Seasonal movements, aggregations and diving behavior of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) revealed with archival tags

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Walli, Andreas ^a   Teo, Steven L H ^a   Boustany, Andre ^a   Farwell, Charles J ^b   Williams, Tom ^a   Dewar, Heidi ^a   Prince, Eric ^c   Block, Barbara A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; KERNEL METHOD; LATITUDE; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; STRATIFICATION; THERMOCLINE; TUNA; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

THUNNUS THYNNUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIVING; SEASONS; TUNA;

EID: 67650237657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006151     Document Type: Article

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