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Anderson SC, Farmer RG, Ferretti F, Houde AL, Hutchings JA . 2011. Correlates of Vertebrate Extinction Risk in Canada. BioScience 61(7): 538-549, doi: 10.1525/bio.2011.61.7.8 .   pdf   
Ward-Paige C, Pattengill-Semmens C, Myers RA, Lotze HK. 2011. Spatial and temporal trends in yellow stingray abundance: evidence from diver surveys. Environmental Biology of Fishes 90:263–276. DOI 10.1007/s10641-010-9739-1 .   pdf   
Baum, JK, Blanchard W. 2010. Inferring shark population trends from generalized linear mixed models of pelagic longline catch and effort data. Fisheries Research 102: 229-239.   pdf   
Ferretti F, Worm B, Britten GL, Heithaus MR, Lotze HK. 2010. Patterns and ecosystem consequences of shark declines in the ocean. Ecology Letters 13: 1055-1071.   pdf     Supplemental Info
Serena F, Mancusi C, Barone M (eds) . 2010. Guida pratica di identificazione delle razze del Mar Mediterraneo. Linee guida per la raccolta e l’analisi dei dati. Field identification guide to the skates (Rajidae) of the Mediterranean Sea. Guidelines for data collection and analysis. Biol. Mar. Mediterr. 17 (Suppl. 2): 204 pp..   
Ward-Paige C, Mills Flemming J, Lotze HK . 2010. Overestimating fish counts by non-instantaneous visual censuses: Consequences for population and community descriptions. PLoS ONE 5(7): e11722. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011722.   pdf   
Ward-Paige C, Mora C, Lotze HK, Pattengill-Semmens C, McClenachan L, Arias-Castro E, Myers RA . 2010. Large-scale absence of sharks on reefs in the greater-Caribbean: a footprint of human pressures. PLoS ONE 5(8): e11968. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011968.   pdf     Press Material
Baum J, Worm B. 2009. Cascading top-down effects of changing oceanic predator abundances. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 699-714, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01531.x.   pdf   
McPherson, JA, Myers, RA. 2009. How to infer population trends in sparse data: examples with opportunistic sighting records for great white sharks. Diversity and Distributions 15: 880-890.   pdf   
Worm B, Hilborn R, Baum JK, Branch TA, Collie JS, Costello C, Fogarty MJ, Fulton EA, Hutchings JA, Jennings S, Jensen OP, Lotze HK, Mace PA, McClanahan TR, Minto C, Palumbi SR, Parma AM, Ricard D, Rosenberg AA, Watson R, Zeller D. 2009. Rebuilding global fisheries. Science 325: 578-585, doi: 10.1126/science.1173146.   pdf   
Dulvy, NK, Baum JK, Clarke S, Compagno LJV, Cortés E, Domingo A, Fordham S, Fowler S, Francis MP, Gibson C, Martínez J, Musick JA, Soldo A, Stevens JD, Valenti S . 2008. You can swim but you can’t hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 18(5): 459-482.   pdf   
Ferretti F, Myers RA, Serena F, Lotze HK. 2008. Loss of large predatory sharks from the Mediterranean Sea. Conservation Biology 22(4): 952-964.   pdf     Press Release
Simpfendorfer C, Cortés E, Heupel M, Brooks E, Babcock E, Baum JK, McAuley R, Dudley S, Stevens JD, Fordham S, Soldo A . 2008. An integrated approach to determining the risk of overexploitation for data-poor pelagic Atlantic sharks: an expert working group report. Lenfest Ocean Program .   
