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Protected Species Research Publications - Human Impacts
These publications cover a variety of issues resulting from human activities including bycatch in fisheries, previous human exploitation, exposure to toxins and pollution, habitat alterations, entanglement issues, and man-made ocean noise.
Bradbury et al. 2016. Genetic mixed stock analysis disentangles spatial and temporal variation in composition of the West Greenland Atlantic Salmon fishery. ICES Journal of Marine Science
Carlson et al. 2016. Characterizing loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, bycatch in the US shark bottom longline fishery. Bulletin of Marine Science
Conner et al. 2016. Evaluating impacts using a BACI design, ratios, and a Bayesian approach with a focus on restoration. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Dias et al. 2016. Evidence of cetaceans' exposure to petroleum products following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Endangered Species Research
Eguchi et al. 2016. Predicting overlap between drift gillnet fishing and leatherback turtle habitat in the California Current Ecosystem. Fisheries Oceanography
Jaramillo-Legorreta et al. 2016. Passive acoustic monitoring of the decline of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita. Conservation Biology
Leitwein et al. 2016. Ancestry and adaptive evolution of anadromous, resident, and adfluvial rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in the San Francisco Bay Area: application of adaptive genomic variation to conservation in a highly impacted landscape. Evolutionary Applications
Martin et al. 2016. An ecosystem services perspective for the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific: commercial fisheries, carbon storage, recreational fishing, and biodiversity. Frontiers in Marine Science
McIntyre et al. 2016. Severe coal tar sealcoat runoff toxicity to fish is reversed by bioretention infiltration. Environmental Science & Technology
Meador et al. 2016. Contaminants of emerging concern in a large temperate estuary. Environmental Pollution
Miller et al. 2016. Detecting sedimentation impacts to coral reefs resulting from dredging the Port of Miami, Florida USA. PeerJ
Miller et al. 2016. Reef-scale trends in Florida Acropora spp. abundance and the effects of population enhancement. PeerJ
Monteiro et al. 2016. Long-term spatial and temporal patterns of sea turtle strandings in southern Brazil. Marine Biology
Moser et al. 2016. Biology and life history of green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris): state of the science. Journal of Applied Ichthyology
Ortiz et al. 2016. Reducing green sea turtle bycatch in small-scale fisheries using illuminated gillnets: the cost of saving a sea turtle. Marine Ecology Progress Series
Penaluna et al. 2016. Conservation of native Pacific trout diversity in western North America. Fisheries Magazine
Yan Jiao and Browder. 2015. Modeling spatially-varying ecological relationships using geographically weighted Generalized Linear Model: a simulation study based on longline seabird bycatch. Fisheries Research
Ylitalo et al. 2016. Determining oil and dispersant exposure in sea turtles from the northern Gulf of Mexico resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Endangered Species Research
2017
Arkoosh et al. 2017. Alteration of thyroid hormone concentrations in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) exposed to polybrominated diphenyl ethers, BDE-47 and BDE-99. Chemosphere
Baumgartner et al. 2017. North Atlantic right whale foraging ecology and its role in human caused mortality. Marine Ecology Progress Series
Borggaard et al. 2017. Managing U.S. Atlantic large whale entanglements: Four guiding principles. Marine Policy
Byrd et al. 2017. Differential risk of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) bycatch in North Carolina, USA. Aquatic Mammals
Chasco et al. 2017. Competing tradeoffs between increasing marine mammal predation and fisheries harvest of Chinook Salmon. Scientific Reports
Cholewiak et aql. 2017. Beaked whales demonstrate marked acoustic response to shipboard echosounders. Royal Society Open Science
Fahlman et al. 2017. Defining risk variables causing gas embolism in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) caught in trawls and gillnets. Scientific Reports
Feist et al. 2017. Roads to ruin: conservation threats to a sentinel species across an urban gradient. Ecological Applications
Forney et al. 2017. Nowhere to go: noise impact assessments for marine mammal populations with high site fidelity. Endangered Species Research
Hall et al. 2018. Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival. Environmental Pollution
Heenan et al. 2017. Long-term monitoring dataset of coral reef fish assemblages in the Western Central Pacific. Scientific Reports
Hinke et al. 2017. Identifying risk: Concurrent overlap of the Antarctic krill fishery with krill-dependent predators in the Scotia Sea. PLoS One
Holst et al. 2017. Cetacean sightings and acoustic detections during a seismic survey off Nicaragua and Costa Rica, November-December 2004. International Journal of Tropical Biology
Holt et al. 2017. Noise levels received by endangered killer whales (Orcinus orca) before and after vessel regulations. Endangered Species Research
Liermann et al. 2017. Relocation and Recolonization of Coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in two tributaries to the Elwha River: Implications for management and monitoring. Transactions of the American Fishery Society
Lopez Arriaza et al. 2017. Size-conditional smolting and the response of Carmel River steelhead to two decades of conservation efforts. PLoS One
Meador et al. 2017. Determining potential adverse effects in marine fish exposed to pharmaceuticals and personal care products with the fish plasma model and whole-body tissue concentrations. Environmental Pollution
Raverty et al. 2017. Respiratory microbiome of endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales and microbiota of surrounding sea surface microlayer in the Eastern North Pacific. Scientific Reports
Redfern et al. 2017. Assessing the risk of chronic shipping noise to baleen whales off Southern California, USA. Endangered Species Research
Reinhardt et al. 2017. Catch rate and at-vessel mortality of circle hooks versus J-hooks in pelagic longline fisheries: a global meta-analysis. Fish and Fisheries.
