Assortative interactions and leadership in a free-ranging population of juvenile lemon shark Negaprion brevirostris

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 423, Issue , 2011, Pages 235-245

  Guttridge, Tristan L ^a   Gruber, Samuel H ^b,c   DiBattista, Joseph D ^d   Feldheim, Kevin A ^e   Croft, Darren P ^f   Krause, Stefan ^g   Krause, Jens ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Bimini Biological Field Station ^*  (Bahamas)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g LÜBECK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^h LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Group living; Lemon shark; Randomisations; Relatedness; Size assortment; Social behaviour; Social organisation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; JUVENILE; MANGROVE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDATOR; RANGE EXPANSION; RELATEDNESS; SHARK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

BAHAMAS; BIMINI;

CHONDRICHTHYES; CITRUS LIMON; NEGAPRION; NEGAPRION BREVIROSTRIS;

EID: 79951666448     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08929     Document Type: Article

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