Scales of orientation, directed walks and movement path structure in sharks

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 864-874

  Papastamatiou, Yannis P ^a   Cartamil, Daniel P ^b   Lowe, Christopher G ^c   Meyer, Carl G ^d   Wetherbee, Brad M ^e   Holland, Kim N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacktip reef sharks; Cognitive maps; Correlated random walks; Fractal analysis; Learning; Patch use; Thresher sharks; Tiger sharks

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DISPERSAL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; JUVENILE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR; PATCH SIZE; PATCH USE; PERCEPTION; POPULATION MODELING; RANDOM WALK METHOD; RANGE SIZE; SENSORY SYSTEM; SHARK; SITE FIDELITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRACKING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); ORIENTATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRACTALS; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; SHARKS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALOPIINAE (ELASMOBRANCH); ANIMALIA; CARCHARHINUS MELANOPTERUS; CHONDRICHTHYES; GALEOCERDO;

EID: 79958032141     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01815.x     Document Type: Article

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