The Influence of Environmental Variables on the Distribution and Abundance of Three Elasmobranchs in Tomales Bay, California

By T. E. Hopkins, J. Cech. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2003

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Subfields: Aquatic Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Aquatic Science

1. M. Heupel
2. D. W. Sims
3. M. Espinoza
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In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. M. Espinoza
3. D. W. Sims
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5. M. Heupel
6. A. Collins
7. A. Carlisle
8. R. Starr

Citations in the corpus

• Residence and movement patterns of cownose rays Rhinoptera bonasus within a south‐west Florida estuary (2007, background): “Bat rays Myliobatis californica Gill, 1865, in Tomales Bay, California, U.S.A., were documented within 1 km of their initial tagging site after periods of 106, 359 and 583 days during a tag-recapture study ( Hopkins & Cech, 2003 ).”
• 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 ).”
• 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): “Additionally, changes in water temperature influenced seasonal abundances of brown smoothhounds (BSH), bat rays Myliobatis californica and leopard sharks in Tomales Bay, northern California (Hopkins and Cech, 2003).”
• The role of learning in shark behaviour (2009, background): “The vast information available on shark movement and space utilization (Nelson 1977; Simpfendorfer and Heupel 2004) recognizes that sharks can track both abiotic (Hopkins and Cech 2003) and biotic (Heithaus et al.”
• Habitat use, residency, and seasonal distribution of female leopard sharks Triakis semifasciata in Elkhorn Slough, California (2009, background): “Our results support the hypothesis that leopard sharks are seasonally abundant in bays and estuaries and that some proportion of the population leaves these areas in winter (Smith & Abramson 1990, Yoklavich et al. 1991, Hopkins & Cech 2003).”