Interest in animal personalities has generated a burgeoning literature on repeatability in
individual traits such as boldness or exploration through time or across different contexts …

Movements and habitat preferences of sharks relative to a central location are widely
documented for many species; however, the reasons for such behaviors are currently …

This study presents the longest uninterrupted acoustic monitoring record available to date
for the leopard shark Triakis semifasciata, providing novel insight into the fine-scale and …

Elasmobranchs represent important components of marine ecosystems, but they can be
vulnerable to overexploitation. This has driven investigations into the population genetic …

Understanding of spatio-temporal patterns of sensitive fish species such as skates (Rajidae)
is essential for implementation of conservation measures. With insufficient survey data …

The small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula is a small demersal chondrichthyan
distributed on continental shelf and uppermost slope waters of the Mediterranean Sea and …

Understanding the patterns of large-scale movements of highly mobile marine predators is
essential to understanding the impacts of anthropogenic pressures on the animals and the …

Shark resource-use strategies affect how they will respond to changes within their
environment and, as such, may be important to consider in conservation and management …

Commercial gill-net and longline surveys were conducted in the Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
area to assess whether the proportion of male Spiny Dogfish Squalus acanthias in the catch …

The aim of this study was to characterize the spatial distribution of species richness and
reproductive modes of chondrichthyans in relation to temperature, and the overlap with …