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Preprints, peer-reviewed papers, commentaries & reports 2016-2021

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REPORTS
Fordham SV, Jabado RW, Kyne PM, Charvet P, Dulvy NK. 2018. Saving Sawfish: Progress and Priorities. IUCN Shark Specialist Group, Vancouver, Canada. 6 pp.

Jabado RW, Kyne PM, Pollom R, Ebert DA, Simpfendorfer CA, Dulvy NK (2017) The Conservation Status of Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras in the  Arabian Sea and adjacent waters. Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi and IUCN Species Survival Commission Shark Specialist Group. Vancouver, Canada, ISBN: 978-9948-10-050-8.

Dulvy NK, Allen DJ, Ralph GM, Walls RL. 2016.
The conservation status of Sharks, Rays and in the Mediterranean Sea.
IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation Marie Curie, 22. 29590, Campanillas, Málaga, Spain. 6+6 pp.  DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22020.53129

Bräutigam A, Callow M, Campbell IR, Camhi MD, Cornish A, Dulvy NK, Fordham SV, Fowler SL, Hood A, McClennen C, Reuter EL, Sant  G, Simpfendorfer CA, Welch DJ  2015.
Global Strategy for the Conservation of Sharks and Rays (2015‐2025).

BOOK CHAPTERS
Dulvy NK, Trebilco R (2018) Size-based insights into the ecosystem role of sharks and rays.
In: Carrier J, Heithaus MR, Simpfendorfer CA (eds) Shark Research: Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Field and Laboratory. vol 1. CRC Press, Boca Ranton, p 25-44.

Dulvy NK, Kindsvater HH. 2017. Future Species of Anthropocene Seas.
In Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean, Levin PR, Poe MR (eds). Elsevier. (email me for copy)

PAPERS
2021
                                    


Shiffman DS, Macdonald CM, Wallace SS and Dulvy NK. (2021) The role and value of science in shark conservation advocacy. Scientific Reports. (Comming out next week - August)

Walls RHL
and Dulvy NK. (2021) Tracking the rising extinction risk of sharks and rays in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports 11, 15397.

Prinzing TS, Zang Y, Wegner NC and Dulvy NK. (2021) Analytical methods matter too: Establishing a framework for estimating maximum metabolic rate for fishes. Ecology and Evolution 11, 9987–10003.


Wong S, Bigman JS and Dulvy NK (2021) The metabolic pace of life histories across fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 288: 20210910

Wong S, Bigman JS, Yopak KE and Dulvy NK (2021) Gill surface area provides a clue for the respiratory basis of brain size in the blacktip shark (Carcharhinus limbatus). Journal of Fish Biology. 1-9. 10.1111/jfb.14797

Mann ME, Hall LJ and Dulvy NK. (2021) Scientific impact in a changing world. Cell 184, 1407-1408.

Bigman JS, M’Gonigle L, Wegner NC and Dulvy NK (Coming out on May 5th 2021) Respiratory capacity is twice as important as temperature in driving patterns of metabolic rate across the vertebrate tree of life.
Science Advances 7, eabe5163. figshare


Yan, H.F., Kyne, P.M., Jabado, R.W., Leeney, R.H., Davidson, N.K., Derrick, D.H., Finucci, B., Freckleton, R.P., Fordham, S.V. and Dulvy, N.K. (2021) Overfishing and habitat loss drives range contraction of iconic marine fishes to near extinction. Science Advances 7, eabb6026. Github

Pacoureau N, Rigby CL, Kyne PK, Carlson JC, Fernando D, Francis M, Jabado RW, Fordham SV, Herman KB, Liu K-M, Marshall A, Pollom R, Romanov E, Sherley R, Simpfendorfer, C.A., Yin, J.S., Kindsvater, H.K. and Dulvy, N.K. (2021)
Half a century of global decline in oceanic pelagic sharks and rays. Nature 589, 567–571. PDF SM


Finucci B, Cheok J, Ebert DA, Herman K, Kyne PM and Dulvy NK (2021) Ghosts of the deep–Biodiversity, fisheries, and extinction risk of ghost sharks. Fish and Fisheries 22, 391–412.

