Royale S. Hardenstine

TL;DR: The results reveal the profound impact that fishing has had on reef shark populations: no sharks on almost 20% of the surveyed reefs, and shark depletion was strongly related to socio-economic conditions such as the size and proximity of the nearest market, poor governance and the density of the human population.

TL;DR: Bleaching was most prevalent on inshore reefs and on shallower transects within reefs, and Coral genera with the highest levels of bleaching were also among the rarest (<1% of coral cover) in 2015.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the aggregation is seasonal, mostly concentrated on the exposed side of Shib Habil, and seems to attract sharks of both sexes in roughly equal numbers, and that Sightings-independent data from acoustic telemetry and other sources are an effective means of validating more common visual surveys.

TL;DR: The results are broadly similar to those from other aggregations of R. typus, although the observed sexual parity and integration found at this site is unique for the species and needs further study.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors show how satellite tracking whale sharks and large vessel movements globally provides a means to localize high-overlap areas and to determine how collision risk changes in time.