Soldevilla et al. 2017. Spatial distribution and dive behavior of Gulf of Mexico Bryde’s whales: potential risk for vessel strikes and fisheries interactions. Endangered Species Research
Stone et al. 2017. A five-year, in situ growth study on shallow-water populations of the gorgonian octocoral (Calcigorgia spiculifera) in the Gulf of Alaska. PLoS One
Taylor et al. 2017. Extinction is imminent for Mexico's endemic porpoise unless fishery bycatch is eliminated. Conservation Letters
Tolimieri et al. 2017. Population assessment using multivariate time‐series analysis: a case study of rockfishes in Puget Sound. Ecology and Evolution
Van Oppen et al. 2017. Shifting paradigms in restoration of the world’s coral reefs. Global Change Biology
Waples et al. 2017. Human-mediated evolution in a threatened species? Juvenile life-history changes in Snake River salmon. Evolutionary Applications
Ward et al. 2017. Evaluating signals of oil spill impacts, climate, and species interactions in Pacific herring and Pacific salmon populations in Prince William Sound and Copper River, Alaska. PLoS One
Wilkin et al. 2017. Marine mammal response operations during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Endangered Species Research
2018
Arkoosh et al. 2018. Dietary exposure to a binary mixture of polybrominated diphenyl ethers alters innate immunity and disease susceptibility in juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
Balmer et al. 2018. Long-term trends in a northern Gulf of Mexico common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management
Braun McNeill et al. 2018. Trends in fishery-dependent captures of sea turtles in a western North Atlantic foraging region. Endangered Species Research
Caretta, JV. 2018. A machine-learning approach to assign species to 'unidentified' entangled whales. Endangered Species Research
Chittaro et al. 2018. Variability in the performance of juvenile Chinook salmon is explained primarily by when and where they resided in estuarine habitats. Ecology of Fresh Water Fish
Farmer et al. 2018. Resilience of the endangered sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus to foraging disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico, USA: a bioenergetic approach.Marine Ecology Progress Series
Farmer et al. 2018. Population consequences of disturbance by offshore oil and gas activity for endangered sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Biological Conservation
Gorospe et al. 2018. Local biomass baselines and the recovery potential for Hawaiian coral reef fish communities.Frontiers in Marine Science
Hall et al. 2018. Predicting the effects of polychlorinated biphenyls on cetacean populations through impacts on immunity and calf survival.Environmental Pollution
Harborne et al. 2018. Modelling and mapping regional‐scale patterns of fishing impact and fish stocks to support coral‐reef management in Micronesia.Diversity and Distributions
Haver et al. 2018. Monitoring long-term soundscape trends in U.S. waters: The NOAA/NPS Ocean Noise Reference Station Network.Marine Policy
Olsen et al. 2018. Ocean futures under ocean acidification, marine protection, and changing fishing pressures explored using a worldwide suite of ecosystem models. Frontiers in Marine Science
Richerson et al. 2018. Predicting the economic impacts of the 2017 West Coast salmon troll ocean fishery closure.Marine Policy
Stimmelmayr et al. 2018. Oil fouling in subsistence-harvested ringed (Phoca hispida) and spotted seals (Phoca largha) from the Bering Strait region, Alaska: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon bile and tissue levels and pathological findings. Marine Pollution Bulletin
Stoffel et al. 2018. Demographic histories and genetic diversity across pinnipeds are shaped by human exploitation, ecology and life-history.Nature Communications
Wetzel et al. 2018. The effect of reduced data on the ability to monitor rebuilding of overfished fish stocks. Fishery Bulletin
2019
Barraza et al. 2019. Trace metals in green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) inhabiting two southern California coastal estuaries.Chemosphere
Brame et al. 2019. Biology, ecology, and status of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in the USA.Endangered Species Research
Brownell et al. 2019. Bycatch in gillnet fisheries threatens Critically Endangered small cetaceans and other aquatic megafauna. Endangered Species Research
Hildebrand et al. 2019. Assessing seasonality and density from passive acoustic monitoring of signals presumed to be from pygmy and dwarf sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science
Joyce et al. 2019. Behavioral responses of satellite tracked Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) to mid-frequency active sonar. Marine Mammal Science
Melvin et al. 2019. Lessons from seabird conservation in Alaskan longline fisheries. Conservation Biology
National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Research Review of Interventions to Increase the Persistence and Resilience of Coral Reefs. The National Academia Press
Sharp et al. 2019. Gross and histopathologic diagnoses from North Atlantic right whale (Eubalena glacialis) mortalities between 2003 and 2018. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms
Wood et al. 2019. Rates of increase in gray seal (Halichoerus grypus atlantica) pupping at recolonized U.S. sites, 1988-2019. Journal of Mammalogy
Woodworth-Jefcoats et al. 2019. Relative impacts of simultaneous stressors on a pelagic marine ecosystem. Frontiers in Marine Science
Zarri et al. 2019. Managing hydropower dam releases for water users and imperiled fishes with contrasting thermal habitat requirements. Journal of Applied Ecology
Zollett and Swimmer. 2019.Safe handling practices to increase post-capture survival of cetaceans, sea turtles, seabirds, sharks, and billfish in tuna fisheries.Endangered Species Research
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An immature green sea turtle swims above a coral reef at Baker Island in the Pacific Island Remote Area. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
Southern Resident killer whales encountered during NOAA's PODs (Pacific Orcinus Distribution Survey) in October 2021 near the west end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Credit: NOAA Fisheries