Seasonal and long-term changes in relative abundance of bull sharks from a tourist shark feeding site in Fiji

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Brunnschweiler, Juerg M ^a   Baensch, Harald ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; CORAL REEF; FEEDING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOURISM; WATER SAMPLING; ANIMAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIJI; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECREATION; SEASON;

ANIMALIA; CARCHARHINUS LEUCAS; CHONDRICHTHYES;

ANIMALS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIJI; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECREATION; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SHARKS;

EID: 79551559489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016597     Document Type: Article

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