RIEL seminar series
Informing conservation planning for threatened river sharks
| Presenter | Julia Constance | |
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Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods
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| Location | Yellow 1, Level 2, Room 48 at CDU Casuarina Campus, and online via Zoom (see below for Zoom link). All times are ACST. | |
| Open to | All International audience, CDU staff and students, Public | |
Julia Constance is a PhD candidate at Charles Darwin University’s Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL).
The Northern Territory's river sharks—the Northern River Shark (Glyphis garricki) and the Speartooth Shark (G. glyphis)—are rare and threatened species of global conservation concern. Both species require information on distribution, life history, and movement ecology.
The seminar ‘Informing conservation planning for threatened river sharks’ will summarise the results of Julia's PhD thesis, exploring gaps in euryhaline elasmobranch (sharks and rays) science, a range extension for the Speartooth Shark, novel estimates of natural mortality utilising acoustic telemetry, and movements and their drivers of sharks in riverine environments. This research highlights a limited capacity by river sharks to sustain additional threats driven by humans, and can be utilised to inform management.
Julia has broad research interests in shark and ray conservation, and has researched some of the world's rarest species. Her PhD research examines the biology and ecology of river sharks (Glyphis spp.) in the NT.
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