Journal article
Ecological vulnerability of the chondrichthyan fauna of southern Australia to the stressors of climate change, fishing and other anthropogenic hazards
TI Walker, RW Day, CA Awruch, JD Bell, JM Braccini, DR Dapp, L Finotto, LH Frick, KC Garcés-García, L Guida, C Huveneers, CL Martins, BEA Rochowski, J Tovar-Ávila, FI Trinnie, RD Reina
Fish and Fisheries | Published : 2021
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12571
Abstract
We develop a potentially widely applicable framework for analysing the vulnerability, resilience risk and exposure of chondrichthyan species to all types of anthropogenic stressors in the marine environment. The approach combines the three components of widely applied vulnerability analysis (exposure, sensitivity and adaptability) (ESA) with three components (exposure, susceptibility and productivity) (ESP) of our adaptation of productivity–susceptibility analysis (PSA). We apply our 12-step ESA‒ESP analysis to evaluate the vulnerability (risk of a marked reduction of the population) of each of 132 chondrichthyan species in the Exclusive Economic Zone of southern Australia. The vulnerability..
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Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank Dr William White of CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure for kindly updating species names (31 March 2021) that had changed following taxonomic review. Agata Zabolotny of the Western Australian Fisheries and Marine Research Laboratories is thanked for preparing the map shown in Figure 1. We are most grateful to two reviewers and the editor for their insightful and constructive comments on the manuscript's early drafts. This paper draws on published information from the literature and data collected by the authors over many years. The collection of data, its synthesis and publication occurred as part of projects funded by the Australian Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC), the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA), the Australian Research Council (ARC), and postgraduate scholarships awarded to several of the authors by five Australian universities (Adelaide, Deakin, Macquarie, Melbourne and Monash). The key projects are FRDC 1999/103, FRDC 2001/007, FRDC 2002/033, AFMA R2006/812, AFMA R2006/823, ARC LP0774947 and ARC LP110200572.