Diel Movements of Bat Rays, Myliobatis californica, in Tomales Bay, California: Evidence for Behavioral Thermoregulation?

By S. Matern, J. Cech, T. E. Hopkins. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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The Influence of Environmental Variables on the Distribution and Abundance of Three Elasmobranchs in Tomales Bay, California (2003, background): “Although the low temperatures could have simply eliminated foraging (Koskela et al. 1997), Matern et al. (2000) showed that bat rays with implanted ultrasonic transmitters were not present in Tomales Bay during the coldest winter months.”
Heat-seeking sharks: support for behavioural thermoregulation in reef sharks (2012, background): “…models contrasted: number of parameters (k), maximum log-likelihood (LL), Akaike’s information criterion corrected for small samples AICc, AICc weight (wAICc), and the % deviation explained (%DE) Mar Ecol Prog Ser 463: 231–244, 2012 as well as bat rays Myliobatis californica (Matern et al. 2000).”
Thermal Tolerance Responses of Laboratory-Acclimated and Seasonally Acclimatized Atlantic Stingray, Dasyatis sabina (2003, background): “Field observations from the Bahamas (Roberts et al., 1982), Bermuda (Verril, 1901), southeastern United States (Wells et al., 1961, Snelson and Bradley, 1978; Provancha et al., 1986), and Gulf of Mexico (Moore, 1976) report only two bull sharks, Carcharhinus leucas, one bluntnose stingray, Dasyatis ”
Effects of Parturition and Feeding on Thermal Preference of Atlantic Stingray, Dasyatis sabina (Lesueur) (2006, background): “…researchers to argue that these fishes maximize efficiency by feeding in warm waters, and then moving to cooler temperatures to slow evacuation rates, thereby allocating more time for nutrient absorption (Wurtsburgh & Neverman 1988, Carey & Scharold 1990, Hopkins & Cech 1994, Matern et al. 2000).”
Hard prey specialists or opportunistic generalists? An examination of the diet of the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus (2007, background): “Sasko (2000) documented winnowing behaviour in feeding R.”
Habitat use, residency, and seasonal distribution of female leopard sharks Triakis semifasciata in Elkhorn Slough, California (2009, background): “Metabolic and physiological processes of ectothermic sharks are strongly influenced by temperature (Matern et al. 2000, Lowe 223 Mar Ecol Prog Ser 380: 213–228, 2009 2001, Carlson et al. 2004).”
Review of Elasmobranch Behavioral Studies Using Ultrasonic Telemetry with Special Reference to the Lemon Shark, Negaprion Brevirostris, Around Bimini Islands, Bahamas (2001, background): “ Matern et al. (2000) argued that this movement pattern resulted from the animal’s thermoregulatory behavior.”
Movement and distribution of young bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas in a variable estuarine environment (2008, background): “For example, Matern et al. (2000) revealed that bat rays Myliobatis californica used behavioral thermoregulation to lower energetic demands and provide added energy by decreasing gastric evacuation rate.”
Movement patterns of the round stingray Urobatis halleri(Cooper) near a thermal outfall (2006, background): “Water temperature has been shown to influence the distribution, abundance and movement patterns of marine ectothermic fishes, including many elasmobranchs (Snelson & Williams, 1981; Matern et al., 2000; Hopkins & Cech, 2003).”
Diel movement patterns of the Hawaiian stingray, Dasyatis lata: implications for ecological interactions between sympatric elasmobranch species (2003, background): “For example, acoustic telemetry studies of bat rays, Myliobatis californica, in Tomales Bay, California, suggest that their diel movement patterns are related to thermoregulation (Matern et al. 2000), while the movements of eagle rays, Aetobatus narinari, in Bimini, Bahamas, were associated with tid”
Habitat use, movements and site fidelity of the gray smooth-hound shark (Mustelus californicus Gill 1863) in a newly restored southern California estuary (2011, background): “Similar diel movements have been reported in bat rays, which are thought to be related to behavioral thermoregulation (Matern et al., 2000).”
Elevated body temperatures of adult female leopard sharks, Triakis semifasciata, while aggregating in shallow nearshore embayments: Evidence for behavioral thermoregulation? (2007, background): “…Bay, California were found to forage over mud flats during times of day when water temperatures are elevated, then move to cooler water after feeding, which has been hypothesized to increase energy efficiency by lowering gastric evacuation rates and decreasing metabolic rate (Matern et al., 2000).”