Regional Management Units for Marine Turtles: A Novel Framework for Prioritizing Conservation and Research across Multiple Scales

P. Wallace, Bryan; DiMatteo, Andrew; Hurley, Brendan; M. Finkbeiner, Elena; B. Bolten, Alan; Chaloupka, Milani; J. Hutchinson, Brian; Alberto Abreu‐Grobois, F.; Amorocho, Diego; A. Bjorndal, Karen; Bourjea, Jérôme; W. Bowen, Brian; Briseño Dueñas, Raquel; Casale, Paolo; C. Choudhury, B.; Gabrielle de Sousa Costa, Alice; H. Dutton, Peter; Fallabrino, Alejandro; Girard, Alexandre; Girondot, Marc; H. Godfrey, Matthew; Hamann, Mark; López‐Mendilaharsu, Milagros; Ângela Marcovaldi, Maria; A. Mortimer, Jeanne; A. Musick, John; Nel, Ronel; J. Pilcher, Nicolas; A. Seminoff, Jeffrey; Troëng, Sebastian; E. Witherington, Blair; B. Mast, Roderic

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0015465

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Regional Management Units for Marine Turtles: A Novel Framework for Prioritizing Conservation and Research across Multiple Scales

Published in PLoS ONE • Dec 17, 2010

Authors:

Bryan P. Wallace

Andrew DiMatteo

Brendan Hurley

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Resolving threats to widely distributed marine megafauna requires definition of the geographic distributions of both the threats as well as the population unit(s) of interest. In turn, because individual threats can operate on varying spatial scales, their impacts can affect different se...

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Marine protected area

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