Area-restricted searching by manta rays and their response to spatial scale in lagoon habitats

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 456, Issue , 2012, Pages 233-244

  Papastamatiou, Yannis P ^a   DeSalles, Paul A ^b   McCauley, Douglas J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated random walks; First passage time; Fractal analysis; Mantas; Movement; Palmyra

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COASTAL LAGOON; FISH; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; HOME RANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT; PLANKTIVORE; PLANKTON; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

LINE ISLANDS; PALMYRA ATOLL;

ANIMALIA; MANTA ALFREDI; MOBULINAE; PALMYRA; PISCES;

EID: 84862230205     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps09721     Document Type: Article

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