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Using insights from animal behaviour and behavioural ecology to inform marine conservation initiatives

Overview of attention for article published in Animal Behaviour, April 2016
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Title
Using insights from animal behaviour and behavioural ecology to inform marine conservation initiatives
Published in
Animal Behaviour, April 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.03.012
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Rohan M. Brooker, William E. Feeney, James R. White, Rachel P. Manassa, Jacob L. Johansen, Danielle L. Dixson

Abstract

The impacts of human activities on the natural world are becoming increasingly apparent, with rapid development and exploitation occurring at the expense of habitat quality and biodiversity. Declines are especially concerning in the oceans, which hold intrinsic value due to their biological uniqueness as well as their substantial sociological and economic importance. Here, we review the literature and investigate whether incorporation of knowledge from the fields of animal behaviour and behavioural ecology may improve the effectiveness of conservation initiatives in marine systems. In particular, we consider (1) how knowledge of larval behaviour and ecology may be used to inform the design of marine protected areas, (2) how protecting species that hold specific ecological niches may be of particular importance for maximizing the preservation of biodiversity, (3) how current harvesting techniques may be inadvertently skewing the behavioural phenotypes of stock populations and whether changes to current practices may lessen this skew and reinforce population persistence, and (4) how understanding the behavioural and physiological responses of species to a changing environment may provide essential insights into areas of particular vulnerability for prioritized conservation attention. The complex nature of conservation programmes inherently results in interdisciplinary responses, and the incorporation of knowledge from the fields of animal behaviour and behavioural ecology may increase our ability to stem the loss of biodiversity in marine environments.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 193 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 40 20%
Student > Bachelor 32 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 14%
Researcher 25 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 6%
Other 21 11%
Unknown 43 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 86 43%
Environmental Science 38 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 4%
Social Sciences 6 3%
Psychology 3 2%
Other 11 6%
Unknown 48 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 March 2020.
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#2,414,201
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Outputs from Animal Behaviour
#1,183
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#37,897
of 312,743 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Animal Behaviour
#27
of 91 outputs
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