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Research Papers

SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PAPERS

2025 Evidence of cascading ecosystem effects following the loss of white sharks from False Bay, South Africa

2022 Sharks as exfoliators: Widespread chafing between marine organisms suggest an unexplored ecological role

2022 Loss of an apex predator in the wild induces physiological and behavioural changes in prey

2021 Successful parks for sharks: No-take marine reserve provides conservation benefits to endemic and threatened sharks off South Africa

2019 Disappearance of White Sharks Leads to the Novel Emergence of an Allopatric Apex Predator, the Sevengill Shark

2018 Patterns of long-term climate variability and predation rates by a marine apex predator, the white shark Carcharodon carcharias

2017 Physiological stress responses to natural variation in predation risk: evidence from white sharks and seals

2016 Effects of lunar phase on predator-prey interactions between white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) and Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus)

2015 Intraguild predation and partial consumption of blue sharks Prionace glauca by Cape fur seals Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus

2013 White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) scavenging on whales and the role this has in further shaping the ecology of an apex predator

2012 Global perspectives on the biology and life history of the White Shark

1997 – 2010 Global perspectives on the biology and life history of the White Shark

2009 Marine predator – prey contests: Ambush and speed versus vigilance and agility

2009 Hunting patterns and geographic profiling of White Shark predation

2006 Effects of environmental conditions on predator – prey interactions between White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) and Cape Fur Seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) at Seal Island, South Africa

2005 Predatory behaviour of White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) at Seal Island, South Africa

1997 – 2010 Investigatory Behaviour toward Surface Objects and Non Consumptive Strikes on Seabirds by Great Whites, Carcharodan Carcharias at Seal Island, South Africa

2003 Natural mortality of Puffadder Shy Sharks due to Cape Fur Seals and Black-backed Kelp Gulls at Seal Island

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