Reef manta rays forage on tidally driven, high density zooplankton patches in Hanifaru Bay, Maldives.
Foraging ecology
Foraging threshold
Megafauna
Mobulid ray
Undinula
ZooScan
Zooplanktivore
Journal
PeerJ
ISSN: 2167-8359
Titre abrégé: PeerJ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603425
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
28
04
2021
accepted:
27
07
2021
entrez:
13
9
2021
pubmed:
14
9
2021
medline:
14
9
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Manta rays forage for zooplankton in tropical and subtropical marine environments, which are generally nutrient-poor. Feeding often occurs at predictable locations where these large, mobile cartilaginous fishes congregate to exploit ephemeral productivity hotspots. Investigating the zooplankton dynamics that lead to such feeding aggregations remains a key question for understanding their movement ecology. The aim of this study is to investigate the feeding environment at the largest known aggregation for reef manta rays
Identifiants
pubmed: 34513330
doi: 10.7717/peerj.11992
pii: 11992
pmc: PMC8388554
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e11992Informations de copyright
©2021 Armstrong et al.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Guy M.W. Stevens and Annie Murray are employed by the Manta Trust. The authors declare that there are no other competing interests.
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