The movement ecology of fishes

SJ Cooke, JN Bergman, WM Twardek… - Journal of Fish …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Movement of fishes in the aquatic realm is fundamental to their ecology and survival.
Movement can be driven by a variety of biological, physiological and environmental factors …

Biologging physiological and ecological responses to climatic variation: new tools for the climate change era

HE Chmura, TW Glass, CT Williams - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In this mini-review, we discuss how biologging technology can be used to detect,
understand, and forecast species' responses to climate change. We review studies of …

Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems

KO Lear, NM Whitney, JJ Morris… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Niche partitioning of time, space or resources is considered the key to allowing the
coexistence of competitor species, and particularly guilds of predators. However, the extent …

Buried in the sand: Uncovering the ecological roles and importance of rays

KI Flowers, MR Heithaus… - Fish and Fisheries, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rays (superorder Batoidea) are the most diverse group of elasmobranchs, and many are
threatened with extinction. However, there remain areas where research on the ecology of …

Analysis of animal accelerometer data using hidden Markov models

V Leos‐Barajas, T Photopoulou… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Use of accelerometers is now widespread within animal biologging as they provide a means
of measuring an animal's activity in a meaningful and quantitative way where direct …

Towards an integrated science of movement: converging research on animal movement ecology and human mobility science

HJ Miller, S Dodge, J Miller, G Bohrer - International Journal of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
There is long-standing scientific interest in understanding purposeful movement by animals
and humans. Traditionally, collecting data on individual moving entities was difficult and time …

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 …

Where land meets sea: Intertidal areas as key‐habitats for sharks and rays

G Leurs, BO Nieuwenhuis, TJ Zuidewind… - Fish and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intertidal habitats (ie marine habitats that are (partially) exposed during low tide) have
traditionally been studied from a shorebird‐centred perspective. We show that these habitats …

Quantification of Massive Seasonal Aggregations of Blacktip Sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) in Southeast Florida

SM Kajiura, SL Tellman - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Southeast Florida witnesses an enormous seasonal influx of upper trophic level marine
predators each year as massive aggregations of migrating blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus …

Northeast Atlantic elasmobranch community on the move: Functional reorganization in response to climate change

N Coulon, S Elliott, N Teichert, A Auber… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
While spatial distribution shifts have been documented in many marine fishes under global
change, the responses of elasmobranchs have rarely been studied, which may have led to …