Predicting potential future reduction in shark bites on people.

Corey J A Bradshaw, Phoebe Meagher, Madeline J Thiele, Robert G Harcourt, Charlie Huveneers

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

SMART Drumlines Ineffective in Catching White Sharks in the High Energy Capes Region of Western Australia: Acoustic Detections Confirm That Sharks Are Not Always Amenable to Capture.Biology · 2022
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The Australian Shark-Incident Database for quantifying temporal and spatial patterns of shark-human conflict.Scientific data · 2022
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Corey J A BradshawGlobal Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5328-7741

Phoebe MeagherTaronga Conservation Society Australia, Taronga Zoo, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Madeline J ThieleGlobal Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia.

Robert G HarcourtDepartment of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4666-2934

Charlie HuveneersSouthern Shark Ecology Group, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8937-1358

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the low chance of a person being bitten by a shark, there are serious associated costs. Electronic deterrents are currently the only types of personal deterrent with empirical evidence of a substantial reduction in the probability of being bitten by a shark. We aimed to predict the number of people who could potentially avoid being bitten by sharks in Australia if they wear personal electronic deterrents. We used the Australian Shark Attack File from 1900 to 2020 to develop sinusoidal time-series models of

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bull sharkshark attackshark–human interactionstiger sharkwhite shark

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PMID34035935

DOI10.1098/rsos.201197

PMCPMC8101541

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