Living on the edge: dugongs prefer to forage in microhabitats that allow escape from rather than avoidance of predators

By Aaron J. Wirsing, Michael R. Heithaus, Lawrence M. Dill. Animal Behaviour, 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators (2014, background): “Specifically, the seasonal presence of tiger sharks in Shark Bay, Australia, was found to limit the habitat use and abundance of dolphins and dugongs in productive, shallow areas (Heit haus & Dill 2002, 2006, Wirsing et al. 2007, Wirsing & Heithaus 2007).”
Long-term movements of tiger sharks satellite-tagged in Shark Bay, Western Australia (2007, background): “At smaller spatial scales, dolphins and dugongs reduce their use of the more dangerous interior portions of shallow banks relative to edge microhabitats to reduce their probability of being captured by tiger sharks (Heithaus et al. 2006; Heithaus and Dill 2006; Wirsing et al. 2007).”
Diversity in trophic interactions of green sea turtles Chelonia mydas on a relatively pristine coastal foraging ground (2011, unknown): “The slow-growing and relatively herbivoryresistant Amphibolis antarctica makes up the vast majority of the seagrass in the study area (Wirsing et al. 2007).”
Spatial responses to predators vary with prey escape mode (2010, background): “For example, a series of marine studies (Heithaus & Dill 2006; Wirsing et al. 2007; Heithaus et al. 2009; Wirsing & Heithaus 2009) and a terrestrial study (Lingle 2002) showed that the presence of a predator (tiger sharks and coyotes, respectively) can drive certain prey species away while actually ”
The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem (2012, background): “…shark fishing to demonstrate that the abundance of dugongs in the study area explains a considerable amount of the variation in shark catch rates (Wirsing et al. 2007d), while our tracking studies of sharks suggest that their preference for shallow habitats is influenced by the abundance of…”