{"id":5471,"date":"2017-04-18T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5471"},"modified":"2017-04-18T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T20:58:35","slug":"size-and-growth-rate-for-sharks-determined-by-their-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/size-and-growth-rate-for-sharks-determined-by-their-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Size and growth rate for sharks determined by their habitat "},"content":{"rendered":"

How\u00a0big a young shark grows up to be, and how fast it grows,\u00a0may depend on where it feeds. Researchers observed a population of juvenile sharks in a nursery that\u00a0contained both a high-risk habitat (open seagrass beds) and a low-risk one (protected mangroves). Sharks that preferred to feed in the mangroves were generally smaller and grew at a slower rate, while bigger sharks chose the exposed seagrass beds to feed on. Authors conclude that this selection of size traits based on feeding habits and predation risk may be critical to adaptation in predator-driven marine ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigel E. Hussey, Joseph D. DiBattista, Jonathan W. Moore, Eric J. Ward, Aaron T. Fisk, Steven Kessel, Tristan L. Guttridge, Kevin A. Feldheim, Bryan R. Franks, Samuel H. Gruber, Ornella C. Weideli, Demian D. Chapman<\/p>\n

Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nigel Hussey, Biological Sciences<\/span>, University of Windsor, Email: nehussey@uwindsor.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Original paper<\/a> published on April 4, 2017 in\u00a0Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How\u00a0big a young shark grows up to be, and how fast it grows,\u00a0may depend on where it feeds. Researchers observed a population of juvenile sharks in a nursery that\u00a0contained both a high-risk habitat (open seagrass beds) and a low-risk one (protected mangroves). Sharks that preferred to feed in the mangroves were generally smaller and grew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2676,2849,1742,2500],"class_list":["post-5471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-habitat-conservation","tag-marine-ecosystems","tag-predation","tag-sharks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5471\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}