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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   
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
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   
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