Habitat use of the nurse shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, off Recife, Northeast Brazil: A combined survey with longline and acoustic telemetry

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 735-745

  Ferreira, Luciana C ^a,b   Afonso, André S ^a,c   Castilho, Pedro C ^a   Hazin, Fábio H V ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL RURAL DE PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Acoustic telemetry; CPUE; Recapture; Residency; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINE; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT USE; LONGLINING; SEASONALITY; SEX RATIO; SHARK; TAGGING; TELEMETRY; TROPICAL REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SUBTROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); BRAZIL; PERNAMBUCO; RECIFE;

CHONDRICHTHYES; GINGLYMOSTOMA CIRRATUM; GINGLYMOSTOMATIDAE;

EID: 84876438274     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-012-0067-5     Document Type: Article

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