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. 2014 Apr 12;4(10):1768–1786. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1053

Table 2.

Depth and temperature parameters for nine tiger sharks tagged in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and Bermuda (BMD), categorized by behavioral type (see Results section for description of behavioral types). Values are median (1st quartile–3rd quartile)/maximum depth or minimum temperature. An * after daytime medians indicates a significant difference between daytime and nighttime distributions subsampled to account for autocorrelation (two-sample Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, P < 0.05)

Shark number Dates tracked Depth (m) Temperature (°C)


Daytime Nighttime Daytime Nighttime
Surface-oriented
 1 (USVI) 21 March to 16 April 2008 2.7* (0.0–21.5)/418.3 26.9 (0.0–57.8)/442.5 26.0* (25.1–26.6)/12.4 25.8 (23.1–26.4)/10.7
 5 (USVI) 4 June to 13 June 2008 1.3* (1.3–9.4)/166.8 41.7 (1.3–100.9)/450.5 28.2* (27.8–28.4)/21.5 26.9 (27.8–28.4)/16.2
Bimodal-shallow
 2 (USVI) 22 March to 23 April 2008 26.9 (10.8–32.3)/166.8 26.9 (5.4–43.0)/263.6 26.0 (25.8–26.2)/20.5 26.0 (25.8–26.2)/20.4
 3 (USVI) 23 March to 28 August 2008 32.3* (10.8–43.0)/317.4 32.3 (21.5–37.7)/392.7 27.1 (26.2–28.2)/17.2 27.1 (26.2–28.2)/16.0
 7 (USVI) 5 June to 2 July 2008 37.7* (16.1–45.7)/406.2 25.6 (1.3–39.0)/426.3 27.3* (26.4–28.0)/16.2 28.2 (27.3–28.4)/16.0
 8 (USVI) 6 June to 22 June 2008 29.6* (18.8–36.3)/406.2 22.9 (2.0–37.7)/555.4 28.0 (27.3–28.4)/14.9 28.2 (27.3–28.6)/12.6
 14 (BMD) 3 October to 19 November 2009 38.3* (8.1–53.1)/601.2 43.0 (17.5–59.8)/291.8 26.4* (25.8–26.9)/14.8 26.0 (25.0–26.7)/14.8
Other
 4 (USVI) 3 June to 29 June 2008 63.2* (20.2–234.0)/613.3 33.6 (5.4–67.2)/718.2 26.2* (19.7–27.8)/11.0 27.5 (26.2–28.2)/8.9
 13 (BMD) 5 August 2009 to 5 February 2010 32.3* (0.0–69.9)/828.4 43.0 (5.4–75.3)/726.2 24.8* (23.7–26.2)/12.0 24.8 (23.7–26.0)/10.3