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| Lagabrielle, Erwann; Allibert, Agathe; Kiszka, Jeremy J.; Loiseau, Nicolas; Kilfoil, James P.; Lemahieu, Anne. |
| Understanding the environmental drivers of interactions between predators and humans is critical for public safety and management purposes. In the marine environment, this issue is exemplified by shark-human interactions. The annual shark bite incidence rate (SBIR) in La Réunion (Indian Ocean) is among the highest in the world (up to 1 event per 24,000 hours of surfing) and has experienced a 23-fold increase over the 2005–2016 period. Since 1988, 86% of shark bite events on ocean-users involved surfers off the leeward coast, where 96% of surfing activities took place. We modeled the SBIR as a function of environmental variables, including benthic substrate, sea temperature and period of day. The SBIR peaked in winter, during the afternoon and dramatically... |
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| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00429/54011/55227.pdf |
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