Fig. 1

The study area for the satellite tagged whale sharks (A) and the area of interest (red rectangle/box) at Point Cloates (B), with coloured lines showing the interpolated horizontal movement trajectories of individual whale sharks, squares showing tag deployment locations and triangles showing Fastloc GPS locations. The in-situ physical sampling locations across the study area (C), and the area of interest (red rectangle/box) at Point Cloates (D) showing the acoustic transects (black line), CTD stations (orange triangles) and zooplankton net trawls (yellow squares). C also shows an overview map of the study area (red rectangle/box) in relation to Western Australia. The dashed grey line indicates the reef edge present at the 50 m bathymetry contour