Research Papers:
Paper: You are what you eat: Examining the effects of provisioning tourism on shark diets – Kátya G. Abrantes, Juerg M. Brunnschweiler, Adam Barnett
Blog post: You Are What You Eat – Paper!
Multi-year growth progression of a neoplastic lesion on a bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas) – Juerg Brunnschweiler, Charlie Huveneers, Joanna Borucinska
Blogpost – Mrs. Jaws – New Article!
Hand feeding can periodically fuel a major portion of bull shark energy requirements at a provisioning site in Fiji – Juerg Brunnschweiler, Nicholas L Payne, Adam Barnett
Blogpost – Bulking up at Shark Reef – Paper!
Occurrence of juvenile bull sharks (Carcharhinus leucas) in the Navua River in Fiji – Diego Cardeñosa, Kerstin B. J. Glaus and Juerg M. Brunnschweiler
Blog Post – Sharks in Navua – Paper!
Kerstin B. J. Glaus, Irene Adrian-Kalchhauser, Patricia Burkhardt-Holm, William T. White & Juerg M. Brunnschweiler (2015) Characteristics of the shark fisheries of Fiji. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep17556
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László Kocsis , Torsten W. Vennemann, Alex Ulianov, Juerg M. Brunnschweiler (2015) Characterizing the bull shark Carcharhinus leucas habitat in Fiji by the chemical and isotopic compositions of their teeth. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-015-0386-4
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Brunnschweiler J.M., Abrantes K.G., Barnett A. (2014) Long-term changes in species composition and relative abundances of sharks at a provisioning site. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86682
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Brunnschweiler J.M., Barnett A. (2013) Opportunistic visitors: long-term behavioural response of bull sharks to food provisioning in Fiji. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58522
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Brunnschweiler J.M., Baensch H. (2011) Seasonal and long-term changes in relative abundance of bull sharks from a tourist shark feeding site in Fiji. PLoS ONE 6(1): e16597
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Brunnschweiler J.M. (2010) The Shark Reef Marine Reserve: a marine tourism project in Fiji involving local communities. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 18: 29-42
Brunnschweiler J.M., Sazima I. (2010) Swift swimming reef fish as hosts of small juvenile sharksuckers. Coral Reefs 29: 843
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Brunnschweiler J.M., Queiroz N., Sims D.W. (2010) Oceans apart? Short-term movements and behaviour of adult bull sharks Carcharhinus leucas in Atlantic and Pacific Oceans determined from pop-off satellite archival tagging. Journal of Fish Biology: 77: 1343-1358
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Brunnschweiler J.M. (2009) Tracking free-ranging sharks with hand-fed intra-gastric acoustic transmitters. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 42: 201-209
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Brunnschweiler J.M., Sazima I. (2008) A new and unexpected host for the sharksucker (Echeneis naucrates) with a brief review of the echeneid-host interactions. Marine Biodiversity Records 1: e41
Brunnschweiler J.M., Earle J.L. (2006) A contribution to marine life conservation efforts in the South Pacific: The Shark Reef Marine Reserve, Fiji. Cybium 30 (Supplement): 133-139
First record of Carcharhinus leucas from Tonga, South Pacific : Marine Biodiversity Records
2008-01 | journal-article DOI: 10.1017/S1755267207005635
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Using local ecological knowledge to identify shark river habitats in Fiji (South Pacific) : Environmental Conservation
2010-03 | journal-article DOI: 10.1017/S0376892910000317
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