Fine-Scale Movements of the Broadnose Sevengill Shark and Its Main Prey, the Gummy Shark

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Barnett, Adam ^a,b   Abrantes, Kátya G ^a,c   Stevens, John D ^b   Bruce, Barry D ^b   Semmens, Jayson M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BENTHOS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MUSTELUS ANTARCTICUS; NONHUMAN; NOTORYNCHUS CEPEDIANUS; OSCILLATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SHARK; SPECIES COMPARISON; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; CANADA; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RISK;

MUSTELUS ANTARCTICUS; NOTORYNCHUS CEPEDIANUS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CANADA; GEOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT; OSCILLOMETRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK; SHARKS; SWIMMING; TASMANIA; TELEMETRY;

EID: 78649921056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015464     Document Type: Article

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