Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2003Vol. 100pp. -
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Abstract
Concentrations of biodiversity, or hotspots, represent conservation priorities in terrestrial ecosystems but remain largely unexplored in marine habitats. In the open ocean, many large predators such as tunas, sharks, billfishes, and sea turtles are of current conservation concern because of their v …