The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy

Accepted/In Press date: 3 September 2019

Published date: 25 September 2019

Additional Information: Funding Information: Data accessibility. All products from the Migratory Connectivity in the Ocean (MiCO) system are freely available online at mico.eco/system. Authors’ contributions. D.C.D., A.-L.H. and C.C. conceived and led the writing on the manuscript. D.C.D. and C.C. conceived and led the MiCO system and the consortium of partners. S.D., E.H., C.Y.K., S.P., M.W., A.H.P., G.O.C., A.A., H.B. and P.N.H. analysed data, reviewed literature and contributed to writing the manuscript. E.F., B.D., C.C. and D.C.D. led development of the MiCO system with contributions from A.-L.H., S.D., E.H., C.Y.K., S.P., J.C. and A.-L.H., P.N.H. W.A., H.B., L.B., B.B., A.B., J.B., P.C., D.P.C., T.E.D., M.D.,. F.D., F.F., D.F., H.F.-N., C.B.F., K.M.G., L.G., B.J.G., V.G., G.C.H., C.H., J.J., D.E.J., S.M.M., G.N.d.S., D.M.P., A.P., M.R., A.F.R., E.R.S., D.S., A.M.M.S., M.S., F.S., S.V.P., B.W., M.V., H.W. and B.W. participated in advisory activities in the development of the MiCO system and contributed to the paper. S.Å., J.M.A., P.C., D.C., M.C., M.D., A.F., A.S.F., B.J.G., J.G.-S., J.P.G., Y.H., L.M.H., C.M., M.M., M.R., A.F.R., N.V.-C. and L.W. contributed data to the MiCO system and reviewed the manuscript. Competing interests. We declare we have no competing interests. Funding. This paper was supported through a grant to the Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative (GOBI) from the International Climate Initiative (IKI). The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) supports this initiative on the basis of a decision adopted by the German Bundestag. A.-L.-H. was supported by funding from the ConocoPhillips Charitable Investments Global Signature Program to the Migratory Connectivity Project. A.M.M.S. was supported by an ARC grant no. DE170100841. Funding for P.C. was also provided by FCT, Portugal through grant nos. PTDC/BIA-ANM/3743/2014 and MARE-UID/MAR/04292/2019. Acknowledgements. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to MiCO including A. Al Kiyumi, J. Bermejo, A. Broderick, P. Doherty, L. F. López-Jurado, A. Machado, N. Papathanasopoulou, S. Pikesley and M. Witt. We thank the editor for guidance and R. Waples and an anonymous reviewer for highly constructive reviews which resulted in a stronger paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords: Area-based management, Areas beyond national jurisdiction, Marine spatial planning, Migratory species

Local EPrints ID: 479873

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/479873

DOI: doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1472

ISSN: 0962-8452

PURE UUID: f9026789-6fbc-42fe-87f0-7d0c9fb2d405

ORCID for Christopher Barrio Froján: orcid.org/0000-0001-5562-5508

Date deposited: 28 Jul 2023 16:32

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