2020                                    

VanderWright W, Bigman, J.S., Elcombe, C., and Dulvy, N.K. (2020). Gill slits provide a window into the respiratory physiology of sharks. Conservation Physiology. doi:10.1093/conphys/coaa102

Walls RL, Dulvy NK. 2020. Eliminating the dark matter of Data Deficiency by predicting the conservation status of sharks and rays in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. Biological Conservation. 246, 108459. URL

Derrick DH, Cheok J, Dulvy NK (2020) Spatially congruent sites of importance for global shark and ray biodiversity. PLoS ONE 15, e0235559. github

Kyne PK, Jabado RW, Rigby CL, Dharmadi, Gore MA, Pollock CM, Herman KB, Cheok J, Ebert DA, Simpfendorfer CA, Dulvy NK. 2020.
The thin edge of the wedge: extremely high extinction risk in wedgefishes and giant guitarfishes.
Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 30,
1337-1361. URL

Mull CG, Yopak KE, Dulvy NK. 2020. Matrotrophy, ecological lifestyle, and the evolution of brain size and structure in sharks, rays, and chimaeras. American Naturalist.  Data on Dryad

Shiffman DS, Bittick SJ, Cashion MS, Colla SR, Coristine LE, Derrick DH, Gow EA, Macdonald CM, More O’Ferrall M, Orobko M, Pollom RA, Provencher J, Dulvy NK. 2020. Biased and inaccurate global media coverage underlies public misunderstanding of shark conservation threats and solutions. iScience 23, (6),
101205.

Shiffman DS, Ajemian MJ, Carrier J, Daly-Engel TS, Davis M, Dulvy NK, Grubbs RD, Hinojosa NA, Imhoff J, Kolmann M, Nash C, Paig-Tran EWM, Peele EE, Skubel RA, Wetherbee B, Whitenack L, Wyffels JT. 2020.
Trends in chondrichthyan research: An analysis of three decades of conference abstracts. Copeia. 108, 122-131

Lawson JM, Pollom RP, Gordon C, Barker J, Meyer EKM, Zidowitz H, Ellis JR, Morey G, Fowler SL, Bartoli A, Jiménez DA, Fordham SV, Sharp R, Hood AR, Dulvy NK. 2020. Global extinction risk and conservation of Critically Endangered angel sharks in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea.
International Council for the Exploration of the Seas Journal of Marine Science 77:12-29.

2019                                    
Sherley RB, Winker H, Rigby CL, Kyne PM, Pacoureau N, Carlson JK, Pollom R, Yin JS, Kindsvater HK, Dulvy NK. 2019. Estimating IUCN Red List population reduction: JARA – a decision-support tool applied to pelagic sharks.
Conservation Letters. UNSP e12688. github


Hiddink JG, Shepperson J, Bater R, Goonesekera D, Dulvy NK. 2019. Near disappearance of the Angelshark Squatina squatina over half a century of observations. Conservation Science and Practice. 1:e97 doi.org/10.1111/csp2.97

Horswill C, Kindsvater HK, Juan-Jordá M-J, Dulvy NK, Mangel M, Matthiopoulos J. 2019.
Global reconstruction of life-history strategies - A case study using tunas. Journal Of Applied Ecology. 56: 855-865

Bigman J, Pardo S, Prinzig TS, Dando M, Wegner NC, Dulvy NK. 2019
Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area. Journal of Morphology. 279: 1716-1724

Kindsvater HH, Dulvy NK, Horswill C, Juan-Jordá M-J, Mangel M, Matthiopoulos J (2018)
Overcoming the data crisis in biodiversity conservation Trends In Ecology & Evolution. 33: 676-686

Leeney RH, Mana RR, Dulvy NK (2018) Fishers’ Ecological Knowledge of Sawfishes in the Sepik and Ramu rivers, north-eastern Papua New Guinea. Endangered Species Research 36:15-26.

Stein RW, Mull CG, Kuhn TS, Aschliman NC, Davidson LNK, Joy JB, Smith GJ, Dulvy NK, Mooers AØ. 2018.
Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays, and chimaeras.
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 288–298
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0448-4 #OA http://summit.sfu.ca/item/17634

Juan-Jordá MJ, Arrizabalaga H, Dulvy NK, & Murua H 2018.
Report card on ecosystem-based fisheries management in tuna regional fisheries management organizations.
Fish and Fisheries. 19, 321-339. DOI: 10.1111/faf.12256

Pardo SA, Cooper AB, Reynolds JD, Dulvy NK. 2018.
Quantifying the known unknowns: estimating maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in the face of uncertainty. ICES Journal of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsx220 
#OA

Anderson SC, Branch TA, Cooper AB, & Dulvy NK (2017)
Migration and population growth rate in animal black-swan events.
PNAS. doi:  10.1073/pnas.1714157114

Anderson SC, Branch TA, Cooper AB, Dulvy NK. 2017.
Black-swan events in animal populations PNAS 114: 3252-3257

