Thesis
Interdisciplinary approaches to shark and ray conservation
- Abstract:
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Human actions are causing pervasive declines in biodiversity and ecosystem services. Sharks, rays and their cartilaginous relatives (Class Chondrichthyes, herein ‘sharks’) are amongst the most threatened taxa on earth, primarily due to overfishing. Oceanic shark populations have declined by more 70% in the past 50 years, and over one third of shark species and threatened with extinction. Technologies and practices that reduce impacts of fisheries on sharks are relatively well documented, yet ...
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+ Milner-Gulland, EJ
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
+ Pew Charitable Trusts
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Programme:
Pew Marine Fellows grant to EJ Milner-Gulland
Funder identifier:
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000875
+ University of Oxford
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Programme:
Oxford-NaturalMotion Graduate Scholarship
Grant:
SFF1819_OGSMF-NMZ_1175470
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2022-05-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Booth, H
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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