The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy.

ABSTRACT: 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 de

SUBMITTER: Dunn DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6784718 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature