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Author Simpfendorfer, Colin A.
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Publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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Widespread Diversity Deficits of Coral Reef Sharks and Rays

Biodiversity Conservation

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Heithaus, Michael R.

Heupel, Michelle R.

Simpfendorfer, Colin A.

et al

A global survey if coral reefs reveals that over fishing is driving resident shark species toward extinction, causing diversity deficits in reef elasmobranch ( shark and ray) assemblages. Our species-level analysis analysis revealed global declines of 60 to 73% for five common resident reef shark species and that individual shark species were not detetced at 34 to 47% of surveyed reefs.

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