[HTML][HTML] Swimming strategy and body plan of the world's largest fish: implications for foraging efficiency and thermoregulation

MG Meekan, LA Fuiman, R Davis, Y Berger… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
The largest animals in the oceans eat prey that are orders of magnitude smaller than
themselves, implying strong selection for cost-effective foraging to meet their energy …

Basking sharks and oceanographic fronts: quantifying associations in the north‐east Atlantic

PI Miller, KL Scales, SN Ingram, EJ Southall… - Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the mechanisms that link oceanographic processes and marine vertebrate
space use is critical to our knowledge of marine ecosystem functioning, and for effective …

Satellite tracking of the World's largest bony fish, the ocean sunfish (Mola mola L.) in the North East Atlantic

DW Sims, N Queiroz, TK Doyle, JDR Houghton… - Journal of Experimental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Satellite-linked archival transmitters were used to record the movements of three ocean
sunfish (Mola mola) in the North East Atlantic. Patterns of depth use and temperature …

Spatial ecology of loggerhead turtles: Insights from stable isotope markers and satellite telemetry

JC Haywood, WJ Fuller, BJ Godley… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Using a combination of satellite telemetry and stable isotope analysis (SIA), our aim was
to identify foraging grounds of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) at important rookeries in …

Feeding ecology of wild migratory tunas revealed by archival tag records of visceral warming

S Bestley, TA Patterson, MA Hindell… - Journal of Animal …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Summary 1 Seasonal long‐distance migrations are often expected to be related to resource
distribution, and foraging theory predicts that animals should spend more time in areas with …

A biologist's guide to assessing ocean currents: a review

S Fossette, NF Putman, KJ Lohmann, R Marsh… - Marine Ecology …, 2012 - int-res.com
We review how ocean currents are measured (in both Eulerian and Lagrangian
frameworks), how they are inferred from satellite observations, and how they are simulated …

Important areas at sea for adult loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea: satellite tracking corroborates findings from potentially biased sources

JA Zbinden, A Aebischer, D Margaritoulis, R Arlettaz - Marine Biology, 2008 - Springer
Sea turtle populations worldwide suffer from reduced survival of immatures and adults due
to fishery bycatch. Unfortunately, information about the whereabouts of turtles outside the …

[HTML][HTML] DNA barcoding identifies a cosmopolitan diet in the ocean sunfish

LL Sousa, R Xavier, V Costa, NE Humphries… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the world's heaviest bony fish reaching a body mass of up
to 2.3 tonnes. However, the prey M. mola consumes to fuel this prodigious growth remains …

Population characteristics and seasonal migrations of leatherback sea turtles at high latitudes

MC James, SA Sherrill-Mix, RA Myers - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2007 - int-res.com
Efforts to model populations of the leatherback sea turtle Dermochelys coriacea and design
appropriate conservation measures for this endangered species have been hindered by a …

First results from satellite-linked archival tagging of porbeagle shark, Lamna nasus: area fidelity, wider-scale movements and plasticity in diel depth changes

NG Pade, N Queiroz, NE Humphries, MJ Witt… - Journal of Experimental …, 2009 - Elsevier
Understanding the habitat preferences of large marine vertebrates has only recently become
tractable with the widespread availability of satellite telemetry for monitoring movements and …