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SUFB 701: Great White Sharks Disappear From False Bay, But Another Apex Predator Has Moved In
A long term great white shark survey conducted in False Bay, South Africa . has found that there has been a sharp decrease in Great White Sharks in 2017 and 2018. Those two years resulted in zero sightings of the once dominant shark species in the area. So what happens to a marine ecosystem when an apex predator disappears?
Dr. Neil Hammershlag (University of Miami) and Chris Fallows (Apex Shark Expeditions) wrote a paper on the subject that was recently published in Scientific Reports.
The authors found a drastic increase in sightings of seven gill sharks (120 sightings) when Great White…
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