High field metabolic rates of wild harbour porpoises

Rojano-Doñate, Laia; McDonald, Birgitte I.; Wisniewska, Danuta M.; Johnson, Mark; Teilmann, Jonas; Wahlberg, Magnus; Højer-Kristensen, Jakob; Madsen, Peter T.
The Journal of Experimental Biology (2018)

Reliable estimates of field metabolic rates (FMRs) in wild animals are essential for quantifying their ecological roles, as well as for evaluating fitness consequences of anthropogenic disturbances. Yet, standard methods…


Accumulation of hydroxylated polychlorinated biphenyls (OH-PCBs) and implications for PCBs metabolic capacities in three porpoise species

Ochiai, Mari; Nomiyama, Kei; Isobe, Tomohiko; Mizukawa, Hazuki; Yamada, Tadasu K.; Tajima, Yuko; Matsuishi, Takashi; Amano, Masao; Tanabe, Shinsuke
Chemosphere (2013)

The present study investigated polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hydroxylated metabolites of PCBs (OH-PCBs) in blood from three porpoise species: finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides), harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena), and Dall’s porpoises…