Estimation of mortality of juvenile blacktip sharks, Carcharhinus limbatus, within a nursery area using telemetry data

By M. Heupel, C. Simpfendorfer. 2002

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Aquatic Science

1. C. Simpfendorfer
2. M. Heupel
3. T. Kenchington
4. R. Hueter
5. D. Knip
6. A. Stoner
7. A. Tobin
8. J. Carlson

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. C. Simpfendorfer
2. M. Heupel
3. D. Knip
4. A. Tobin
5. M. Espinoza
6. R. Hueter
7. T. Kenchington
8. M. Kinney

Citations in the corpus

• Maximum intrinsic rate of population increase in sharks, rays, and chimaeras: the importance of survival to maturity (2016, unknown): “Nonetheless, direct estimates of differential juvenile mortality are still missing from both models, and motivates further research on this topic (Heupel and Simpfendorfer, 2002).”
• First characterization of shark nursery habitat in the United States Virgin Islands: evidence of habitat partitioning by two shark species (2008, background): “Morrissey & Gruber (1993) concluded that depth plays a significant role for young lemon sharks in the Bahamas and suggested that young lemon sharks remain in shallow water to avoid their major predators.”
• Assessing Stress and Predicting Mortality in Economically Significant Crustaceans (2012, background): “While acoustic tags have been used to track survival of large fishes released after capture (Heupel and Simpfendorfer, 2002; Yergey et al., 2012), the numerous telemetry studies with crustacean subjects are most often focused on determining movement patterns and habitat use for lobsters (Smith et…”
• Environmental influences on the occurrence of coastal sharks in estuarine waters (2010, background): “In a study of blacktip sharks, Heupel and Simpfendorfer (2002) reported highest mortality rates during the first 15 weeks of life when animals are smallest and susceptible to the widest range of predators.”
• Running before the storm: blacktip sharks respond to falling barometric pressure associated with Tropical Storm Gabrielle (2003, background): “During the summer of 2001, a series of 25 underwater acoustic receivers continuously monitored the positions of 41 young-of-the-year (YOY) blacktip sharks fitted with transmitters (Heupel & Hueter, 2001; Heupel & Simpfendorfer, 2002) for periods of 1–145 days.”
• Nursery function of tropical back-reef systems (2006, background): “Predation is a major influence on juvenile fish abundance both through natural causes (e.g. Shulman 1984, 1985, Hixon & Beets 1993, Sweatman & Robertson 1994, Beukers & Jones 1997, Nanami & Nishihira 2001) and through fishing pressure (Heupel & Simpfendorfer 2002).”
• Fitness landscape of Atlantic cod shaped by harvest selection and natural selection (2011, background): “As an example, the fate of juvenile blacktip sharks (Carcharhinus limbatus) has been studied by acoustic monitoring throughout one of their nursery areas, where natural mortality was inferred from cessation of movement, while fishing mortality was inferred from cessation of observations (disappearan”
• Shark nursery areas: concepts, definition, characterization and assumptions (2007, background): “Analysis of acoustic monitoring data of juvenile blacktip sharks within Terra Ceia Bay, Florida, revealed natural mortality rates of 32 to 70% in the first 15 wk of summer (Heupel & Simpfendorfer 2002).”
• Foraging ecology of the early life stages of four sympatric shark species (2004, unknown): “For example, Heupel & Simpfendorfer (2002) found that juvenile blacktip sharks in Terra Ceia Bay, Florida, were most susceptible to mortality in the first 15 wk of life (neonate and young-of-the-year life stages).”
• A nursery Area for Sharks and Rays in Northeastern Brazil (2006, background): “Hypotheses concerning nursery areas generally suggest that these provide a better source of food and protection against predation (Springer 1967), conditions that would help to counterbalance the early mortality rate (Branstetter 1990, Heupel & Simpfendorfer 2002).”
• Sharks in nearshore environments: models, importance, and consequences (2010, background): “In an example from a bay where fishing occurred, natural and fishing mortalities in a population of young blacktip sharks Carcharhinus limbatus were estimated to be 32 to 70% and 41 to 60% respectively, resulting in a high total mortality of 61 to 91% (Heupel & Simpfendorfer 2002).”
• Estuarine nursery areas provide a low-mortality environment for young bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas (2011, background): “Data for blacktip sharks are from Heupel & Simpfendorfer (2002), data for lemon sharks are from (A) Manire & Gruber (1993), (B) Gruber et al. (2001) and (C) de Freitas et al. (2009), data for school sharks are from Xiao et al. (1999) and data from tiger sharks are from Driggers et al. (2008) Mar…”
• Communal or competitive? Stable isotope analysis provides evidence of resource partitioning within a communal shark nursery (2011, background): “…or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher Mar Ecol Prog Ser 439: 263–276, 2011 Carcharhinus limbatus within Terra Ceia Bay, Flo - rida, USA, were attributed to natural mortality, inclu - ding predation, starvation, and disease (Heupel & Simpfendorfer 2002).”