Study identifies priority regions for conservation of iconic large marine animals
Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 08:01
in Biology & Nature
A team of researchers, and from the Universities of Exeter, Plymouth and Southampton and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), has brought together several decades of scientific literature about animals that are known to be associated with ocean fronts in different parts of the global ocean, and why. The findings, published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, show that oceanic fronts - areas where nutrients are drawn together resulting in foraging hotspots - should be priority regions for conservation efforts.