Diving behavior of the reef manta ray links coral reefs with adjacent deep pelagic habitats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Braun, Camrin D ^a,c   Skomal, Gregory B ^b   Thorrold, Simon R ^c   Berumen, Michael L ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CARTILAGINOUS FISH; CORAL REEF; DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION; DIVING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; HABITAT USE; LIGHT; MANTA ALFREDI; MARINE BIOLOGY; MOON; NONHUMAN; PELAGIC SPECIES; SATELLITE TELEMETRY; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; TREND STUDY; VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DIVING; ELASMOBRANCH; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPERATURE;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORAL REEFS; DIVING; ELASMOBRANCHII; GEOGRAPHY; INDIAN OCEAN; MOON; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; SAUDI ARABIA; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84895543517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088170     Document Type: Article

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