TY - JOUR AU - Kai, Mikihiko AU - Fujinami, Yuki PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/03 TI - Estimation of mean movement rates for blue sharks in the northwestern Pacific Ocean JO - Animal Biotelemetry SP - 35 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The blue shark Prionace glauca is a highly migratory species with a circumglobal distribution. Mean movement rate, defined by the horizontal tracking distance between two data points over the duration of time, is commonly used to understand the horizontal displacement of highly migratory species across a wide range. However, the estimation of mean movement rates for blue sharks has never been conducted using a statistical model. We therefore investigated the mean movement rates using a generalized linear mixed model with data from satellite tags to estimate the range of mean movement rates for 10 blue sharks in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and to reveal the interaction of mean movement rate with several factors. SN - 2050-3385 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-020-00223-x DO - 10.1186/s40317-020-00223-x ID - Kai2020 ER -