The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy
Daniel Dunn
(1, 2)
,
Autumn-Lynn Harrison
(2)
,
Corrie Curtice
(1)
,
Sarah Deland
(1)
,
Ben Donnelly
(1)
,
Ei Fujioka
(1)
,
Eleanor Heywood
(1)
,
Connie Kot
(1)
,
Sarah Poulin
(1)
,
Meredith Whitten
(1)
,
Susanne Akesson
(3)
,
Amalia Alberini
(1)
,
Ward Appeltans
(4)
,
Jose Manuel Arcos
(5)
,
Helen Bailey
(6)
,
Lisa Ballance
(7)
,
Barbara Block
(8)
,
Hannah Blondin
(1)
,
Andre Boustany
(9)
,
Jorge Brenner
(10)
,
Paulo Catry
(11)
,
Daniel Cejudo
(12)
,
Jesse Cleary
(1)
,
Peter Corkeron
(13)
,
Daniel Costa
(14)
,
Michael Coyne
(15)
,
Guillermo Ortuño Crespo
(1)
,
Tammy Davies
(16)
,
Maria Dias
(16)
,
Fanny Douvere
(17)
,
Francesco Ferretti
(8)
,
Angela Formia
(18)
,
David Freestone
(19)
,
Ari Friedlaender
,
Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma
,
Christopher Barrio Froján
,
Kristina Gjerde
,
Lyle Glowka
,
Brendan Godley
,
Jacob González-Solís
(20)
,
José Pedro Granadeiro
(21)
,
Vikki Gunn
,
Yuriko Hashimoto
,
Lucy Hawkes
,
Graeme Hays
,
Carolina Hazin
,
Jorge Jimenez
,
David Johnson
(22)
,
Paolo Luschi
,
Sara Maxwell
,
Catherine Mcclellan
,
Michelle Modest
,
Giuseppe Notarbartolo Di Sciara
(23)
,
Alejandro Herrero Palacio
,
Daniel Palacios
,
Andrea Pauly
,
Matt Rayner
,
Alan Rees
,
Erick Ross Salazar
,
David Secor
,
Ana F. Sequeira
(24)
,
Mark Spalding
(25)
,
Fernando Spina
(26)
,
Sofie van Parijs
,
Bryan Wallace
,
Nuria Varo-Cruz
,
Melanie Virtue
,
Henri Weimerskirch
(27)
,
Laurie Wilson
,
Bill Woodward
(28)
,
Patrick Halpin
(29)
1
Nicholas School of the Environment
2 Migratory Bird Center [DC, USA]
3 Department of Biology, Center for Animal Movement Research [Sweden]
4 International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Oostende
5 SEO/BirdLife
6 CBL - Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
7 SWFSC - Southwest Fisheries Science Center
8 Hopkins Marine Station [Stanford]
9 Monterrey Bay Aquarium[USA]
10 The Nature Conservancy [Houston, USA]
11 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre [Portugal]
12 Biology Department of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [Spain]
13 Protected Species Branch, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center
14 Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [Santa Cruz, CA, USA]
15 UC Santa Cruz - University of California [Santa Cruz]
16 BirdLife International
17 UNESCO World Heritage Convention [France]
18 Wildlife Conservation Society
19 Sargasso Sea Commission [USA]
20 EBD - Estación Biológica de Doñana
21 CESAM - Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar
22 UCL - University College of London [London]
23 Tethys Research Institute [ITALIE]
24 INSA - Instituto Nacional de Saùde Dr Ricardo Jorge [Portugal]
25 Deptarment of Zoology, University of Cambridge
26 ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
27 CEBC - Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372
28 IOOS - NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System
29 Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory [USA]
2 Migratory Bird Center [DC, USA]
3 Department of Biology, Center for Animal Movement Research [Sweden]
4 International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Oostende
5 SEO/BirdLife
6 CBL - Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
7 SWFSC - Southwest Fisheries Science Center
8 Hopkins Marine Station [Stanford]
9 Monterrey Bay Aquarium[USA]
10 The Nature Conservancy [Houston, USA]
11 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre [Portugal]
12 Biology Department of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria [Spain]
13 Protected Species Branch, NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center
14 Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology [Santa Cruz, CA, USA]
15 UC Santa Cruz - University of California [Santa Cruz]
16 BirdLife International
17 UNESCO World Heritage Convention [France]
18 Wildlife Conservation Society
19 Sargasso Sea Commission [USA]
20 EBD - Estación Biológica de Doñana
21 CESAM - Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar
22 UCL - University College of London [London]
23 Tethys Research Institute [ITALIE]
24 INSA - Instituto Nacional de Saùde Dr Ricardo Jorge [Portugal]
25 Deptarment of Zoology, University of Cambridge
26 ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
27 CEBC - Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372
28 IOOS - NOAA Integrated Ocean Observing System
29 Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory [USA]
Susanne Akesson
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Daniel Costa
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Ari Friedlaender
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Heidrun Frisch-Nwakanma
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Christopher Barrio Froján
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Kristina Gjerde
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Lyle Glowka
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Brendan Godley
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Vikki Gunn
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Yuriko Hashimoto
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Lucy Hawkes
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Graeme Hays
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Carolina Hazin
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Jorge Jimenez
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Paolo Luschi
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Sara Maxwell
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Catherine Mcclellan
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Michelle Modest
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Alejandro Herrero Palacio
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Daniel Palacios
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Andrea Pauly
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Matt Rayner
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Alan Rees
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Erick Ross Salazar
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David Secor
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Fernando Spina
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Sofie van Parijs
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Bryan Wallace
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Nuria Varo-Cruz
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Melanie Virtue
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Laurie Wilson
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Résumé
The distributions of migratory species in the ocean span local, national and international jurisdictions. Across these ecologically interconnected regions, migratory marine species interact with anthropogenic stressors throughout their lives. Migratory connectivity, the geographical linking of individuals and populations throughout their migratory cycles, influences how spatial and temporal dynamics of stressors affect migratory animals and scale up to influence population abundance, distribution and species persistence. Population declines of many migratory marine species have led to calls for connectivity knowledge, especially insights from animal tracking studies, to be more systematically and synthetically incorporated into decision-making. Inclusion of migratory connectivity in the design of conservation and management measures is critical to ensure they are appropriate for the level of risk associated with various degrees of connectivity. Three mechanisms exist to incorporate migratory connectivity into international marine policy which guides conservation implementation: site-selection criteria, network design criteria and policy recommendations. Here, we review the concept of migratory connectivity and its use in international policy, and describe the Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean system, a migratory connectivity evidence-base for the ocean. We propose that without such collaboration focused on migratory connectivity, efforts to effectively conserve these critical species across jurisdictions will have limited effect.