Prof Katherine Yates' Outputs (36)

Outstanding challenges in the transferability of ecological models (2018)
Journal Article

Predictive models are central to many scientific disciplines and vital for informing management in a rapidly changing world. However, limited understanding of the accuracy and precision of models transferred to novel conditions (their ‘transferabilit... Read More about Outstanding challenges in the transferability of ecological models.

Ocean zoning for conservation, fisheries and marine renewable energy : assessing trade-offs and co-location opportunities (2015)
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Yates, K., Schoeman, D., & Klein, C. (2015). Ocean zoning for conservation, fisheries and marine renewable energy : assessing trade-offs and co-location opportunities. Journal of Environmental Management, 152, 201-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2015.01.045

Oceans, particularly coastal areas, are getting busier and within this increasingly human-dominated seascape, marine biodiversity continues to decline. Attempts to maintain and restore marine biodiversity are becoming more spatial, principally throug... Read More about Ocean zoning for conservation, fisheries and marine renewable energy : assessing trade-offs and co-location opportunities.

Incorporating the spatial access priorities of fishers into strategic conservation planning and marine protected area design : reducing cost and increasing transparency (2014)
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Yates, K., & Schoeman, D. (2015). Incorporating the spatial access priorities of fishers into strategic conservation planning and marine protected area design : reducing cost and increasing transparency. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72(2), 587-594. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu122

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly used to address multiple marine management needs, and the incorporation of stakeholders into the MPA planning and designation processes is considered vital for success. Commercial fishers are often the s... Read More about Incorporating the spatial access priorities of fishers into strategic conservation planning and marine protected area design : reducing cost and increasing transparency.

Transferring biodiversity models for conservation : opportunities and challenges (2018)
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After decades of extensive surveying, knowledge of the global distribution of species still remains inadequate for many purposes. In the short to medium term, such knowledge is unlikely to improve greatly given the often prohibitive costs of surveyin... Read More about Transferring biodiversity models for conservation : opportunities and challenges.

The nature and extent of evidence on methodologies for monitoring and evaluating marine spatial management measures in the UK and similar coastal waters: a systematic map (2021)
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Background: Anthropogenic degradation of marine ecosystems is widely accepted as a major social-ecological problem. The growing urgency to manage marine ecosystems more effectively has led to increasing application of spatial management measures (mar... Read More about The nature and extent of evidence on methodologies for monitoring and evaluating marine spatial management measures in the UK and similar coastal waters: a systematic map.

'Addressing Barriers in the Student Pipeline to Improve Access to Research Careers: A Widening Participation Case Study at the University of Salford' (2024)
Journal Article

There is great inequality between the individuals who are successful in their pursuit of research and academic careers and those who are not. In this article, we explore a recent widening participation (WP) intervention at the University of Salford i... Read More about 'Addressing Barriers in the Student Pipeline to Improve Access to Research Careers: A Widening Participation Case Study at the University of Salford'.

An Act of Love: Three Experiences of Self- Decolonization in the Academic Community of the United Kingdom (2024)
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Poliah, K., Suwa Gbolagun, V., Ka Keung, J. Y., Helm, H., & Gilbert, D. J. (2024). An Act of Love: Three Experiences of Self- Decolonization in the Academic Community of the United Kingdom. #Journal not on list, 03, 88-103. https://doi.org/10.35074/FJ.2024.40.20.007

This narrative essay presents testimonies that uncover the fragmented identity of members of minoritized ethnic groups in the academic context of the United Kingdom. It discusses outcomes of a project which, as part of an Equality, Diversity, and Inc... Read More about An Act of Love: Three Experiences of Self- Decolonization in the Academic Community of the United Kingdom.

Benefits and barriers for researcher-practitioner collaboration on marine and coastal management issues (2024)
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The complex management problems facing marine and coastal systems require diverse, multidisciplinary perspectives to inform more holistic, sustainable management. Collaboration between researchers and practitioners is needed to maximise the utility o... Read More about Benefits and barriers for researcher-practitioner collaboration on marine and coastal management issues.

