Migration pathways, behavioural thermoregulation and overwintering grounds of blue sharks in the Northwest Atlantic

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Campana, Steven E ^a   Dorey, Anna ^a   Fowler, Mark ^a   Joyce, Warren ^a   Wang, Zeliang ^a   Wright, Dan ^a   Yashayaev, Igor ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTUMN; COASTAL WATERS; FEEDING; FISH; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREDATOR; SHARK; SQUID; SWIMMING; THERMOREGULATION; ANIMAL; CANADA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SEASON; TELECOMMUNICATION; TIME;

CEPHALOPODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; PHYSETERIDAE; PRIONACE GLAUCA; XIPHIAS GLADIUS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CANADA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SEASONS; SHARKS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952022540     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016854     Document Type: Article

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