Against Common Assumptions, the World’s Shark Bite Rates Are Decreasing

The trends of the world’s top ten countries relating to shark bite rates, defined as the ratio of the annual number of shark bites of a country and its resident human population, were analyzed for the period 2000-2016. A nonparametric permutation-based methodology was used to determine whether the s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Erich Ritter, Raid Amin, Kevin Cahn, Jonathan Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Marine Biology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/7184634