The Biology of Tiger Sharks, Galeocerdo Cuvier, in Shark Bay, Western Australia: Sex Ratio, Size Distribution, Diet, and Seasonal Changes in Catch Rates

By Michael R. Heithaus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2001

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First characterization of shark nursery habitat in the United States Virgin Islands: evidence of habitat partitioning by two shark species (2008, background): “Therefore, Fish Bay differs markedly in size from other well-studied embayments characterized by high levels of predators (e.g. Shark Bay, Western Australia, Heithaus 2001).”
Size, Sex And Geographic Variation in the Diet of the Tiger Shark, Galeocerdo Cuvier, From Western Australian Waters (2001, background): “Galeocerdo cuvierwas implicated as the primary species responsible for many of these scars and mortalities (Heithaus 2001).”
Does tiger shark predation risk influence foraging habitat use by bottlenose dolphins at multiple spatial scales (2006, background): “The study was conducted in the Eastern Gulf of Shark Bay, a large semi-enclosed bay along the central coast of Western Australia (25845?S, 113844?E; Heithaus 2001d).”
Shark-inflicted injury frequencies, escape ability, and habitat use of green and loggerhead turtles (2002, background): “Therefore, we initiated a study of shark-inflicted injuries on turtles in Shark Bay to gain insights into interactions between sea turtles and their major predator in Shark Bay, the tiger shark ( Heithaus 2001b; Simpfendorfer et al. 2001).”
Spatial and temporal variation in shark communities of the lower Florida Keys and evidence for historical population declines (2007, methodology): “Although we used different fishing methods, tiger sharks and other largebodied species are readily caught on our gear (Heithaus 2001), and our study suggests that numbers of these two previously abundant species have been reduced markedly and, consequently, that they are now rare.”
Complexities of coastal shark movements and their implications for management (2010, background): “Habitats are sometimes shared by both adults and juveniles; Heithaus et al. (2006) found no difference in microhabitat use between tiger sharks that were <3.25 m TL and >3.25 m TL, even though sexual segregation of juveniles exists (Heithaus 2001).”
Aggression in bottlenose dolphins: Evidence for sexual coercion, male-male competition, and female tolerance through analysis of tooth-rake marks and behaviour (2005, unknown): “Other forms of intra-specific aggression, such as body slamming and ramming with the rostrum, would result in more lethal internal damage (Connor et al., 2000b), but we are not likely to find dead animals given the uninhabited coastline and high density of sharks (Heithaus, 2001a, b).”
Scarring patterns and relative mortality rates of Indian Ocean whale sharks (2008, background): “, 2006) are regularly sighted by spotter planes during the peak whale shark season at Ningaloo Reef, and are also temporarily abundant in other areas immediately to the south, such as Shark Bay (Heithaus, 2001b).”
Can environmental heterogeneity explain individual foraging variation in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.)? (2007, unknown): “Transect passes were coded according to season as warm (September– May) or cold (June–August) because the season is associated with shifts in dolphin habitat use and in the community of large vertebrates present in the bay ( Heithaus 2001 ; H eithaus and Dill 2002).”
Sound, chemical, and light detection in sea turtles and pelagic fishes: sensory-based approaches to bycatch reduction in longline fisheries (2008, background): “Shark predation on sea turtles has been documented in nearshore environments (Balazs 1980, Fergusson et al. 2000, Heithaus 2001, Heithaus et al. 2002a,b), but the degree of juvenile and adult sea turtle mortality due to natural predation in the pelagic environment where longline fisheries are…”
The ecological importance of intact top-predator populations: a synthesis of 15 years of research in a seagrass ecosystem (2012, background): “…the proportion of foragers in a habitat divided by the portion of food resources in a habitat) should increase in safer habitats and decrease in dangerous habitats as the overall risk of predation increases (e.g. Abrahams and Dill 1989, Hugie and Dill 1994, Heithaus 2001c, Křivan et al. 2008).”
A multiple instrument approach to quantifying the movement patterns and habitat use of tiger (Galeocerdo cuvier) and Galapagos sharks (Carcharhinus galapagensis) at French Frigate Shoals, Hawaii (2010, background): “Tiger shark catch rates vary seasonally at the latitudinal extremes of their distribution, indicating that seasonal migrations may occur in some areas ( Heithaus 2001; Wirsing et al. 2006).”
Living on the edge: dugongs prefer to forage in microhabitats that allow escape from rather than avoidance of predators (2007, methodology): “When foraging over shallow seagrass meadows, tiger sharks show a consistent preference for edge microhabitats , putatively in an attempt to match the combined distribution of several of their major prey species (Heithaus 2001a; Heithaus et al. 2006).”
Long-term movements of tiger sharks satellite-tagged in Shark Bay, Western Australia (2007, methodology): “Finally, our method for using single satellite uplinks may be useful in estimating movements for wide-ranging species that rarely provide high quality location estimates.”