Expanded niche for white sharks.
Until the advent of electronic tagging technology, the inherent difficulty of studying swift and powerful marine animals made ecological information about sharks of the family Lamnidae difficult to obtain. Here we report the tracking of movements of white sharks by using pop-up satellite archival tags, which reveal that their migratory movements, depth and ambient thermal ranges are wider than was previously thought.
Boustany
Andre M
AM
Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Stanford University and Monterey Bay Aquarium, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California 93950, USA.
Davis
Scott F
SF
Pyle
Peter
P
Anderson
Scot D
SD
Le Boeuf
Burney J
BJ
Block
Barbara A
BA
D025041:Animal Migration; D000818:Animals; D002140:California; D004242:Diving; D004777:Environment; D006254:Hawaii; D008386:Marine Biology / Q000379:methods; D010140:Pacific Ocean; D012754:Sharks / Q000502:physiology*; D013550:Swimming; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors