Residency, Habitat Use and Sexual Segregation of White Sharks, Carcharodon carcharias in False Bay, South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kock, Alison ^a,b   O'Riain, M Justin ^a   Mauff, Katya ^a   Meÿer, Michael ^c   Kotze, Deon ^c   Griffiths, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Shark Spotters   (South Africa)

^c Oceans and Coasts Branch ^*  (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TELEMETRY; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BAY; BODY SIZE; CARCHARODON CARCHARIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASMOBRANCH; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT USE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION RESIDENCY; SEAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL SEGREGATION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SHARK; SOUTH AFRICA; SPRING; SUMMER; TELEMETRY; TELEOST; WINTER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BAYS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY SIZE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SHARKS; SOUTH AFRICA; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84873817854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055048     Document Type: Article

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