A new prospect for tagging large free-swimming sharks with motion-sensitive data-loggers

Fisheries Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 11-16

  Gleiss, Adrian C ^a   Norman, Brad ^b   Liebsch, Nikolai ^a   Francis, Clive ^a   Wilson, Rory P ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Daily diary'; Accelerometry; Data logging; Shark; Tagging; Whale shark

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; RHINCODON TYPUS; RHINCODONTIDAE;

EID: 61849154175     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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