[HTML][HTML] Estimating the energetic cost of whale shark tourism

C Barry, C Legaspi, TM Clarke, G Araujo… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Wildlife tourism is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the tourism industry, where feeding
animals is often applied to increase the probability of up-close encounters. However, directly …

Continental‐scale acoustic telemetry and network analysis reveal new insights into stock structure

EJI Lédée, MR Heupel, MD Taylor… - Fish and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Delineation of population structure (ie stocks) is crucial to successfully manage exploited
species and to address conservation concerns for threatened species. Fish migration and …

Non-invasive methods characterise the world's largest tiger shark aggregation in Fuvahmulah, Maldives

L Vossgaetter, T Dudeck, J Crouch, M Cope… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Tiger sharks are apex predators with a circumglobal tropical and warm-temperate
distribution, with a general lack of population data for the central Indian Ocean. In …

Non-random Co-occurrence of Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Seasonal Aggregation Sites in Southern California

JM Anderson, AJ Clevenstine, BS Stirling… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Many terrestrial and aquatic taxa are known to form periodic aggregations, whether across
life history or solely during specific life stages, that are generally governed by the availability …

Evaluating techniques for determining elasmobranch body size: a review of current methodologies

AS Ferreira, MA Naré, JI Robalo, ND Baylina - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
There is global awareness that many species of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) have life
history characteristics that make them susceptible to overexploitation. The study of these …

[HTML][HTML] Interannual nearshore habitat use of young of the year white sharks off Southern California

JM Anderson, ES Burns, EN Meese… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Young of the year (YOY) and juvenile-stage white sharks may use southern California
nearshore beach habitats more extensively than previously known, within meters of some of …

Hunting behaviour of white sharks recorded by animal-borne accelerometers and cameras

YY Watanabe, NL Payne, JM Semmens, A Fox… - Marine Ecology …, 2019 - int-res.com
Hunting large, fast-moving mammals by top predators often involves highly energetic burst
locomotion, and studying such behaviour can reveal how physiological capacity shapes …

[HTML][HTML] Wildlife tourism has little energetic impact on the world's largest predatory shark

A Gooden, TM Clarke, L Meyer, C Huveneers - Animal Behaviour, 2024 - Elsevier
Wildlife tourism is expanding globally, driving the need to quantify its potential impacts.
Studies on the effects of marine tourism on wildlife have focused on documenting …

A multidisciplinary framework to assess the sustainability and acceptability of wildlife tourism operations

L Meyer, K Apps, S Bryars, T Clarke… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wildlife tourism is growing in popularity, diversity of target species, and type of tours. This
presents difficulties for management policy that must balance the complex trade‐offs …

Foraging plasticity diversifies mercury exposure sources and bioaccumulation patterns in the world's largest predatory fish

G Le Croizier, JE Sonke, A Lorrain, M Renedo… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Large marine predators exhibit high concentrations of mercury (Hg) as neurotoxic
methylmercury, and the potential impacts of global change on Hg contamination in these …