Marine Biology (2017)
Populations of bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise inhabit Cardigan Bay, which was designated a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), with bottlenose dolphin listed as a primary feature for its conservation…
Resilience of harbor porpoises to anthropogenic disturbance: Must they really feed continuously?
Hoekendijk, Jeroen P. A.; Spitz, Jerome; Read, Andrew J.; Leopold, Mardik F.; Fontaine, Michael C.
Marine Mammal Science (2017)
...Recently, Wisniewska et al. (2016) used high-resolution digital acoustic tags (DTAGs) to monitor the foraging behavior of five harbor porpoises in Danish waters. This approach provided detailed observations on the…
Testing two types of acoustic deterrent devices (pingers) to reduce harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (Cetacea: Phocoenidae), by catch in turbot (Psetta maxima) set gillnet fishery in the Black Sea, Turkey
Bilgin, S.; Köse, Ö.
Cahiers de Biologie Marine (2018)
Field experiments with Aquamark 100 and Aquamark 200 pingers were conducted in the bottom set gill net fishery for turbot in the Black Sea coast between March and June 2012.…
Abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) on the Dutch continental shelf, aerial surveys 2012-2017
Geelhoed, S. C. V.; Scheidat, M.
Lutra (2018)
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is the most abundant marine mammal species in Dutch waters. Aerial surveys along predesigned track lines in 2012-2017 provided density and abundance estimates for the…
Spatial avoidance to experimental increase of intermittent and continuous sound in two captive harbour porpoises
Kok, Annebelle C. M.; Engelberts, J. Pamela; Kastelein, Ronald A.; Helder-Hoek, Lean; Van de Voorde, Shirley; Visser, Fleur; Slabbekoorn, Hans
Environmental Pollution (2018)
The continuing rise in underwater sound levels in the oceans leads to disturbance of marine life. It is thought that one of the main impacts of sound exposure is the…
Strandings of cetaceans in Belgium from 1995 to 2017
Haelters, J.; Kerckhof, F.; Jauniaux, T.
Lutra (2018)
It is a tradition that regular overviews are published of strandings of cetaceans. The last overviews for Belgium covered the period 1975 to 1989 and 1990 to 1994. This overview…
The possible effects of high vessel traffic on the physiological parameters of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis ssp. asiaeorientalis)
Nabi, Ghulam; Hao, Yujiang; McLaughlin, Richard William; Wang, Ding
Frontiers in Physiology (2018)
Poyang is the largest freshwater lake in China, where the acoustic environment and space for the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoises (YFPs) has been altered by heavy vessel traffic and…
Environmental drivers of harbour porpoise fine-scale movements
van Beest, Floris M.; Teilmann, Jonas; Dietz, Rune; Galatius, Anders; Mikkelsen, Lonnie; Stalder, Dominique; Sveegaard, Signe; Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob
Marine Biology (2018)
Quantifying intraspecific variation in movement behaviour of marine predators and the underlying environmental drivers is important to inform conservation management of protected species. Here, we provide the first empirical data…
Noise affects porpoise click detections – the magnitude of the effect depends on logger type and detection filter settings
Clausen, Karin Tubbert; Tougaard, Jakob; Carstensen, Jacob; Delefosse, Matthieu; Teilmann, Jonas
Bioacoustics (2018)
Automatic click detectors and full-bandwidth sound recorders are widely used in passive acoustic monitoring of small cetaceans. Detection of these signals depends on a variety of factors, including signal to…
About stranding and accidentally caught cetaceans in the Black Sea: Death reasons, feeding characteristics and pregnancy status
Bilgin, Sabri; Onay, Hatice; Köse, Ozay; Yeşilçiçek, Tuncay
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,…