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Geospatial approaches to support pelagic conservation planning and adaptive management
Pelagic ecosystems provide essential habitat for protected species, play a vital role in global climate regulation, and support productive fisheries. Place-based management in the open ocean faces unique challenges in attaching boundaries around temporally and spatially dynamic systems that span broad geographic scales and multiple jurisdictions in the ‘high seas’. However, recent conceptual and technological advances have supported the information requirements necessary to map and monitor the oceanographic processes that create spatially explicit patterns of ocean productivity, protected species abundance and biodiversity in the open ocean.
This Theme Section of ESR seeks to bridge the gap between geospatial science and marine conservation in order to consider the development of innovative methods necessary to support effective marine conservation planning strategies for pelagic ecosystems. This Theme Section assembles papers presented in a special session at the Society for Conservation Biology conference, convened in July of 2012 (see www.scbnacongress.org).
Editorial Team for the Theme Section: Dr. David Hyrenbach, Hawaii Pacific University (Guest Editor); Dr. Patrick Halpin, Duke Universty (Guest Editor); Daniel Dunn, Duke University (Guest Editor); Dr. Sara Maxwell, Stanford University (Guest Editor); Dr. Lisa M. Wedding, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford University (Guest and Contact Editor; lwedding(at)stanford.edu).
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Wedding LM, Maxwell SM, Hyrenbach D, Dunn DC, Roberts JJ, Briscoe D, Hines E, Halpin PN
OVERVIEW: Geospatial approaches to support pelagic conservation planning and adaptive management
ESR 30:1-9 | Full text in pdf format
Becker EA, Forney KA, Foley DG, Smith RC, Moore TJ, Barlow J
Predicting seasonal density patterns of California cetaceans based on habitat models
ESR 23:1-22 | Full text in pdf format
Pereira JJ, Schultz ET, Auster PJ
Geospatial analysis of habitat use by silver hake Merluccius bilinearis in the Gulf of Maine
ESR 23:219-227 | Full text in pdf format
Fujioka E, Halpin PN
Spatio-temporal assessments of biodiversity in the high seas
ESR 24:181-190 | Full text in pdf format
Dransfield A, Hines E, McGowan J, Holzman B, Nur N, Elliott M, Howar J, Jahncke J
Where the whales are: using habitat modeling to support changes in shipping regulations within National Marine Sanctuaries in Central California
ESR 26:39-57 | Full text in pdf format
Maxwell SM, Ban NC, Morgan LE
Pragmatic approaches for effective management of pelagic marine protected areas
ESR 26:59-74 | Full text in pdf format
Forney KA, Becker EA, Foley DG, Barlow J, Oleson EM
Habitat-based models of cetacean density and distribution in the central North Pacific
ESR 27:1-20 | Full text in pdf format
Briscoe DK, Maxwell SM, Kudela R, Crowder LB, Croll D
NOTE: Are we missing important areas in pelagic marine conservation? Redefining conservation hotspots in the ocean