Alistair D.M. Dove, Simon J. Pierce
2022 Whale Sharks Biology, Ecology, and Conservation
CRC Press ISBN: 978-1-03-204940-3 Christoph A. Rohner, Jesse E. M. Cochran, E. Fernando Cagua, Clare E. M. Prebble, Stephanie K. Venables, Michael L. Berumen, Baraka L. Kuguru, Jason Rubens, Juerg M. Brunnschweiler and Simon J. Pierce
2020 No Place Like Home? High Residency and Predictable Seasonal Movement of Whale Sharks Off Tanzania
Frontiers in Marine Science Vol. 7, 442 DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00423 Queiroz, N., Humphries, N.E., Couto, A. et al.
2019 Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries.
Nature 572, 461–466 (2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1444-4 Gonzalo Araujo, Christoph A. Rohner, Jessica Labaja, Segundo J. Conales, Sally J. Snow, Ryan Murray, Simon J. Pierce and Alessandro Ponzo
2018 Satellite tracking of juvenile whale sharks in the Sulu and Bohol Seas, Philippines
PeerJ DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5231 Christoph A. Rohner, Anthony J. Richardson, Fabrice R. A. Jaine, Michael B. Bennett, Scarla J. Weeks, Geremy Cliff, David P. Robinson, Katie E. Reeve-Arnold and Simon J. Pierce
2018 Satellite tagging highlights the importance of productive Mozambican coastal waters to the ecology and conservation of whale sharks
PeerJ 6:e4161 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4161 David P. Robinson , Mohammed Y. Jaidah, Steffen S. Bach, Christoph A. Rohner, Rima W. Jabado, Rupert Ormond, Simon J. Pierce
2017 Some like it hot: Repeat migration and residency of whale sharks within an extreme natural environment
PLoS ONE 12(9): e0185360 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185360 Mark Meekan, Christopher M. Austin, Mun H. Tan, Nu-Wei V. Wei, Adam Miller, Simon J. Pierce, David Rowat, Guy Stevens, Tim K. Davies, Alessandro Ponzo and Han Ming Gan
2017 iDNA at Sea: Recovery of Whale Shark (
Rhincodon typus) Mitochondrial DNA Sequences from the Whale Shark Copepod (
Pandarus rhincodonicus) Confirms Global Population Structure
Frontiers in Marine Science Vol. 4, Article 420 DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00420 Dení Ramírez-Macías, Nuno Queiroz, Simon J. Pierce, Nicolas E. Humphries, David W. Sims and Juerg M. Brunnschweiler
2017 Oceanic adults, coastal juveniles: tracking the habitat use of whale sharks off the Pacific coast of Mexico.
PeerJ 5:e3271 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3271 McKinney JA, Hoffmayer ER, Holmberg J, Graham RT, Driggers WB III, de la Parra-Venegas R, Galván-Pastoriza BE, Fox S, Pierce SJ, Dove ADM
2017 Long-term assessment of whale shark population demography and connectivity using photo-identification in the Western Atlantic Ocean.
PLoS ONE 12(8): e0180495 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180495 Christoph A. Rohner, Anthony J. Richardson, Clare E.M. Prebble, Andrea D. Marshall, Michael B. Bennett, Scarla J.Weeks, Geremy Cliff, Sabine P.Wintner and Simon J. Pierce
2015 Laser photogrammetry improves size and demographic estimates for whale sharks.
PeerJ 3:e886 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.886 Cagua EF, Cochran JEM, Rohner CA, Prebble CEM, Sinclair-Taylor TH, Pierce SJ, Berumen ML.
2015 Acoustic telemetry reveals cryptic residency of whale sharks.
Biol. Lett. 11: 20150092. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2015.0092 Thomas M. Vignaud, Jeffrey A. Maynard, Raphael Leblois, Mark G. Meekan, Ricardo Vázquez-Juárez, Dení Ramírez-Macías, Simon J. Pierce, David Rowat, Michael L. Berumen, Champak Beeravolu, Sandra Baksay and Serge Planes
2014 Genetic structure of populations of whale sharks among ocean basins and evidence for their historic rise and recent decline
Molecular Ecology (2014) 23, 2590-2601 DOI: 10.1111/mec.12754 Christoph A. Rohner, Lydie I. E. Couturier, Anthony J. Richardson, Simon J. Pierce, Clare E. M. Prebble, Mark J. Gibbons, Peter D. Nichols
2013 Diet of whale sharks
Rhincodon typus inferred from stomach content and signature fatty acid analyses
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES Vol. 493: 219-235, 2013 DOI: 10.3354/meps10500 S. Fox, I. Foisy, R. De La Parra Venegas, B. E. Galvan Pastoriza, R. T. Graham, E. R. Hoffmayer, J. Holmberg and S. J. Pierce
2013 Population structure and residency of whale sharks
Rhincodon typus at Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras
Journal of Fish Biology DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12195 C. A. Rohner, S. J. Pierce, A. D. Marshall, S. J. Weeks, M. B. Bennett, A. J. Richardson
2013 Trends in sightings and environmental influences on a coastal aggregation of manta rays and whale sharks
MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES Vol. 482: 153-168, 2013 DOI: 10.3354/meps10290 David P. Robinson, Mohammed Y. Jaidah, Rima W. Jabado, Katie Lee-Brooks, Nehad M. Nour El-Din, Ameena A. Al Malki, Khaled Elmeer, Paul A. McCormick, Aaron C. Henderson, Simon J. Pierce, Rupert F. G. Ormond
2013 Whale Sharks,
Rhincodon typus,Aggregate around Offshore Platforms in Qatari Waters of the Arabian Gulf to Feed on Fish Spawn
PLOS ONE (www.plosone.org) March 2013, Vol 8, Issue 3 | e58255 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058255 Juerg M. Brunnschweiler and David W. Sims
2011 Diel Oscillations in Whale Shark Vertical Movements Associated with Meso- and Bathypelagic Diving
American Fisheries Society Symposium 76, 2011 N. E. Humphries, N. Queiroz, J. R. M. Dyer, N. G. Pade, M. K. Musyl, K. M. Schaefer, D. W. Fuller, J. M. Brunnschweiler, T. K. Doyle, J. D. R. Houghton, G. C. Hays, C. S. Jones, L. R. Noble, V. J. Wearmouth, E. J. Southall & D. W. Sims
2010 Environmental context explains Lévy and Brownian movement patterns of marine predators
Nature DOI: 10.1038/nature09116 Brunnschweiler J.M., Baensch H., Pierce S.J., Sims D.W.
2009 Deep-diving behaviour of a whale shark
Rhincodon typus during long-distance movement in the western Indian Ocean
Journal of Fish Biology 74: 706-714 