Garcia, VB, Lucifora LO, Myers RA. 2007. The importance of habitat and life history to extinction risk in sharks, skates, rays and chimaeras. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275(1630): 83-89 .   pdf     Supplementary Material  The Royal Society
Myers RA, Baum JK, Shepherd TD, Powers SP, Peterson CH . 2007. Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean. Science 315: 1846-1850.   pdf     Supporting Online Material  Press Material on www.globalshark.ca
O'Connell, MT, Shepherd TD, O'Connell AMU, Myers RA. 2007. Long-term declines in two apex predators, bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) and alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), in Lake Pontchartrain, an oligohaline estuary in southeastern Louisiana. Estuaries and Coasts 30: 567-574.   pdf   
Ward P, Myers RA . 2007. Bait loss and its potential effects on fishing power in pelagic longline fisheries. Fisheries Research 86: 69-76.   pdf   
Ferretti F, Myers RA. 2006. By-Catch of sharks in the Mediterranean Sea: available mitigation tools. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Mediterranean Cartilaginous Fish with emphasis on Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, Istanbul, Turkey. 158-169..   
Ward P, Myers RA. 2006. Do habitat models accurately predict the depth distribution of pelagic fishes? Fisheries Oceanography 15(1): 60-66.   pdf   
Baum JK, Kehler D, Myers RA. 2005. Robust estimates of decline for pelagic shark populations in the northwest Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Fisheries 30(10): 27-30.   pdf   
Ferretti F, Myers RA, Sartor P, Serena F. 2005. Long Term Dynamics of the Chondrichthyan Fish Community in the Upper Tyrrhenian Sea. ICES CM 2005/N:25.   pdf   
Harrington JM, Myers RA, and Rosenberg AA. 2005. Wasted Resources: Bycatch and discards in U.S. Fisheries (Full Report). Prepared by MRAG Americas, Inc. for Oceana, 286 pp.   pdf     Resources on Oceana's Website
Myers RA, Ottensmeyer CA. 2005. Extinction risk in marine species. In: Norse EA, Crowder LB (ed) In Marine Conservation Biology: the Science of Maintaining the Sea's Biodiversity Island Press, Washington, DC, pp 58-79.   pdf
Myers RA, Worm B. 2005. Extinction, survival, or recovery of large predatory fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 360: 13-20.   pdf     The Royal Society  Press Release
Shepherd TD, Myers RA. 2005. Direct and indirect fishery effects on small coastal elasmobranchs in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Ecology Letters 8: 1095-1104. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00807.x.   pdf     Supplementary Information  Cover of Ecology Letters
Stokesbury MJW, Harvey-Clark C, Gallant J, Block BA, Myers RA. 2005. Movement and environmental preferences of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) electronically tagged in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada. Marine Biology 148: 159-165.     Link to Paper   Link to video of Greenland sharks
Ward P, Myers RA. 2005. Shifts in open ocean fish communities coinciding with the commencement of commercial fishing. Ecology 86: 835-847.   pdf     Press Release from The Pew Foundation
Ward P, Myers RA . 2005. Inferring the depth distribution of catchability for pelagic fishes and correcting for variations in the depth of pelagic longline fishing gear. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 62: 1130-1142.   pdf   
Worm B, Sandow M, Oschlies A, Lotze HK, Myers RA. 2005. Global patterns of predator diversity in the open oceans. Science 309: 1365-1369.   pdf     Supplemental Information  Press Material on FMAP Website
Baum JK. 2004. COSEWIC assessment and status report on the porbeagle shark Lamna nasus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada .   pdf     Link to Canada's Species at Risk Act (SARA) Public Registry  SARA Legal Listing Consultation Workbook
Baum JK, Myers RA. 2004. Shifting baselines and the decline of pelagic sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. Ecology Letters 7(2): 135-145.   pdf   
Ward PJ, Myers RA, Blanchard W . 2004. Fish lost at sea: the effect of soak time and timing on pelagic longline catches. Fishery Bulletin 102: 179-195.   pdf     Supporting documents
Baum JK, Myers RA, Kehler DG, Worm B, Harley SJ, Doherty PA. 2003. Collapse and conservation of shark populations in the Northwest Atlantic. Science. 299: 389-392.   pdf     Paper on Science website
Myers RA, Worm B. 2003. Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature 423: 280-283.   pdf     Supplementary Information  Press material