Eating or Meeting? Cluster Analysis Reveals Intricacies of White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Migration and Offshore Behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Jorgensen, Salvador J ^a,b   Arnoldi, Natalie S ^b   Estess, Ethan E ^b   Chapple, Taylor K ^b   Rückert, Martin ^c   Anderson, Scot D ^d   Block, Barbara A ^b  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Point Reyes National Seashore   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HISTOGRAM; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; POP UP ARCHIVAL TRANSMITTING TAG; POPULATION MIGRATION; RAPID OSCILLATORY DIVING; SHARK; TELEMETRY;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIVING; EATING; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SHARKS; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS;

EID: 84868148986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047819     Document Type: Article

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