[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 …

Fiji's largest marine reserve benefits reef sharks

JS Goetze, LAF Fullwood - Coral Reefs, 2013 - Springer
To provide more information about whether sharks benefit from no-take marine reserves, we
quantified the relative abundance and biomass of reef sharks inside and outside of Namena …

Effects of fishing on tropical reef associated shark populations on the Great Barrier Reef

MR Heupel, AJ Williams, DJ Welch, A Ballagh… - Fisheries …, 2009 - Elsevier
Three data sets were examined to define the level of interaction of reef associated sharks
with the commercial Coral Reef Fin Fish Fishery within the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). Data …

[HTML][HTML] Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-habitat associations: implications of marine park zoning

M Espinoza, M Cappo, MR Heupel, AJ Tobin… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-specific habitat associations in response
to geographic and environmental drivers is critical to assessing risk of exposure to fishing …

[HTML][HTML] Large–scale movement and reef fidelity of grey reef sharks

MR Heupel, CA Simpfendorfer, R Fitzpatrick - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Despite an Indo-Pacific wide distribution, the movement patterns of grey reef sharks
(Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos) and fidelity to individual reef platforms has gone largely …

Diversity, abundance, and distribution of reef sharks on outer-shelf reefs of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

JR Rizzari, AJ Frisch, KA Magnenat - Marine Biology, 2014 - Springer
Quantifying the distribution and habitat use of sharks is critical for understanding their
ecological role and for establishing appropriate conservation and management regimes. On …

Evidence for rapid recovery of shark populations within a coral reef marine protected area

CW Speed, M Cappo, MG Meekan - Biological Conservation, 2018 - Elsevier
There is limited evidence on the rate at which the shark populations of coral reefs can
rebound from over-exploitation, the baselines that might signify when recovery has occurred …

Species diversity, abundance, biomass, size and trophic structure of fish on coral reefs in relation to shark abundance

SC Barley, MG Meekan, JJ Meeuwig - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2017 - int-res.com
Theory predicts that loss of gape-limited sharks should lead to increases in the abundance
and biomass of smaller size classes of prey. We used stereo-baited remote underwater …

[HTML][HTML] Residency and spatial use by reef sharks of an isolated seamount and its implications for conservation

A Barnett, KG Abrantes, J Seymour, R Fitzpatrick - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Although marine protected areas (MPAs) are a common conservation strategy, these areas
are often designed with little prior knowledge of the spatial behaviour of the species they are …

[HTML][HTML] Isolation and no-entry marine reserves mitigate anthropogenic impacts on grey reef shark behavior

JB Juhel, L Vigliola, L Wantiez, TB Letessier… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Reef sharks are vulnerable predators experiencing severe population declines mainly due
to overexploitation. However, beyond direct exploitation, human activities can produce …