Tracking white sharks in a dynamic system at the southern tip of Africa
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Biotechnology, Conservation Biology, Ecology
- Keywords
- White Shark, Carcharodon carcharias, South Africa, Acoustic Telemetry, Manual Tracking
- Copyright
- © 2016 Jewell et al.
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2016. Tracking white sharks in a dynamic system at the southern tip of Africa. PeerJ PrePrints 4:e1689v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1689v1
Abstract
Sharks and rays are among the most important of marine megafauna as they are ecologically vital predators. However, most species are threatened and over exploited. Identifying core-habitats and movement patterns within aggregation areas is critical for conservation and management efforts. White sharks are threatened globally and considered at risk of extinction. South Africa hosts the largest known concentration of the species with several documented coastal aggregations. This digital object details the various types of biotelemetry used to collect movement data from sharks as well as deployment methods and data analysis, with specific emphasis on active acoustic transmitters and manual tracking of individual sharks in Gansbaai, Western Cape (as in Jewell et al., 2014).
Author Comment
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