p5-7yz95 , 10.60692/k5pxx-6yb43

pmid: 31551061

pmc: PMC6784718

handle: 10553/58317 , 2445/171862 , 10919/105282 , 11568/1013955 , 10088/99356 , 10871/38907

The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy

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The distributions of migratory species in the ocean span local, national and international jurisdictions. Across these ecologically interconnected regions, migratory marine species interact with anthropogenic stressors throughout their lives. Migratory connectivity, the geographical linking of individuals and populations throughout their migratory cycles, influences how spatial and temporal dynamics of stressors affect migratory animals and scale up to influence population abundance, distribution and species persistence. Population declines of many migratory marine species have led to calls for connectivity knowledge, especially insights from animal tracking studies, to be more systematically and synthetically incorporated into decision-making. Inclusion of migratory connectivity in the design of conservation and management measures is critical to ensure they are appropriate for the level of risk associated with various degrees of connectivity. Three mechanisms exist to incorporate migratory connectivity into international marine policy which guides conservation implementation: site-selection criteria, network design criteria and policy recommendations. Here, we review the concept of migratory connectivity and its use in international policy, and describe the Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean system, a migratory connectivity evidence-base for the ocean. We propose that without such collaboration focused on migratory connectivity, efforts to effectively conserve these critical species across jurisdictions will have limited effect.

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[SDE] Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics, migratory species, Marine protected area, DIVERSITY, Movements, CONVENTION, Medical and Health Sciences, 1100 Agricultural and Biological Sciences, TRACKING, Sociology, Marine Population Connectivity, Fish Population Dynamics, Patterns, Environmental resource management, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, area-based management, Diversity, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Geography, COASTAL, Tracking, 2400 Immunology and Microbiology, Biodiversity, Biological Sciences, areas beyond national jurisdiction, Area-based management; Areas beyond national jurisdiction; Marine spatial planning; Migratory species, Environmental Policy, FOS: Sociology, Protecció de la fauna, Fauna marina, Habitat, Coastal, Marine fauna, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Physical Sciences, marine spatial planning, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Ecology and Conservation of Marine Mammals, Espècies invasores, 2300 Environmental Science, 570, Conservation of Natural Resources, 1300 Biochemistry, Life on Land, Convention, Oceans and Seas, CONSERVATION, Population, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Sciences & Ecology, Conservation, 333, Environmental science, 07 Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Animals, Life Below Water, Biology, Consequences, Ecosystem, Demography, Evolutionary Biology, CONSEQUENCES, MOVEMENTS, Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences, Invasive species, Marine, Resilience of Coral Reef Ecosystems to Climate Change, Evidence Synthesis, 06 Biological Sciences, 240119 Zoología marina, Wildlife conservation, FOS: Biological sciences, Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Fisheries, Environmental Science, PATTERNS, BIODIVERSITY, Animal Migration, MARINE

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