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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...
Autores principales: | Graham, Rachel T., Witt, Matthew J., Castellanos, Dan W., Remolina, Francisco, Maxwell, Sara, Godley, Brendan J., Hawkes, Lucy A. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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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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