Estimating the geographic range of a threatened shark in a data-poor region: Cetorhinus maximus in the South Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Current Zoology
• Main Authors: Lucifora, Luis Omar, Barbini, Santiago Aldo, Di Giacomo, Edgardo Ernesto, Waessle, Juan A., Figueroa, Daniel Enrique
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Basking Shark; Chondrichthyes; Geographic Range; Maxent; Maxlike; Southern Hemisphere; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Nordeste; Cetorhinus maximus; North Atlantic; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/44724

The distribution of the planktivorous basking shark Cetorhinus maximus is influenced by zooplankton abundance at small scales and temperature at medium scales in the North Atlantic. Here, we estimate the distribution of basking sharks on South Atlantic continental shelves, and the relative importanc...