Blanchard JL, Watson RA, Fulton EA, Cottrell RS, Nash KL, Buchholz A, Büchner M, Carozza D, Cheung WC, Elliot J, Elliot, J, Davidson LNK, Dulvy NK, Dunne JP, Eddy T, Galbraith E, Lotze H, Maury O, Müller C, Tittensor DP, Jennings S. 2017. Linked sustainability challenges and trade-offs among fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture.
Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1: 1240–1249

Davidson LNK, Dulvy NK. 2017.
Global marine protected areas to prevent extinctions.
Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 0040

Fernandes PG, Ralph GM, Nieto A, M. GC, Vasilakopoulos P, Maravelias CD, Cook R, Pollom RA, Kovačić M, Pollard D, ... Dulvy NK & Carpenter KE. 2017.
Coherent assessments of Europe’s marine fishes show regional divergence & megafauna loss
Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0170 #OA http://summit.sfu.ca/item/17640

Dulvy NK, Simpfendorfer CA, Davidson LNK, Fordham SV, Bräutigam A, Sant G, Welch DJ. 2017. Challenges and Priorities in Shark and Ray Conservation
Current Biology. 27: R565 - R572, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.038

Simpfendorfer CA, Dulvy NK. 2017.
Bright spots of sustainable shark fishing.
Current Biology 27: R97-R98.

Lawson JM, Walls RHL, Fordham SV, O'Malley MP, Heupel MR, Stevens G, Fernando D, Budziak A, Simpfendorfer CA, Davidson LNK, Ender, I, Francis, MP, Notarbartolo di Sciara, G, Dulvy, NK 2017.
Sympathy for the devil: a conservation strategy for devil and manta rays
PeerJ 5:e3027; DOI 10.7717/peerj.3027

Arthington AH, Dulvy NK, Gladstone W, Winfield IJ. 2016.
Fish Conservation in Freshwater and Marine Realms: Status, Threats and Management. Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 26: 838-857

McClenachan L, Cooper AB, Dulvy NK. 2016.
Rethinking trade-driven extinction risk in marine and terrestrial megafauna.
Current Biology. 26: 1640-1646

Trebilco R, Dulvy NK, Anderson SC, Salomon AK. 2016.
The paradox of inverted biomass pyramids in kelp forest fish communities.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences. 283: 20160816.
Summary

Pardo SA, Kindsvater HH, Reynolds JD, Dulvy NK. 2016.
Maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in sharks, rays, and chimaeras: the importance of survival to maturity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 73 : 1-5
http://summit.sfu.ca/item/17609

Pardo SA, Kindsvater HK, Cuevas-Zimbrón E, Sosa-Nishizaki O, Pérez-Jiménez JC, Dulvy NK. 2016. Growth, productivity, and relative extinction risk of a data-sparse devil ray.
Scientific Reports 6: 33745.

Juan Jorda MJ, Mosqueira I, Freire J, Jorda EF, Dulvy NK. Accepted.
Global scombrid life history dataset
Ecology. doi:10.1890/15-1301

Kindsvater HH, Mangel M, Reynolds JD, Dulvy NK. Accepted.
Ten principles from evolutionary ecology essential for effective marine conservation.
Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1002/ece3.2012

Collen B, Dulvy NK, Gaston KJ, Gärdenfors U, Keith DA, Punt AE, Regan HM, Böhm M, Hedges S, Seddon MB, Butchart SHM, Hilton-Taylor C, Hoffmann M, Bachman SP, Akçakaya HR 2016.
Clarifying misconceptions of extinction risk assessment with the IUCN Red List.
Biology Letters 12:  20150843, doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0843

Dulvy NK, Davidson LNK, Kyne PM, Simpfendorfer CA, Harrison LR, Carlson JK, Fordham SV. 2016
Ghosts of the coast: global extinction risk and conservation of sawfishes. 
Aquatic Conservation - Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 26:1
34-153

Miloslavich P, Webb T, Snelgrove P, Vanden Berghe E, Kaschner K, Halpin PN, Reeves RR, Lascelles B, Tarzia M, Wallace BP, Dulvy, NK, Simpfendorfer, CA. et al. 2016. Extent of Assessment of Marine Biological Diversity. In The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assessment I. United Nations: Rome; pp 58.

Croll DA, Dewar H, Dulvy NK, Fernando D, Francis MP,  Galván-Magaña F, Hall M, Heinrichs S, Marshall A, McCauley D, Newton, KM, Notarbartolo-Di-Sciara, G., O'Malley, M. O'Sullivan, J, Poortvliet, M, Roman, M,  Stevens, G, Tershy, BR, White, W  2015. Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: the uncertain future of manta and devil rays.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 26: 562-575
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