ReviewBiological conservation2021
The power of national acoustic tracking networks to assess the impacts of human activity on marine organisms during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Understanding vessel noise across a network of marine protected areas.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2024Article
- Exploring spatio-temporal changes in coastal recreational fisheries and potential links to extreme weather events.PloS one · 2024Article
- A vision for incorporating human mobility in the study of human-wildlife interactions.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Review
- Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australian fisheries production, research organisations and assessment: shocks, responses and implications for decision support and resilience.Reviews in fish biology and fisheries · 2023Article
- Toward a decade of ocean science for sustainable development through acoustic animal tracking.Global change biology · 2022Review
- Effects of a COVID-19 lockdown-induced pause and resumption of artificial provisioning on blacktip reef sharks (Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie · 2022Article
- How the COVID-19 Pandemic Muted and Remixed the World's Acoustics for a While.Current pollution reports · 2022Review
- Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment.Biological conservation · 2021Article
- Nature, COVID-19, disease prevention, and climate change.Biological conservation · 2021Article
- The conservation and ecological impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.Biological conservation · 2021Article
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Abstract
COVID-19 restrictions have led to an unprecedented global hiatus in anthropogenic activities, providing a unique opportunity to assess human impact on biological systems. Here, we describe how a national network of acoustic tracking receivers can be leveraged to assess the effects of human activity on animal movement and space use during such global disruptions. We outline variation in restrictions on human activity across Australian states and describe four mechanisms affecting human interactions with the marine environment: 1) reduction in economy and trade changing shipping traffic; 2) changes in export markets affecting commercial fisheries; 3) alterations in recreational activities; and 4) decline in tourism. We develop a roadmap for the analysis of acoustic tracking data across various scales using Australia's national Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Animal Tracking Facility as a case study. We illustrate the benefit of sustained observing systems and monitoring programs by assessing how a 51-day break in white shark (
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