Long-term movements of tiger sharks satellite-tagged in Shark Bay, Western Australia

Marine Biology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1455-1461

  Heithaus, Michael R ^a,b   Wirsing, Aaron J ^a,c   Dill, Lawrence M ^c   Heithaus, Linda I ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR SHARK RESEARCH   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COASTAL WATER; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; RADIOTELEMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SHARK;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CHONDRICHTHYES; GALEOCERDO;

EID: 34247565006     PISSN: 00253162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00227-006-0583-y     Document Type: Article

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