Costs of group-living for a normally solitary forager: Effects of provisioning tourism on southern stingrays Dasyatis americana

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 357, Issue , 2008, Pages 271-282

  Semeniuk, Christina A D ^a   Rothley, Kristina D ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Grouping costs; Injury; Parasites; Predation risk; Stingray; Tourism

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECTOPARASITE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FISH; FITNESS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INJURY; PREDATION RISK; TOURISM MANAGEMENT; TOURIST BEHAVIOR;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAYMAN ISLANDS; GRAND CAYMAN; GREATER ANTILLES;

ANIMALIA; DASYATIDAE; DASYATIS AMERICANA;

EID: 43249092607     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps07299     Document Type: Article

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