Poor online information on European marine protected areas impairs public participation under the Aarhus Convention (2024)
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The Aarhus Convention is a globally recognised benchmark for democratic environmental governance. However, no assessment exists on whether European MPAs comply with the legal standards set out by the Convention. Here, we focus on public authorities’... Read More about Poor online information on European marine protected areas impairs public participation under the Aarhus Convention.

Co-location of fisheries and offshore wind farms: current practices and enabling conditions in the North Sea (2023)
Journal Article

Current expansion in offshore wind farm (OWF) development is resulting in increased
spatial conflicts with other uses. In the North Sea, marine spatial planning (MSP)
processes include co-existence strategies, with co-location between fisheries and... Read More about Co-location of fisheries and offshore wind farms: current practices and enabling conditions in the North Sea.

Dune slope, not wind speed, best predicts bare sand in vegetated coastal dunes. (2023)
Journal Article
Smyth, T., Rooney, P., & Yates, K. (2023). Dune slope, not wind speed, best predicts bare sand in vegetated coastal dunes. Journal of Coastal Conservation, 27, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11852-023-00957-9

Globally vegetation cover on coastal sand dunes has increased since at least the 1950s. With the aim of restoring or increasing biodiversity, land managers in several countries have removed vegetation and/or reprofiled dune slopes to reinvigorate geo... Read More about Dune slope, not wind speed, best predicts bare sand in vegetated coastal dunes..

Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable (2022)
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Smyth, T. A., Wilson, R., Rooney, P., & Yates, K. L. (2022). Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable. Aeolian research, 56, 100799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2022.100799

Vegetation cover on coastal sand dunes has been increasing worldwide since at least the 1940s. Analysis of aerial and satellite imagery has been the principal source used to measure this change, however no studies have systematically evaluated the ac... Read More about Extent, accuracy and repeatability of bare sand and vegetation cover in dunes mapped from aerial imagery is highly variable.

The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 : opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery (2021)
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The European Union (EU) has committed to an ambitious biodiversity recovery plan in its Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Green Deal. These policies aim to halt biodiversity loss and move towards sustainable development, focusing on restoring de... Read More about The EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 : opportunities and challenges on the path towards biodiversity recovery.

Sidney Holt’s legacy lives on in fisheries science (2021)
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On 22 December 2019, the world of fisheries science and whale conservation lost one of its most ardent champions with the passing of Sidney J. Holt. His career began in 1947 at the age of 21. Ten years later, he and his colleague Ray Beverton publish... Read More about Sidney Holt’s legacy lives on in fisheries science.

Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science (2021)
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Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine management, biodiversity conservation, and restoration. While import... Read More about Seascape ecology : identifying research priorities for an emerging ocean sustainability science.

Evaluation of marine spatial planning requires fit for purpose monitoring strategies (2020)
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Marine spatial planning (MSP) has rapidly become the most widely used integrated, place-based management approach in the marine environment. Monitoring and evaluation of MSP is key to inform best practices, adaptive management and plan iteration. Whi... Read More about Evaluation of marine spatial planning requires fit for purpose monitoring strategies.

Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas (2020)
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Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success storie... Read More about Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas.

A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models (2020)
Journal Article

Species distribution models (SDMs) constitute the most common class of models
across ecology, evolution and conservation. The advent of ready-to-use software pack
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ages and increasing availability of digital geoinformation have considerably assis... Read More about A standard protocol for reporting species distribution models.

Marine social sciences : looking towards a sustainable future (2020)
Journal Article

Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity
relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically
been lacking. As efforts... Read More about Marine social sciences : looking towards a sustainable future.

Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future (2020)
Journal Article
McKinley, E., Acott, T., & Yates, K. (2020). Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future. Environmental Science and Policy, 108, 85-92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.03.015

Marine and coastal environments provide extensive and essential ecosystem services upon which much of humanity relies, yet the incorporation of human dimensions into marine and coastal policy and management has historically been lacking. As efforts t... Read More about Marine social sciences: Looking towards a sustainable future.