Eyes in the sky: Linking satellite oceanography and biotelemetry to explore habitat selection by basking sharks

Animal Biotelemetry

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Curtis, Tobey H ^a,e   Zeeman, Stephan I ^b   Summers, Erin L ^c   Cadrin, Steven X ^a   Skomal, Gregory B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^c MAINE DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

^e NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape cod bay; Cetorhinus maximus; Great south channel; Remote sensing; Spatial ecology; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018192865     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20503385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2050-3385-2-12     Document Type: Article

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