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Sebastián A. Pardo

Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
Verified email at dal.ca
Cited by 988

Influenza and the winter increase in mortality in the United States, 1959–1999

…, L Simonsen, A Sharma, SA Pardo… - American journal of …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
In economically developed countries, mortality increases distinctly during winter. Many
causes have been suggested, including light-dark cycles, temperature/weather, and infectious …

Evaluating sustainability of fisheries bycatch mortality for marine megafauna: a review of conservation reference points for data-limited populations

…, SV Fordham, SS Heppell, SA Pardo… - Environmental …, 2013 - cambridge.org
Fisheries bycatch threatens populations of marine megafauna such as marine mammals,
turtles, seabirds, sharks and rays, but fisheries impacts on non-target populations are often …

Avoiding fishy growth curves

SA Pardo, AB Cooper, NK Dulvy - Methods in Ecology and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Somatic growth is a fundamental property of living organisms, and is of particular importance
for species with indeterminate growth that can change in size continuously throughout their …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosing the dangerous demography of manta rays using life history theory

NK Dulvy, SA Pardo, CA Simpfendorfer, JK Carlson - PeerJ, 2014 - peerj.com
Background. The directed harvest and global trade in the gill plates of mantas, and devil
rays, has led to increased fishing pressure and steep population declines in some locations. …

Maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in sharks, rays, and chimaeras: the importance of survival to maturity

SA Pardo, HK Kindsvater, JD Reynolds… - Canadian journal of …, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
The maximum intrinsic rate of population increase (r max ) is a commonly estimated demographic
parameter used in assessments of extinction risk. In teleosts, r max can be calculated …

[HTML][HTML] Tropical rays are intrinsically more sensitive to overfishing than the temperate skates

E Barrowclift, SM Gravel, SA Pardo, JS Bigman… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overfishing, habitat loss, and climate change are driving population declines in many species.
Understanding a species' capacity to recover from these and other threats is necessary for …

[HTML][HTML] Growth, productivity and relative extinction risk of a data-sparse devil ray

SA Pardo, HK Kindsvater, E Cuevas-Zimbrón… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Devil rays (Mobula spp.) face intensifying fishing pressure to meet the ongoing international
demand for gill plates. The paucity of information on growth, mortality and fishing effort for …

[HTML][HTML] Sharkipedia: a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series

CG Mull, N Pacoureau, SA Pardo, LS Ruiz… - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
A curated database of shark and ray biological data is increasingly necessary both to support
fisheries management and conservation efforts, and to test the generality of hypotheses of …

[HTML][HTML] Reliable growth estimation from mark–recapture tagging data in elasmobranchs

M Dureuil, WH Aeberhard, M Dowd, SA Pardo… - Fisheries …, 2022 - Elsevier
The somatic growth of individuals governs many aspects of a species’ life history and is an
important parameter in the assessment of populations. Population growth parameters are …

Spatio-temporal trends in the importance of iteroparity across Atlantic salmon populations of the northwest Atlantic

X Bordeleau, SA Pardo, G Chaput, J April… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Iteroparity is a bet-hedging strategy where individuals spread the risk of reproductive failure
over time. The occurrence of iteroparity (ie proportion of repeat spawners in annual returns) …