To Madagascar and back: long-distance, return migration across open ocean by a pregnant female bull shark Carcharhinus leucas


Autoria(s): Lea, JSE; Humphries, NE; Clarke, CR; Sims, DW
Data(s)

30/12/2015

Resumo

A large, pregnant, female bull shark Carcharhinus leucas was tracked migrating from Seychelles across open ocean to south-east Madagascar, c. 2000 km away, and back again. In Madagascar, the shark spent a prolonged period shallower than 5 m, consistent with entering estuarine habitat to pup, and upon return to Seychelles the shark was slender and no longer gravid. This represents an unprecedented return migration across the open ocean for a C. leucas and highlights the need for international collaboration to manage the regional C. leucas population sustainably.

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text

Identificador

http://plymsea.ac.uk/7192/1/Lea-etal_BullSharkMigration_JFB2015.pdf

Lea, JSE; Humphries, NE; Clarke, CR; Sims, DW. 2015 To Madagascar and back: long-distance, return migration across open ocean by a pregnant female bull shark Carcharhinus leucas [in special issue: FSBI Symposium. University of Plymouth, U.K. 27–31 July 2015] Journal of Fish Biology, 87 (6). 1313-1321. 10.1111/jfb.12805 <http://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12805>

Idioma(s)

en

Publicador

The Fisheries Society of the British Isles/John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Relação

http://plymsea.ac.uk/7192/

http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfb.12805

10.1111/jfb.12805

Direitos

cc_by_nc_nd

Tipo

Publication - Article

PeerReviewed