PLOS ONE (2015)
Airguns used in seismic surveys are among the most prevalent and powerful anthropogenic noise sources in marine habitats. They are designed to produce most energy below 100 Hz, but the…
The source parameters of echolocation clicks from captive and free-ranging Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)
Fang, Liang; Wang, Ding; Li, Yongtao; Cheng, Zhaolong; Pine, Matthew K.; Wang, Kexiong; Li, Songhai
PLOS ONE (2015)
The clicks of Yangtze finless porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) from 7 individuals in the tank of Baiji aquarium, 2 individuals in a netted pen at Shishou Tian-e-zhou Reserve and 4…
Report on vaquita rate of change between 2011-2014 using passive acoustic data by the expert panel on spatial models
Jaramillo-Legorreta, Armando; Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo; VerHoef, Jay; Moore, Jeff; Thomas, Len; Barlow, Jay; Gerrodette, Tim; Taylor, Barbara
Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (2015)
The Expert Panel on Vaquita Acoustic Monitoring had its second meeting on April 28, 2015 to analyze the first four seasons (2011-2014) of the acoustic monitoring program. Results indicate an…
Differences in skull size of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena (Cetacea), in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea: evidence for different morphotypes and populations
Goldin, P. E.; Vishnyakova, K. A.
Vestnik Zoologii (2015)
There are two porpoise stocks in the northern Black Sea: the north-western (Odessa Gulf) and northeastern (Crimean and Caucasian waters); in addition, another stock is in the Sea of Azov.…
Porpoises: From predators to prey
Leopold, Mardik F.; Begeman, Lineke; Heße, Eileen; van der Hiele, Jaap; Hiemstra, Sjoukje; Keijl, Guido; Meesters, Erik H.; Mielke, Lara; Verheyen, Dorien; Gröne, Andrea
Journal of Sea Research (2015)
Along the Dutch shores hundreds of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena are stranded each year. A recurrent phenomenon in the Netherlands is a surge of strandings in late winter and early…
Predation of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) by grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) in Wales
Stringell, Thomas; Hill, Dave; Rees, Dafydd; Rees, Ffion; Rees, Padrig; Morgan, Greg
Aquatic Mammals (2015)
(...)Grey seals are generalist feeders, taking a wide variety of fish, mollusc, echinoderm, crustacean, and cephalopod prey (Bowen & Harrison, 1994; Hammond et al., 1994; Strong, 1996; Brown et al.,…
Some progress made on conservation of the Yangtze finless porpoise since 2014
Wang, Ding; Mei, Zhigang; Wang, Kexiong; Hao, Yujiang; Zheng, Jingsong; Zhang, Xinqiao; Lei, Gang; Zhu, Jiang; Leslie, Aimée
Scientific Committee Meeting Documents (2015)
(...) 1. The central government paid more attention to the conservation of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise 2. China’s Ministry of Agriculture implements first class protection of Yangtze’s finless porpoise 3.…
De novo assembly and characterization of narrow-ridged finless porpoise renal transcriptome and identification of candidate genes involved in osmoregulation
Ruan, Rui; Guo, Ai-Huan; Hao, Yu-Jiang; Zheng, Jin-Song; Wang, Ding
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (2015)
During the evolutionary transition from land to water, cetaceans have undergone numerous critical challenges, with osmoregulation being the major one. Two subspecies of the narrow-ridged finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis), the…
Mitochondrial genome of the Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis (Phocaenidae: Neophocaena)
Liu, Xinyang; Chen, Ran; Li, Gang; Li, Jinhua
Mitochondrial DNA (2015)
Yangtze finless porpoise, Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis, is a cetacea animal which has been reclassified as a Critically Endangered species by IUCN in 2013. In this study, we determined the complete…
Bigg’s (transient) killer whale predation on Dall’s porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) and harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena)
McInnes, Josh D.; Cullen, Kelsey D.; Browne, Lynette M.; Dehalt, Annette; Templeman, Nick M.
Technical Report for the Royal British Columbia Museum (2015)
(...) Two separate predation events were documented off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia between the years 2013-2014. Both predation events occurred on small cetaceans from the Phocoenidae family:…