Vast global declines of freshwater and marine fish diversity and population abundance pose
serious threats to both ecosystem sustainability and human livelihoods. Environmental DNA …

The analysis of food webs and their dynamics facilitates understanding of the mechanistic
processes behind community ecology and ecosystem functions. Having accurate techniques …

Although the whale shark Rhincodon typus is the largest extant fish, it was not described
until 1828 and by 1986 there were only 320 records of this species. Since then, growth in …

The feeding anatomy, behavior and diet of the whale shark Rhincodon typus were studied
off Cabo Catoche, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. The filtering apparatus is composed of 20 …

The whale shark is an ideal flagship species for citizen science projects because of its
charismatic nature, its size, and the associated ecotourism ventures focusing on the species …

Whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, are known to aggregate to feed in a small number of
locations in tropical and subtropical waters. Here we document a newly discovered major …

The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is a charismatic umbrella species whose highly mobile
nature is not yet fully understood. Whale sharks roam the Philippine archipelago with two …

Sharks segregate by sex and size, but few studies have attempted to explain such
behaviors. To address this, we examined aggregations and the foraging ecology of whale …

Aim Predicting distribution patterns of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus, Smith 1828) in the
open ocean remains elusive owing to few pelagic records. We developed multivariate …

Whale sharks Rhincodon typus are large filter-feeders that are frequently observed feeding
in surface zooplankton patches at their tropical and subtropical coastal aggregation sites …