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Determinants of Spending of Whale Shark Tour Participants by Jones, Tod, Wood, David, Catlin, James, Norman, B.

“…Whale shark tourism is an icon industry in Western Australia. …”
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Expenditure and Ecotourism: Predictors of Expenditure for Whale Shark Tour Participants by Jones, Tod, Wood, David, Catlin, James, Norman, B.

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Discovering wildlife tourism: a whale shark tourism case study by Catlin, James, Jones, Roy, Jones, Tod, Norman, B., Wood, David

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Seasonal aggregation of juvenile whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) at Christmas Island, Indian Ocean by Hobbs, Jean-Paul, Frisch, A., Hamanaka, T., McDonald, C., Gilligan, J., Neilson, J.

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Whale shark tourism at Ningaloo Marine Park: A longitudinal study of wildlife tourism by Jones, Roy, Catlin, James

“…In comparison with the past, whale shark tourism at Ningaloo now attracts more generalist tourists who place different preferences on the whale shark tourism experience. …”
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Development and change in the whale shark tourism industry at Ningaloo Marine Park, Western Australia by Catlin, James

“…Originally specialist wildlife and nature based tourists exclusively focused on the opportunity to swim with whale sharks partook in the tours. Now a much wider cross section, sourced from the general tourist population in the region, wish to swim with the whale sharks. …”
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Consolidation in a wildlife tourism industry: the changing impact of whale shark tourist expenditure in the Ningaloo Coast region by Catlin, James, Jones, Tod, Norman, B., Wood, David

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Ecocean: conservation through technological innovation by Hughes, Michael

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Balancing commercial and environmental needs: licensing as a means of managing whale shark tourism on Ningaloo reef by Catlin, James, Jones, Tod, Jones, Roy

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Ningaloo collaboration cluster: Socio-economics of tourism by Jones, Tod, Wood, David, Hughes, Michael, Deery, M., Fredline, L., Jones, Roy, Fulton, B., Tien, P., Pambudi, D., Dwyer, L., Spurr, R., Chapman, K., Lewis, Anna, Chandler, P., Catlin, James

“…Doctoral research has added value to the project through the detailed analysis of four significant features of tourism to the Ningaloo Coast: research uptake, coastal camping, repeat visitation, and whale shark tourism.…”
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Animals living in polluted environments are a potential source of anti-tumour 2 molecule(s) by Jeyamogan, Shareni, Khan, Naveed Ahmed *, Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah Bano *

“…The discovery of antitumor activity in animals such as crocodiles, whales, sharks, etc will stimulate research in finding therapeutic molecules from unusual sources, and has potential for the development of novel antitumor compound(s) that may also overcome current drug resistance. …”
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The rise and fall of the “marine heat wave” off Western Australia during the summer of 2010/2011 by Pearce, Alan, Feng, M.

“…Hourly temperature measurements at a number of mooring sites along the coast revealed that the temperature anomalies were mostly trapped in the surface mixed layer, with peak near shore temperatures rising to ~5 °C above average in the central west coastal region over a week encompassing the end of February and early March, resulting in some devastating fish kills as well as temporary southward range extensions of tropical fish species and megafauna such as whale sharks and manta rays. The elevated temperatures were a result of a combination of a record strength Leeuwin Current, a near-record La Niña event, and anomalously high air–sea heat flux into the ocean even though the SST was high. …”
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