AUTHOR=Rohner Christoph A. , Cochran Jesse E. M. , Cagua E. Fernando , Prebble Clare E. M. , Venables Stephanie K. , Berumen Michael L. , Kuguru Baraka L. , Rubens Jason , Brunnschweiler Juerg M. , Pierce Simon J. TITLE=No Place Like Home? High Residency and Predictable Seasonal Movement of Whale Sharks Off Tanzania JOURNAL=Frontiers in Marine Science VOLUME=Volume 7 - 2020 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00423 DOI=10.3389/fmars.2020.00423 ISSN=2296-7745 ABSTRACT=
Highly mobile marine megafauna species, while widely distributed and frequently threatened, often aggregate in distinct localized habitats. Implementation of local management initiatives within these hotspots is more achievable than developing effective conservation strategies that encompass their entire distributions. Such measures have the potential for disproportionate population-level benefits but rely on a detailed understanding of spatiotemporal habitat use. To that end, we examined the residency and small-scale habitat use of 51 whale sharks (