Reposted by Ítalo Fernández
Exploring 8 nursing sites of red-spotted catsharks in and amongst Chile's kelp forests, Ítalo Fernández found that females showed a greater preference for anchoring eggs to kelp with larger holdfasts, more stipes and greater total length.
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Because size matters: what we have learned about shark nesting sites
My biggest concern in this project is to understand how changes in the size structure of kelp forests could affect the use of kelp as a nesting substrate for elasmobranch species in Chile. Therefore, ...