Population and distribution characteristics of Yangtze finless porpoise in Jiangxi waters during dry season

Que, Jiang-Long; Rao, Rong-Cheng; Yang, Ying; Min, Jia-Ling; Tian, Zhen; Yu, Zhi-Jie; Yu, Jin-Xiang; Dai, Yin-Gen; Mei, Zhi-Gang
Acta Hydrobiologica Sinica (2019)

Jiangxi Province is one of the most important distribution of Yangtze finless porpoise (YFP). Since the scientific investigation of Yangtze finless porpoise in the whole Yangtze River basin in 2017,…

Baseline presence of and effects of tidal turbine installation and operations on harbour porpoise in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, Canada

Tollit, D.; Joy, R.; Wood, J.; Redden, A.; Booth, C.; Boucher, T.; Porskamp, P.; Oldreive, M.
The Journal of Ocean Technology (2019)

Harbour porpoise echolocation activity within and outside of the FORCE tidal turbine demonstration area in Minas Passage of the upper Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, has been monitored by up…

Characterization of a novel rhabdovirus isolated from a stranded harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)

Emelianchik, Alexandra; Rodrigues, Thaís C. S.; Subramaniam, Kuttichantran; Nielsen, Ole; Burek-Huntington, Kathy A.; Rotstein, David; Popov, Vsevolod L.; Stone, David; Waltzek, Thomas B.
Virus Research (2019)

An adult male harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) stranded off the coast of Alaska displaying poor body condition, scattered mild ulcerative dermatitis, and necrotizing balanoposthitis. Necropsy findings included severe verminous panniculitis,…

Modeling of the near to far acoustic fields of an echolocating bottlenose dolphin and harbor porpoise

Wei, Chong; Au, Whitlow W. L.; Ketten, Darlene R.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2020)

Echolocation signals emitted by odontocetes can be roughly classified into three broad categories: broadband echolocation signals, narrowband high-frequency echolocation signals, and frequency modulated clicks. Previous measurements of broadband echolocation signal…

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…

Immune responses of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ssp. asiaeorientalis) to escalating anthropogenic stressors in the wild and seminatural environments

Nabi, Ghulam; Li, Ying; McLaughlin, Richard W.; Mei, Zhigang; Wang, Kexiong; Hao, Yujiang; Zheng, Jinsong; Wang, Ding
Frontiers in Physiology (2020)

Increasing anthropogenic stressors are potential threats to biodiversity conservation and management of Yangtze finless porpoises (YFPs). The objective of this study was to indirectly compare the habitat quality of a…

After the bite: Bacterial transmission from grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) to harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

Gilbert, Maarten J.; IJsseldijk, Lonneke L.; Rubio-García, Ana; Gröne, Andrea; Duim, Birgitta; Rossen, John; Zomer, Aldert L.; Wagenaar, Jaap A.
Royal Society Open Science (2020)

Recent population growth of the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) and common seal (Phoca vitulina) in the North Sea has increased potential interaction between these species. Grey…

Underwater noise pollution in China’s Yangtze River critically endangers Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)

Wang, Zhi-Tao; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Duan, Peng-Xiang; Zhou, Lu; Yuan, Jing; Li, Jiao; Lei, Pei-Yu; Chen, Yu-Wei; Yang, Yi-Ning; Wang, Ke-Xiong; Wang, Ding
Environmental Pollution (2020)

Underwater sound plays an important role in some critical life functions of many aquatic animals. Underwater noise pollution has received relatively more attention in ocean systems. However, little attention has…