Dr Andy Richardson's Outputs (8)

The Former Pelagic Longline Fishery of a Large‐Scale Marine Protected Area (2025)
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Kerry, C., Metcalfe, K., Brown, J., Richardson, A., Laptikvoksky, V., Reeves, S., Weber, N., & Weber, S. (2025). The Former Pelagic Longline Fishery of a Large‐Scale Marine Protected Area. Aquatic conservation : marine and freshwater ecosystems, 35(2), Article e70076. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.70076

The establishment of large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs) has emerged as one of the defining trends in ocean conservation over recent decades. To assess the potential benefits of such designations, it is necessary to understand the nature of t... Read More about The Former Pelagic Longline Fishery of a Large‐Scale Marine Protected Area.

Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve (2025)
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Weber, S. B., Richardson, A. J., Thompson, C. D., Brown, J., Campanella, F., Godley, B. J., Hussey, N. E., Meeuwig, J. J., Rose, P., Weber, N., Witt, M. J., & Broderick, A. C. (2025). Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve. PLoS Biology, 23(2 February), Article e3003016. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003016

Seamounts have been likened to “oases” of life in the comparative : deserts of the open ocean, often harbouring high densities of threatened and exploited pelagic top predators. However, few such aggregations have been studied in any detail and the m... Read More about Shallow seamounts are “oases” and activity hubs for pelagic predators in a large-scale marine reserve.

Direct evidence of a prey depletion "halo" surrounding a pelagic predator colony (2021)
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Weber, S. B., Richardson, A. J., Brown, J., Bolton, M., Clark, B. L., Godley, B. J., Leat, E., Oppel, S., Shearer, L., Soetaert, K. E., Weber, N., & Broderick, A. C. (2021). Direct evidence of a prey depletion "halo" surrounding a pelagic predator colony. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(28), Article e2101325118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101325118

Colonially breeding birds and mammals form some of the largest gatherings of apex predators in the natural world and have provided model systems for studying mechanisms of population regulation in animals. According to one influential hypothesis, int... Read More about Direct evidence of a prey depletion "halo" surrounding a pelagic predator colony.

Water column structure defines vertical habitat of twelve pelagic predators in the South Atlantic (2020)
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Madigan, D. J., Richardson, A. J., Carlisle, A. B., Weber, S. B., Brown, J., & Hussey, N. E. (2021). Water column structure defines vertical habitat of twelve pelagic predators in the South Atlantic. ICES journal of marine science : journal du conseil, 78(3), 867-883. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa222

Quantifying vertical distributions of pelagic predators elucidates pelagic ecosystem structure and informs fisheries management. In the tropical South Atlantic Ocean, the recently designated large-scale marine protected area around Ascension Island h... Read More about Water column structure defines vertical habitat of twelve pelagic predators in the South Atlantic.

Extremes in Benthic Ecosystem Services; Blue Carbon Natural Capital Shallower Than 1000 m in Isolated, Small, and Young Ascension Island’s EEZ (2019)
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Barnes, D. K., Sands, C. J., Richardson, A., & Smith, N. (2019). Extremes in Benthic Ecosystem Services; Blue Carbon Natural Capital Shallower Than 1000 m in Isolated, Small, and Young Ascension Island’s EEZ. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, Article 663. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00663

Biodiversity tends to decrease with increasing isolation and reduced habitat size, and increase with habitat age. Ascension Island and its seamounts are small, isolated and relatively young, yet harbor patchily dense life. Large areas of these waters... Read More about Extremes in Benthic Ecosystem Services; Blue Carbon Natural Capital Shallower Than 1000 m in Isolated, Small, and Young Ascension Island’s EEZ.

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries (2019)
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Queiroz, N., Humphries, N. E., Couto, A., Vedor, M., da Costa, I., Sequeira, A. M., Mucientes, G., Santos, A. M., Abascal, F. J., Abercrombie, D. L., Abrantes, K., Acuña-Marrero, D., Afonso, A. S., Afonso, P., Anders, D., Araujo, G., Arauz, R., Bach, P., Barnett, A., Bernal, D., …Richardson, A. (2019). Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries. Nature, 572(7770), 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1444-4

Effective ocean management and the conservation of highly migratory species depend on resolving the overlap between animal movements and distributions, and fishing effort. However, this information is lacking at a global scale. Here we show, using a... Read More about Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries.

Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas (2018)
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Barnes, D. K., Morley, S. A., Bell, J., Brewin, P., Brigden, K., Collins, M., Glass, T., Goodall-Copestake, W. P., Henry, L., Laptikhovsky, V., Piechaud, N., Richardson, A., Rose, P., Sands, C. J., Schofield, A., Shreeve, R., Small, A., Stamford, T., & Taylor, B. (2018). Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas. Current biology : CB, 28(19), R1137-R1138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.08.064

There has been a recent shift in global perception of plastics in the environment, resulting in a call for greater action. Science and the popular media have highlighted plastic as an increasing stressor [1,2]. Efforts have been made to confer protec... Read More about Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas.

Residency and reproductive status of yellowfin tuna in a proposed large-scale pelagic marine protected area (2018)
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Richardson, A. J., Downes, K. J., Nolan, E. T., Brickle, P., Brown, J., Weber, N., & Weber, S. B. (2018). Residency and reproductive status of yellowfin tuna in a proposed large-scale pelagic marine protected area. Aquatic conservation : marine and freshwater ecosystems, 28(6), 1308-1316. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2936

Since the year 2000, the designation of remote, large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs) has closed over 15 × 106 km2 of ocean to commercial fishing. Yet, while these mega-reserves have collectively made a major contribution toward meeting global... Read More about Residency and reproductive status of yellowfin tuna in a proposed large-scale pelagic marine protected area.