Extreme diving behaviour in devil rays links surface waters and the deep ocean

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Thorrold, Simon R ^a   Afonso, Pedro ^b,c   Fontes, Jorge ^b,c   Braun, Camrin D ^a,d   Santos, Ricardo S ^b,c   Skomal, Gregory B ^a,e   Berumen, Michael L ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

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

^e Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SURFACE WATER;

BIOMASS; DEEP SEA; DIVING BEHAVIOR; EUPHOTIC ZONE; FISH; FOOD WEB; MOVEMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FISH; FORAGING; MOBULA TARAPACANA; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SEA; VELOCITY; WATER TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL; COLD; DIVING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SKATES (FISH); STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THERMOREGULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; DIVING; ECOSYSTEM; SKATES (FISH);

EID: 84903756105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5274     Document Type: Article

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