Biology & Life Sciences

Marine Megafauna: Marine Ecology and Technology

Published May 30, 2018 Curated Collections

This section of the Marine Megafauna collection provides examples of studies that address the behavior and ecology of marine megafauna through the use of new technology and novel analytical tools.

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Research Articles

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10.1371/journal.pone.0009324

PLOS ONE Novel Acoustic Technology for Studying Free-Ranging Shark Social Behaviour by Recording Individuals’ Interactions
February 19, 2010 Tristan L. Guttridge, Samuel H. Gruber, Jens Krause, David W. Sims
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10.1371/journal.pone.0031329

PLOS ONE Massive Consumption of Gelatinous Plankton by Mediterranean Apex Predators
March 21, 2012 Luis Cardona, Irene Alvarez de Quevedo, Assumpció Borrell, Alex Aguilar
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10.1371/journal.pone.0019173

PLOS ONE Super-Aggregations of Krill and Humpback Whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula
April 27, 2011 Douglas Nowacek, Ari Friedlaender, Pat Halpin, Elliott Hazen, David Johnston, Andrew Read, Boris Espinasse, Meng Zhou, Yiwu Zhu
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10.1371/journal.pone.0079556

PLOS ONE Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Surveying Marine Fauna: A Dugong Case Study
November 4, 2013 Amanda Hodgson, Natalie Kelly, David Peel
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10.1371/journal.pone.0007322

PLOS ONE From the Eye of the Albatrosses: A Bird-Borne Camera Shows an Association between Albatrosses and a Killer Whale in the Southern Ocean
October 7, 2009 Kentaro Q. Sakamoto, Akinori Takahashi, Takashi Iwata, Philip N. Trathan
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10.1371/journal.pone.0062127

PLOS ONE Home Range Utilisation and Long-Range Movement of Estuarine Crocodiles during the Breeding and Nesting Season
May 1, 2013 hamish campbell, Ross Dwyer, Craig Franklin, Terri Irwin
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10.1371/journal.pone.0004711

PLOS ONE A Parsimonious Approach to Modeling Animal Movement Data
March 5, 2009 Yann Tremblay, Patrick W. Robinson, Daniel P. Costa
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10.1371/journal.pone.0053348

PLOS ONE Prey Patch Patterns Predict Habitat Use by Top Marine Predators with Diverse Foraging Strategies
January 3, 2013 Kelly Benoit-Bird, Brian Battaile, Scott Heppell, Brian Hoover, David Irons, Nathan Jones, Kathy Kuletz, Chad Nordstrom, Rosana Paredes, Robert Suryan, Chad Waluk, Andrew Trites
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10.1371/journal.pone.0014245

PLOS ONE Hierarchical State-Space Estimation of Leatherback Turtle Navigation Ability
December 28, 2010 Joanna Mills Flemming, Ian D. Jonsen, Ransom A. Myers, Christopher A. Field
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10.1371/journal.pone.0006151

PLOS ONE Seasonal Movements, Aggregations and Diving Behavior of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Revealed with Archival Tags
July 7, 2009 Andreas Walli, Steven L. H. Teo, Andre Boustany, Charles J. Farwell, Tom Williams, Heidi Dewar, Eric Prince, Barbara A. Block
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10.1371/journal.pone.0009839

PLOS ONE Buoyancy under Control: Underwater Locomotor Performance in a Deep Diving Seabird Suggests Respiratory Strategies for Reducing Foraging Effort
March 23, 2010 Timothée R. Cook, Akiko Kato, Hideji Tanaka, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Charles-André Bost
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10.1371/journal.pone.0037997

PLOS ONE From Sensor Data to Animal Behaviour: An Oystercatcher Example
May 31, 2012 Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Roeland Bom, E. van Loon, Bruno Ens, Kees Oosterbeek, Willem Bouten
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10.1371/journal.pone.0055163

PLOS ONE Adélie Penguin Foraging Location Predicted by Tidal Regime Switching
January 30, 2013 Matthew Oliver, Andrew Irwin, Mark Moline, William Fraser, Donna Patterson, Oscar Schofield, Josh Kohut
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10.1371/journal.pone.0070748

PLOS ONE Individual Foraging Strategies Reveal Niche Overlap between Endangered Galapagos Pinnipeds
August 15, 2013 Stella Villegas-Amtmann, Jana Jeglinski, Daniel Costa, Patrick Robinson, Fritz Trillmich
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10.1371/journal.pone.0036728

PLOS ONE Foraging Behavior and Success of a Mesopelagic Predator in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Insights from a Data-Rich Species, the Northern Elephant Seal
May 15, 2012 Patrick Robinson, Daniel Costa, Daniel Crocker, Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso, Cory Champagne, Melinda Fowler, Chandra Goetsch, Kimberly Goetz, Jason Hassrick, Luis Hückstädt, Carey Kuhn, Jennifer Maresh, Sara Maxwell, Birgitte McDonald, Sarah Peterson, Samantha Simmons, Nicole Teutschel, Stella Villegas-Amtmann, Ken Yoda
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10.1371/journal.pone.0064166

PLOS ONE Using Hierarchical Bayes to Understand Movement, Health, and Survival in the Endangered North Atlantic Right Whale
June 6, 2013 Robert Schick, Scott Kraus, Rosalind Rolland, Amy Knowlton, Philip Hamilton, Heather Pettis, Robert Kenney, James Clark
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10.1371/journal.pone.0037216

PLOS ONE Spatial Variation in Foraging Behaviour of a Marine Top Predator (Phoca vitulina) Determined by a Large-Scale Satellite Tagging Program
May 21, 2012 Ruth Sharples, Simon Moss, Toby Patterson, Philip Hammond

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10.1371/journal.pone.0031311

PLOS ONE A Synthesis of Tagging Studies Examining the Behaviour and Survival of Anadromous Salmonids in Marine Environments
March 14, 2012 Stephen Drenner, Timothy Clark, Charlotte Whitney, Eduardo Martins, Steven Cooke, Scott Hinch