reef shark
Effects of including misidentified sharks in life history analyses: a case study on the grey reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos from Papua New Guinea
... Grey Reef Shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos is a medium bodied whaler shark (Fam- ily Carcharhinidae) which is reef associated and has a Indo–West and Central Pacific distribu- tion ...
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The biology and ecology of the blacktip reef shark Carcharhinus melanopterus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) and implications for management
... coral reef environments (Chin et al., 2010). The blacktip reef shark may also be highly sensitive to this ...blacktip reef shark recruits to other areas along the coast and offshore ...
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Drivers of reef shark abundance and biomass in the Solomon Islands
... about shark population status, including access to rigorously collected data and resources to manage ...on shark populations in the Solomon Islands and scientific surveys to document shark and ray ...
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Hypoxic survival strategies in two fishes: extreme anoxia tolerance in the North European crucian carp and natural hypoxic preconditioning in a coral reef shark
... epaulette shark in response to hypoxia ...epaulette shark brainstem after exposure to hypoxia (Renshaw and Dyson, ...epaulette shark in response to hypoxic challenge is unknown, it is evident that NO ...
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Long-term changes in species composition and relative abundances of sharks at a provisioning site
... individual shark species are starting to become known, there is an almost complete lack of equivalent data from multi-species shark diving ...the Shark Reef Marine Reserve, a multi-species ...
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Blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) show high capacity for wound healing and recovery following injury
... in shark research and, as such, circle hooks are recommended over other types (Cooke et ...Blacktip reef sharks appear to be robust to capture and han- dling as shown by low or absent mortality after ...
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Activity seascapes highlight central place foraging strategies in marine predators that never stop swimming
... Grey reef sharks maintained cooler body temper- atures during the day by occasionally diving below the thermocline and showed a greater diel shift in ...grey reef sharks would have warmer muscle ...
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Trophic impact of large predators on coral reefs and management implications
... depending on the risk level posed by the predator. In the present study the consumption of macroalgae and the feeding rate of herbivores both significantly decreased as predation risk increased. While feeding by ...
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Quantifying shark distribution patterns and species-habitat associations: implications of marine park zoning
... on shark abundance Within the GBRMP, there are several fisheries ...the shark catch from the ECIFF is comprised of coastal/inshore species ...the shark catch [51] ...for reef-associated sharks ...
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Residency and spatial use by reef sharks of an isolated seamount and its implications for conservation
... Osprey Reef, could have died during the study, or the transmitters ...whitetip reef shark movements suggest this species has small centres of activity, the three individuals that were not detected ...
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The molecular basis of chloride transport in shark rectal gland
... the shark rectal gland can be considered ‘un porteur par ...The shark rectal gland has served as an extremely useful model for the characterization of such transcellular porter systems primarily because of ...
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Habitat-Associated Soundscapes and their Potential Role as a Settlement Cue for Estuarine Larvae.
... oyster reef sounds between 118-124 dB re 1µPa (Lillis et ...the reef structure at all sites except West ...above reef structure and exposed to these peak reef sound levels ranged from 5-20 ...
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Eco morphological Zonation of Coral reefs at Gulf of Mannar A Geospatial Perspective
... estimated using costly and tedious underwater surveying techniques, hence alternative technique is used by analyzing the multispectral satellite imageries. The present study area of Gulf of Mannar comprises 21 Islands, ...
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Benthic foraminifera: their importance to future reef island resilience
... Raine Reef are entirely composed of the skeletal remains of marine organisms, particularly benthic foraminifera, which constitute between 30-50% of most beach and reef flat ...the reef, at least 20% ...
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SHARK LIVER OIL: A REVIEW
... Ultramarine Shark Liver Oil is extracted from the liver of deep-water Etmopterus sharks, which inhabit the cold, non- polluted waters of New Zealand at depths of 3,000 to 5,000 ...whole shark liver oil is ...
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Fine-scale movements of the broadnose sevengill shark and its main prey, the gummy shark
... VRAP: animal capture and transmitter attachment The VRAP was deployed from the 25 th January to the 22 nd April 2008. Sharks were tagged with coded transmitters (VEMCO Ltd., Halifax, Canada) during the period from the 26 ...
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Testing expectations of connectivity and breeding biology among shark species in a tropical hot spot : the Indo Pacific
... some reef sharks. MtDNA is maternally inherited and many reef sharks show strong population subdivision between regions with discontinuous coastline (Blower et ...
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Shark nursery areas: concepts, definition, characterization and assumptions
... that shark nursery areas provide protection from predation should lead to the prediction that natural mortality rates of juveniles within these habitats are low compared to rates in non-nursery ...lemon ...
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The variable influences of sea level, sedimentation and exposure on Holocene reef development over a cross-shelf transect, central Great Barrier Reef
... past reef responses to natural stressors (cyclones, sea-level change, freshwater inputs, and sedimentation) can provide important insights to further understand recent (within the past century) trends in coral ...
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Three dimensional kinematics and wake structure of the pectoral fins during locomotion in leopard sharks Triakis semifasciata
... which the position of any point in space can be identified by x, y and z values (Fig. 1). The measurements and calculations follow the procedures used in previous research (Ferry and Lauder, 1996; Lauder and Jayne, 1996; ...
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