Aquatic animal telemetry: a panoramic window into the underwater world

NE Hussey, ST Kessel, K Aarestrup, SJ Cooke… - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Global aquatic environments are changing profoundly as a result of human
actions; consequently, so too are the ways in which organisms are distributing themselves …

A review of detection range testing in aquatic passive acoustic telemetry studies

ST Kessel, SJ Cooke, MR Heupel, NE Hussey… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2014 - Springer
Passive acoustic telemetry provides an important tool to study the spatial ecology and
behaviour of organisms in marine and freshwater systems, but understanding the detection …

Emergent research and priorities for shark and ray conservation

SJ Jorgensen, F Micheli, TD White… - Endangered Species …, 2022 - int-res.com
Over the past 4 decades there has been a growing concern for the conservation status of
elasmobranchs (sharks and rays). In 2002, the first elasmobranch species were added to …

Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators

MR Heupel, DM Knip, CA Simpfendorfer… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2014 - int-res.com
The decline of predators in a variety of ecosystems has transformed community structure
through mesopredator release and trophic cascades. Elasmobranch fishes, one of the …

Global shark currency: the distribution, frequency, and economic value of shark ecotourism

AJ Gallagher, N Hammerschlag - Current Issues in Tourism, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Ecotourism represents a highly popularised activity which has exhibited global growth in
recent years. In the present paper, we examine the distribution, frequency, and economic …

Studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios: an updated synthesis

ON Shipley, P Matich - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The development of the isotopic niche, an n-dimensional hypervolume (with n being the
number of isotopes) occupied by a population in delta space, has revolutionized the study of …

Global economic value of shark ecotourism: implications for conservation

AM Cisneros-Montemayor, M Barnes-Mauthe… - Oryx, 2013 - cambridge.org
Amid declining shark populations because of overfishing, a burgeoning shark watching
industry, already well established in some locations, generates benefits from shark …

Socio-economic value and community benefits from shark-diving tourism in Palau: a sustainable use of reef shark populations

GMS Vianna, MG Meekan, DJ Pannell, SP Marsh… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Arguments for conservation of sharks based on their role in the maintenance of healthy
marine ecosystems have failed to halt the worldwide decline in populations. Instead, the …

Stable isotopes and elasmobranchs: tissue types, methods, applications and assumptions

NE Hussey, MA MacNeil, JA Olin… - Journal of Fish …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Stable‐isotope analysis (SIA) can act as a powerful ecological tracer with which to examine
diet, trophic position and movement, as well as more complex questions pertaining to …

[HTML][HTML] Reef sharks exhibit site-fidelity and higher relative abundance in marine reserves on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef

ME Bond, EA Babcock, EK Pikitch, DL Abercrombie… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Carcharhinid sharks can make up a large fraction of the top predators inhabiting tropical
marine ecosystems and have declined in many regions due to intense fishing pressure …