Whale shark economics: a valuation of wildlife tourism in South Ari Atoll, Maldives [PDF]
PeerJ, 2014 Whale sharks attract large numbers of tourists, divers and snorkelers each year to South Ari Atoll in the Republic of Maldives. Yet without information regarding the use and economic extent of the attraction, it is difficult to prioritize conservation or
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Improving sightings-derived residency estimation for whale shark aggregations: A novel metric applied to a global data set [PDF]
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 The world’s largest extant fish, the whale shark Rhincodon typus, is one of the most-studied species of sharks globally. The discovery of predictable aggregation sites where these animals gather seasonally or are sighted year-round – most of which are ...
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Dynamics of whale shark occurrence at their fringe oceanic habitat. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Studies have shown that the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), a vulnerable large filter feeder, seasonally aggregates at highly productive coastal sites and that individuals can perform large, trans-boundary migrations to reach these locations.
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Spatio-temporal patterns, trends, and oceanographic drivers of whale shark strandings in Indonesia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsDespite the increased international attention to whale shark conservation, their populations remain predominantly depleted due to anthropogenic activities such as fishing, ship collisions, and marine pollution.
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The ecological connectivity of whale shark aggregations in the Indian Ocean: a photo-identification approach [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Genetic and modelling studies suggest that seasonal aggregations of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) at coastal sites in the tropics may be linked by migration.
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Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Seasonal Occurrence, Abundance and Demographic Structure in the Mid-Equatorial Atlantic Ocean. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Whale sharks are generally associated with environmental factors that drive their movements to specific locations where food availability is high. Consequently, foraging is believed to be the main reason for the formation of whale shark aggregations ...
Bruno C L Macena, Fábio H V Hazin
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The whale shark genome reveals how genomic and physiological properties scale with body size [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Hak-min Kim, George Church, Sang Wha Kim
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Species associated with whale sharks Rhincodon typus (Orectolobiformes, Rhincodontidae) in the Galapagos Archipelago [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Whale sharks Rhincodon typus frequently appear to interact or associate with other species, which vary depending on the community structure and the demographic of the whale sharks at each location globally. Here, we present the species sighted frequently
Sofia Green, Alex Hearn, Jonathan Green
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Global collision-risk hotspots of marine traffic and the world's largest fish, the whale shark. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Marine traffic is increasing globally yet collisions with endangered megafauna such as whales, sea turtles, and planktivorous sharks go largely undetected or unreported.
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Scientific Reports, 2021 The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) is an endangered species with a declining global population. The South Ari Atoll Marine Protected Area (SAMPA), Maldives, is one of few locations globally where year-long residency of individuals occurs.
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