Satellite Tracking of Manta Rays Highlights Challenges to Their Conservation

We describe the real-time movements of the last of the marine mega-vertebrate taxa to be satellite tracked – the giant manta ray (or devil fish, Manta birostris), the world's largest ray at over 6 m disc width. Almost nothing is known about manta ray movements and their environmental preference...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Graham, Rachel T., Witt, Matthew J., Castellanos, Dan W., Remolina, Francisco, Maxwell, Sara, Godley, Brendan J., Hawkes, Lucy A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22590622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036834

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22590622
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036834

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