The distribution of manta rays in the western North Atlantic Ocean off the eastern United States

被引：11
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作者：
Farmer, Nicholas A. [1 ]
Garrison, Lance P. [2 ]
Horn, Calusa [1 ]
Miller, Margaret [3 ]
Gowan, Timothy [4 ]
Kenney, Robert D. [5 ]
Vukovich, Michelle [6 ]
Willmott, Julia Robinson [6 ]
Pate, Jessica [7 ]
Webb, D. Harry [8 ]
Mullican, Timothy J. [8 ]
Stewart, Joshua D. [9 ,10 ]
Bassos-Hull, Kim [11 ]
Jones, Christian [12 ]
Adams, Delaney [13 ]
Pelletier, Nicole A. [9 ]
Waldron, Jordan [14 ]
Kajiura, Stephen [14 ]
机构：
[1] Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, NOAA, Southeast Reg Off, 263 13th Ave S, St Petersburg, FL 33701 USA
[2] Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, NOAA, Southeast Fisheries Sci Ctr, 75 Virginia Beach Dr, Miami, FL 33149 USA
[3] Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, NOAA, Off Protected Resources, 1315 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
[4] Florida Fish & Wildlife Res Inst, 100 8th Ave SE, St Petersburg, FL 33701 USA
[5] Univ Rhode Isl, Grad Sch Oceanog, Bay Campus Box 40,215 South Ferry Rd, Narragansett, RI 02882 USA
[6] Normandeau Associates Inc, 4581 NW 6th St,Suite H, Gainesville, FL 32609 USA
[7] Marine Megafauna Fdn, 7750 Okeechobee Blvd,Ste 4-3038, W Palm Beach, FL 33411 USA
[8] Georgia Aquarium, 225 Baker St NW, Atlanta, GA 30313 USA
[9] Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Dorchester DT2 0NT, Dorset, England
[10] Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Sci Ctr, La Jolla Shores Dr, La Jolla, CA 92037 USA
[11] Mote Marine Lab, Sharks & Rays Conservat Res Program, 1600 Ken Thompson Pkwy, Sarasota, FL 34236 USA
[12] Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, NOAA, Southeast Fisheries Sci Ctr, 3209 Freder St, Pascagoula, MS 39567 USA
[13] Western Washington Univ, 516 High St, Bellingham, WA 98225 USA
[14] Florida Atlantic Univ, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL 33431 USA
来源：
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS | 2022年 / 12卷 / 01期
基金：
美国海洋和大气管理局;
关键词：
MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; THERMAL PHYSIOLOGY; GENUS MOBULA; BIROSTRIS; GULF; CHONDRICHTHYES; IMPACTS; ECOLOGY; SHELF; IDENTIFICATION;
D O I：
10.1038/s41598-022-10482-8
中图分类号：
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
In 2018, the giant manta ray was listed as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. We integrated decades of sightings and survey effort data from multiple sources in a comprehensive species distribution modeling (SDM) framework to evaluate the distribution of giant manta rays off the eastern United States, including the Gulf of Mexico. Manta rays were most commonly detected at productive nearshore and shelf-edge upwelling zones at surface thermal frontal boundaries within a temperature range of approximately 20-30 degrees C. SDMs predicted highest nearshore occurrence off northeastern Florida during April, with the distribution extending northward along the shelf-edge as temperatures warm, leading to higher occurrences north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina from June to October, and then south of Savannah, Georgia from November to March as temperatures cool. In the Gulf of Mexico, the highest nearshore occurrence was predicted around the Mississippi River delta from April to June and again from October to November. SDM predictions will allow resource managers to more effectively protect manta rays from fisheries bycatch, boat strikes, oil and gas activities, contaminants and pollutants, and other threats.
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