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Burmeister's Porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis)
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Harbour Porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
Indo-Pacific Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)
Narrow-Ridged Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis)
Spectacled Porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica)
Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)

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Determination of optimal acoustic passive reflectors to reduce bycatch of odontocetes in gillnets

Kratzer, Isabella M. F.; Schäfer, Ingo; Stoltenberg, Arne; Chladek, Jérôme C.; Kindt-Larsen, Lotte; Larsen, Finn; Stepputtis, Daniel
Frontiers in Marine Science (2020)

The need to minimize bycatch of toothed whales (odontocetes) in gillnets has long been recognized, because they are often top predators and thus essential to ecosystem resilience. It is likely…

Decline towards extinction of Mexico’s vaquita porpoise (Phocoena sinus)

Jaramillo-Legorreta, Armando M.; Cardenas-Hinojosa, Gustavo; Nieto-Garcia, Edwyna; Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo; Thomas, Len; Ver Hoef, Jay M.; Moore, Jeffrey; Taylor, Barbara; Barlow, Jay; Tregenza, Nicholas
Royal Society Open Science (2019)

The vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is a small porpoise endemic to Mexico. It is listed by IUCN as Critically Endangered because of unsustainable levels of bycatch in gillnets. The population has…

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…

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