Crossing latitudes-long-distance tracking of an apex predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Ferreira, Luciana C ^a,b   Thums, Michele ^b   Meeuwig, Jessica J ^a   Vianna, Gabriel M S ^a,b   Stevens, John ^c   McAuley, Rory ^d   Meekan, Mark G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BROWNIAN BRIDGE KERNEL METHOD; COASTAL WATERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GALEOCERDO CUVIER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDE; MALE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; SHARK; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION MIGRATION; TEMPERATURE;

CHONDRICHTHYES; GALEOCERDO; GALEOCERDO CUVIER;

WATER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HOMING BEHAVIOR; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SHARKS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 84923250343     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116916     Document Type: Article

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