Acoustic telemetry and fisheries management

GT Crossin, MR Heupel, CM Holbrook… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the use of acoustic telemetry as a tool for addressing issues in fisheries
management, and serves as the lead to the special Feature Issue of Ecological Applications …

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 …

Conservation challenges of sharks with continental scale migrations

MR Heupel, CA Simpfendorfer, M Espinoza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Understanding movement and connectivity of populations is increasingly important as
human and climate change pressures become more pervasive, but can be problematic in …

Evidence of partial migration in a large coastal predator: opportunistic foraging and reproduction as key drivers?

M Espinoza, MR Heupel, AJ Tobin, CA Simpfendorfer - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Understanding animal movement decisions that involve migration is critical for evaluating
population connectivity, and thus persistence. Recent work on sharks has shown that often …

Niche partitioning between river shark species is driven by seasonal fluctuations in environmental salinity

RG Dwyer, HA Campbell, RL Cramp… - Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical rivers and estuaries are highly dynamic environments, where environmental
conditions change dramatically over spatial and temporal scales. This creates both …

Current and emerging statistical techniques for aquatic telemetry data: A guide to analysing spatially discrete animal detections

K Whoriskey, EG Martins… - Methods in Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Telemetry, or the remote monitoring of animals with electronic transmitters and receivers,
has vastly enhanced our ability to study aquatic animals. Radio telemetry, acoustic telemetry …

Individual variation in ontogenetic niche shifts in habitat use and movement patterns of a large estuarine predator (Carcharhinus leucas)

P Matich, MR Heithaus - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Ontogenetic niche shifts are common among animals, yet most studies only investigate
niche shifts at the population level, which may overlook considerable differences among …

Reef shark science–key questions and future directions

MR Heupel, YP Papastamatiou, M Espinoza… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The occurrence of sharks on coral reefs has been well documented for decades, especially
since the advent of SCUBA diving. Despite this, it is only within the last decade that …

Ecological niche partitioning within a large predator guild in a nutrient‐limited estuary

P Matich, JS Ault, RE Boucek, DR Bryan… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Within oligotrophic ecosystems, resource limitations coupled with interspecific variation in
morphology, physiology, and life history traits may lead to niche partitioning among species …

Dual fuels: Intra‐annual variation in the relative importance of benthic and pelagic resources to maintenance, growth and reproduction in a generalist salmonid fish

B Hayden, C Harrod… - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological systems are often characterized as stable entities. However, basal productivity in
most ecosystems varies between seasons, particularly in subarctic and polar areas. How …