Segregation and foraging ecology of whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the southwestern Gulf of California

Agriculture & Biology

• Rhincodon typus 100%
• Gulf of California 80%
• sharks 50%
• foraging 46%
• ecology 43%
• aerial surveys 21%
• Euphausiacea 20%
• swarms 18%
• gender 18%
• coastal water 16%
• ships 16%
• food choices 15%
• zooplankton 15%
• rams 15%
• habitat preferences 14%
• Copepoda 14%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• shark 65%
• whale 63%
• ecology 46%
• gulf 43%
• aerial survey 12%
• habitat selection 11%
• suction 9%
• zooplankton 9%
• coastal water 8%
• diet 8%
• ship 8%
• shallow water 8%
• water 3%