Recent climatic change has been recorded across the globe. Although environmental
change is a characteristic feature of life on Earth and has played a major role in the …

Marine biodiversity worldwide is under increasing threat, primarily as a result of over-
harvesting, pollution and climate change. Chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays and …

Over recent years there has been an accumulation of evidence from a variety of
experimental, theoretical, and field studies that many organisms use a movement strategy …

A whale shark Rhincodon typus satellite tagged off the coast of Mozambique showed a
highly directional movement across the Mozambique Channel and around the southern tip …

Balaenid whales perform long breath-hold foraging dives despite a high drag from their ram
filtration of zooplankton. To maximize the volume of prey acquired in a dive with limited …

Summary 1 Movement patterns of predators should allow them to detect and respond to prey
patches at different spatial scales, particularly through the adoption of area‐restricted search …

Understanding the habitat preferences of large marine vertebrates has only recently become
tractable with the widespread availability of satellite telemetry for monitoring movements and …

Satellite tracking of large pelagic fish provides insights on free-ranging behaviour,
distributions and population structuring. Up to now, such fish have been tracked remotely …

Understanding animal distributions and habitat utilisation is vital for the management of
populations, especially those of endangered species. However, this information is not …

An analysis of 79 underwater photographs of Manta birostris gathered over a period of nine
years in a marine protected area in southeastern Brazil suggests a high predictability of …