The movement ecology of fishes

SJ Cooke, JN Bergman, WM Twardek… - Journal of Fish …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Movement of fishes in the aquatic realm is fundamental to their ecology and survival.
Movement can be driven by a variety of biological, physiological and environmental factors …

Advances in understanding the roles and benefits of nursery areas for elasmobranch populations

MR Heupel, S Kanno, APB Martins… - Marine and …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Nursery areas are critical to the survival of many marine species, and it is widely accepted
that elasmobranch species use nursery areas where they improve species fitness. A 2007 …

Decline of coastal apex shark populations over the past half century

G Roff, CJ Brown, MA Priest, PJ Mumby - Communications Biology, 2018 - nature.com
Overexploitation of large apex marine predators is widespread in the world's oceans, yet the
timing and extent of declines are poorly understood. Here we reconstruct a unique fisheries …

Buried in the sand: Uncovering the ecological roles and importance of rays

KI Flowers, MR Heithaus… - Fish and Fisheries, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rays (superorder Batoidea) are the most diverse group of elasmobranchs, and many are
threatened with extinction. However, there remain areas where research on the ecology of …

Seasonal migration, site fidelity, and population structure of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax)

H de Pontual, K Heerah, J Goossens… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale electronic tagging is a very powerful tool to study how fish movements and
migrations shape the internal dynamics of populations. This knowledge, crucial for …

Going batty: The challenges and opportunities of using drones to monitor the behaviour and habitat use of rays

S Oleksyn, L Tosetto, V Raoult, KE Joyce… - Drones, 2021 - mdpi.com
The way an animal behaves in its habitat provides insight into its ecological role. As such,
collecting robust, accurate datasets in a time-efficient manner is an ever-present pressure for …

Shark depredation in commercial and recreational fisheries

JD Mitchell, DL McLean, SP Collin… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2018 - Springer
Shark depredation, where a shark partially or completely consumes an animal caught by
fishing gear before it can be retrieved to the fishing vessel, occurs in commercial and …

[HTML][HTML] Increased abundance and nursery habitat use of the bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) in response to a changing environment in a warm-temperate estuary

CW Bangley, L Paramore, DS Shiffman, RA Rulifson - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
A general northward shift in marine species distributions has been observed in the western
North Atlantic Ocean, which may have significant ecological consequences. Large coastal …

Batoid nurseries: definition, use and importance

APB Martins, MR Heupel, A Chin… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2018 - int-res.com
Nursery areas are crucial for many elasmobranch species, providing benefits that increase
fitness and survival. Shark nurseries are well studied and our knowledge of their function …

Forecasting intraspecific changes in distribution of a wide-ranging marine predator under climate change

Y Niella, P Butcher, B Holmes, A Barnett, R Harcourt - Oecologia, 2022 - Springer
Globally, marine animal distributions are shifting in response to a changing climate. These
shifts are usually considered at the species level, but individuals are likely to differ in how …