August 10th, 2019

Global diet analysis of 23 species of chondrichthyes

Global diet analysis of 23 species of chondrichthyes

Feeding together: a global diet analysis of twenty-three species of chondrichthyes on a feeding ground area Mauro Belleggia, Cristian Battagliotti, Federico Cortés, Jorge Horacio Colonello ABSTRACT: A global analysis of the diet of chondrichthyes (23 species) was conducted during one bottom-trawl research cruise in the region where the highest catches of skates occurred off southwestern

Environmental characteristics associated with the presence of the Spinetail devil ray in the eastern tropical Pacific

Environmental characteristics associated with the presence of the Spinetail devil ray in the eastern tropical Pacific

Environmental characteristics associated with the presence of the Spinetail devil ray (Mobula mobular) in the eastern tropical Pacific Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Martin A. Hall, Maria Grazia Pennino, Joshua D. Stewart, Jon López, Hilario Murua ABSTRACT: In the eastern Pacific Ocean, the tropical tuna purse-seine fishery incidentally captures high numbers of five mobulid bycatch species; all of

Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators

Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators

Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators across the Indo-Pacific Tom B. Letessier, David Mouillot, Phil J. Bouchet, Laurent Vigliola, Marjorie C. Fernandes, Chris Thompson, Germain Boussarie, Jemma Turner, Jean-Baptiste Juhel, Eva Maire, M. Julian Caley, Heather J. Koldewey, Alan Friedlander, Enric Sala, Jessica J. Meeuwig ABSTRACT: Since the 1950s, industrial