Elasmobranch responses to experimental warming, acidification, and oxygen loss—a meta-analysis

CP Santos, E Sampaio, BP Pereira… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Despite the long evolutionary history of this group, the challenges brought by the
Anthropocene have been inflicting an extensive pressure over sharks and their relatives …

Effects of climate‐change‐driven gradual and acute temperature changes on shark and ray species

GJ Osgood, ER White, JK Baum - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is altering distributions and abundances of marine species through both
gradual and acute changes in temperature and productivity. Due to their high mobility and …

Development and application of a machine learning algorithm for classification of elasmobranch behaviour from accelerometry data

LR Brewster, JJ Dale, TL Guttridge, SH Gruber… - Marine biology, 2018 - Springer
Discerning behaviours of free-ranging animals allows for quantification of their activity
budget, providing important insight into ecology. Over recent years, accelerometers have …

Estimating oxygen uptake rates to understand stress in sharks and rays

IA Bouyoucos, CA Simpfendorfer… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2019 - Springer
Elasmobranch populations face worldwide declines owing to anthropogenic stressors, with
lethal and sub-lethal consequences. Oxygen uptake rates (̇ MM˙ O 2, typically measured in …

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 …

Swimming strategies and energetics of endothermic white sharks during foraging

YY Watanabe, NL Payne… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Some fishes and sea turtles are distinct from ectotherms by having elevated core body
temperatures and metabolic rates. Quantifying the energetics and activity of the regionally …

Fossil dermal denticles reveal the preexploitation baseline of a Caribbean coral reef shark community

EM Dillon, DJ McCauley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Preexploitation shark baselines and the history of human impact on coral reef–associated
shark communities in the Caribbean are poorly understood. We recovered shark dermal …

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 …

Temperature and the vertical movements of oceanic whitetip sharks, Carcharhinus longimanus

S Andrzejaczek, AC Gleiss, LKB Jordan… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Large-bodied pelagic ectotherms such as sharks need to maintain internal temperatures
within a favourable range in order to maximise performance and be cost-efficient foragers …

Correlations of metabolic rate and body acceleration in three species of coastal sharks under contrasting temperature regimes

KO Lear, NM Whitney, LR Brewster… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
The ability to produce estimates of the metabolic rate of free-ranging animals is fundamental
to the study of their ecology. However, measuring the energy expenditure of animals in the …