Türk Tarım ve Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi (2018)
This study was carried out to determine stranding levels, dead reasons and some reproduction features and diet of the Black Sea’ cetacean species (harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena and common dolphin,…
Cetacean stranding records along the Danish coastline: Records for the period 2008-2017 and a comparative review
Kinze, C. C.; Thøstesen, C. B.; Olsen, M. T.
Lutra (2018)
For the period 2008-2017, finds of stranded cetaceans along the Danish coastline are listed and reviewed in comparison to the preceding 40-year period (1968-2007). The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) was…
High rates of vessel noise disrupt foraging in wild harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Wisniewska, Danuta Maria; Johnson, Mark; Teilmann, Jonas; Siebert, Ursula; Galatius, Anders; Dietz, Rune; Madsen, Peter Teglberg
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2018)
Shipping is the dominant marine anthropogenic noise source in the world's oceans, yet we know little about vessel encounter rates, exposure levels and behavioural reactions for cetaceans in the wild,…
Crossing boundaries for cetacean conservation: Setting research priorities to guide management of harbour porpoises
IJsseldijk, Lonneke L.; ten Doeschate, Mariel T. I.; Davison, Nicholas J.; Gröne, Andrea; Brownlow, Andrew C.
Marine Policy (2018)
Effective management of natural resources involves a multidisciplinary perspective to address complex issues in data poor-environments. With mobile species that do not conform to human-defined borders a cross-boundary approach is…
Raising your voice: Evolution of narrow-band high-frequency signals in toothed whales (Odontoceti)
Galatius, Anders; Olsen, Morten Tange; Steeman, Mette Elstrup; Racicot, Rachel A.; Bradshaw, Catherine D; Kyhn, Line A.; Miller, Lee A.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2018)
Cetaceans use sound for communication, navigation and finding prey. Most extant odontocetes produce broadband (BB) biosonar clicks covering frequency ranges from tens of kilohertz to 150–170 kHz. In contrast, the…
Distribution and habitat use of a cryptic small cetacean, the Burmeister’s porpoise, monitored from a small-scale fishery platform
Clay, Thomas A.; Mangel, Jeffrey C.; Alfaro-Shigueto, Joanna; Hodgson, David J.; Godley, Brendan J.
Frontiers in Marine Science (2018)
There is widespread evidence that small-scale fisheries (SSF) bycatch threatens many populations of small cetaceans, yet conservation efforts are often limited by a lack of basic knowledge regarding their abundance,…
Does interspecific competition drive patterns of habitat use and relative density in harbour porpoises?
Díaz López, Bruno; Methion, Séverine
Marine Biology (2018)
Determining the drivers that are responsible for the fine-scale distribution of cetacean species is fundamental to understand better how they respond to changes in their environment. We utilized information theoretic…
Feeding behaviour of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Ems estuary
Weel, S. M. H.; Geelhoed, S. C. V.; Tulp, I.; Scheidat, M.
Lutra (2018)
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) was used to study the occurrence and distribution of feeding behaviour of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Ems estuary, on the border between the Netherlands…
Plastic ingestion by harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in the Netherlands: Establishing a standardised method
van Franeker, Jan A.; Bravo Rebolledo, Elisa L.; Hesse, Eileen; IJsseldijk, Lonneke L.; Kühn, Susanne; Leopold, Mardik; Mielke, Lara
Ambio (2018)
Stomach contents of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) collected in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2013 were inspected for the presence of plastic and other man-made litter. In 654 stomach samples…
The metabolic cost of swimming and reproduction in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) as predicted by a bioenergetic model
Gallagher, Cara A.; Stern, S. Jonathan; Hines, Ellen
Marine Mammal Science (2018)
While harbor porpoises currently enter San Francisco Bay year‐round, evidence suggests a disappearance that spanned approximately 65 yr. The range of energetic costs of basal metabolism, locomotion, thermoregulation, and reproduction…