Long-term GPS tracking of ocean sunfish Mola mola offers a new direction in fish monitoring

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Sims, David W ^a,b   Queiroz, Nuno ^a,c   Humphries, Nicolas E ^a   Lima, Fernando P ^c,d   Hays, Graeme C ^e  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGAÇÃO EM BIODIVERSIDADE E RECURSOS GENÉTICOS   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^e SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FISH; GEOGRAPHY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOLA MOLA; NONHUMAN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PERCIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PORTUGAL; PREDATION;

MOLA MOLA; MOLIDAE; OSTEICHTHYES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; MARINE BIOLOGY; PERCIFORMES; PORTUGAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 70350528617     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007351     Document Type: Article

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