Biologging and biotelemetry: tools for understanding the lives and environments of marine animals

YY Watanabe, YP Papastamatiou - Annual Review of Animal …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science
often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by …

The functional and ecological significance of deep diving by large marine predators

CD Braun, MC Arostegui, SR Thorrold… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Many large marine predators make excursions from surface waters to the deep ocean below
200 m. Moreover, the ability to access meso-and bathypelagic habitats has evolved …

Endothermy makes fishes faster but does not expand their thermal niche

L Harding, A Jackson, A Barnett, I Donohue… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Regional endothermy has evolved several times in marine fishes, and two competing
hypotheses are generally proposed to explain the evolutionary drivers behind this trait …

Integral functions of marine vertebrates in the ocean carbon cycle and climate change mitigation

AH Martin, HC Pearson, GK Saba, EM Olsen - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
In the last decade, the ocean has absorbed a quarter of the Earth's greenhouse gas
emissions through the carbon (C) cycle, a naturally occurring process. Aspects of the ocean …

Behavioural thermoregulation linked to foraging in blue sharks

YY Watanabe, I Nakamura, WC Chiang - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Large pelagic fishes often dive and surface repeatedly as if they were airbreathers, raising a
question about the functions of these movements. Some species (eg, bigeye tuna, ocean …

Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of immature Australasian white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)

JLY Spaet, TA Patterson, RW Bradford, PA Butcher - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract In Australian and New Zealand waters, current knowledge on white shark
(Carcharodon carcharias) movement ecology is based on individual tracking studies using …

Assessing White Shark (Carcharodon carcharias) Behavior Along Coastal Beaches for Conservation-Focused Shark Mitigation

AP Colefax, BP Kelaher, DE Pagendam… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Many large coastal sharks are vulnerable to population declines, however, conflict with
human activities often results in unselective culls. Successfully and non-destructively …

Body dimensions of the extinct giant shark Otodus megalodon: a 2D reconstruction

JA Cooper, C Pimiento, HG Ferrón, MJ Benton - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Inferring the size of extinct animals is fraught with danger, especially when they were much
larger than their modern relatives. Such extrapolations are particularly risky when allometry …

A first look at the metabolic rate of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) in the Canadian Arctic

E Ste-Marie, YY Watanabe, JM Semmens… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Metabolic rate is intricately linked to the ecology of organisms and can provide a framework
to study the behaviour, life history, population dynamics, and trophic impact of a species …

Diet Composition and Nutritional Niche Breadth Variability in Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)

R Grainger, VM Peddemors… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Establishing diets and dietary generalism in marine top predators is critical for
understanding their ecological roles and responses to environmental fluctuations. Nutrition …