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SUMMARY:Tracking oceanic sharks’ ups and downs in a changing world - Dav
 id Sims (Marine Biological Association)
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CONTACT:Dr Emily Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Oceanic pelagic sharks have declined globally over the past ha
 lf century due to overfishing. Conservation and management actions are ham
 pered by basic knowledge gaps about movement patterns\, migratory routes\,
  drivers of aggregations\, climate change impacts\, and precisely where th
 ey overlap with fishers across population ranges. Without knowing where sh
 arks go and when\, and what they do in different habitats\, it will remain
  challenging to understand the impacts of future environmental changes on 
 populations in the face of continued anthropogenic threats. In this semina
 r I will describe my team’s research with bio-logging technologies to un
 derstand how pelagic shark movement patterns alter in response to variatio
 ns in environment\, and what this means for understanding habitat selectio
 n and their interactions with fishing vessel distributions. I will describ
 e how this knowledge can help conserve shark populations\, especially in t
 he light of climate warming and ocean deoxygenation\, because interaction 
 of human exploitation and climate change will have important consequences 
 for how sharks are managed in the warmer oceans of the future.
LOCATION:Zoom
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