Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) biology and ecology: A review of the primary literature
By J. Stevens. 2007
128 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8f34661b70e74b3dbf73b0a5900bc5ff89133bfa
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In Aquatic Science
- S. Fordham
- A. Marshall
- C. Dudgeon
- Sarah V. Valenti
- Corey J. A. Bradshaw
- D. Rowat
- M. Meekan
- Claudine Gibson
In Nature and Landscape Conservation
- Corey J. A. Bradshaw
- M. Meekan
- C. Speed
- Anthony J. Richardson
- M. Gibbons
- Claudine Gibson
- S. Fordham
- D. W. Sims
Citations in the corpus
- The conservation status of pelagic sharks and rays : report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop (2009, background): “There are no catch data for whale sharks in the FAO database (FAO 2009) and relatively little is published in the primary literature concerning their fisheries (Stevens 2007).”
- Scarring patterns and relative mortality rates of Indian Ocean whale sharks (2008, background): “Due to relatively thin sub-dermal fat layers, whale shark carcasses may sink quickly in comparison to whales (Ward-Geiger et al., 2005) so that most deaths due to collisions probably go unnoticed (Stevens, 2007).”
- Basking sharks and oceanographic fronts: quantifying associations in the north‐east Atlantic (2015, background): “…Rhincodon typus; leatherback turtle, Dermochelys coriacea; and manta ray, Manta birostris exist on an energetic ‘knife-edge’, and so must maximize prey encounter rates in patchy pelagic prey seascapes in order to survive (Sims 1999, 2008; Hays et al. 2006; Stevens 2007; Fossette et al. 2010).”
- Diet of whale sharks Rhincodon typus inferred from stomach content and signature fatty acid analyses (2013, background): “Reef manta rays are ecologically similar to whale sharks in that they are both large, filter-feeding elasmobranchs that live mainly in tropical and sub-tropical waters (Stevens 2007, Marshall et al. 2009).”
- Size and structure of a photographically identified population of manta rays Manta alfredi in southern Mozambique (2011, background): “Subtropical hotspots have been identified worldwide as areas rich in species density and diversity (Worm et al. 2005), with aggregation sites for pelagic megafauna often present and conspicuous ( Stevens 2007 ).”
- Ocean‐scale prediction of whale shark distribution (2012, background): “This behaviour makes them the subject of highly lucrative ecotourism industries around the world (Martin, 2007; Rowat & Engelhardt, 2007), although in the past, such aggregations have also been targeted by commercial fishing (Joung et al., 1996; Pravin, 2000; Stevens, 2007; White & Cavanagh, 2007).”