Environmental Research Letters (2011)
The rapid increase in development of offshore wind energy in European waters has raised concern for the possible environmental impacts of wind farms. We studied whether harbour porpoise occurrence has…
Organochlorine residues in harbour porpoises from Southwest Greenland
Borrell, Asunción; Aguilar, Alex; Cantos, Gemma; Lockyer, Christina; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter; Jensen, Jette
Environmental Pollution (2004)
During the 1995 hunting season, 75 harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) were sampled in three locations in West Greenland: Maniitsoq, Nuuk, and Paamiut. Sex, age, morphometrics, reproductive condition, and organochlorine compound…
Mixing of porpoise ecotypes in south western UK waters revealed by genetic profiling
Fontaine, Michaël C.; Thatcher, Oliver; Ray, Nicolas; Piry, Sylvain; Brownlow, Andrew; Davison, Nicholas J.; Jepson, Paul; Deaville, Rob; Goodman, Simon J.
(2016)
Contact zones between marine ecotypes are of interest for understanding how key pelagic predators may react to climate change. We analysed the fine scale genetic structure and morphological variation in…
Harbor porpoise observations in Burrows Pass, December 2009 through December 2010
Jeffries, A.
(2011)
Pacific Biodiversity Institute (PBI) initiated a study of the harbor porpoise in the Puget Sound in 2007. One of the early outcomes of this study was to identify an area,…
Unusual mortality events of harbor porpoise strandings in North Carolina, 1997–2009
Hohn, Aleta A.; Rotstein, David S.; Byrd, Barbie L.
Journal of Marine Biology (2013)
A marked increase in the frequency of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) stranded in North Carolina in 2005 was declared as an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). Strandings occurred in January through…
Variation in harbour porpoise activity in response to seismic survey noise
Pirotta, E.; Brookes, K. L.; Graham, I. M.; Thompson, P. M.
Biology Letters (2014)
Animals exposed to anthropogenic disturbance make trade-offs between perceived risk and the cost of leaving disturbed areas. Impact assessments tend to focus on overt behavioural responses leading to displacement, but…
First report of infestation by a parasitic copepod (Pennella balaenopterae) in a harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) from the Aegean Sea: A case report
Danyer, E.; Tonay, A. M.; Aytemiz, I.; Dede, A.; Yildirim, F.; Gurel, A.
Veterinarni Medicina (2014)
An adult, female harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) was found stranded on the southern Aegean Sea coast of Turkey. Thirteen holes made by copepods were observed on the lateral sides…
Habitat preferences and distribution of the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena west of Scotland
Booth, C. G.; Embling, C.; Gordon, J.; Calderan, S. V.; Hammond, P. S.
Marine Ecology Progress Series (2013)
The west coast of Scotland is comprised of complex coastlines and topography, and a range of physical processes influence its coastal marine environment. The region is host to one of…
Using T-PODs to assess variations in the occurrence of coastal bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises
Bailey, Helen; Clay, Gemma; Coates, Elizabeth A.; Lusseau, David; Senior, Bridget; Thompson, Paul M.
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems (2010)
1. Assessments of anthropogenic impacts on cetaceans are often constrained by limited data on the extent to which these species use particular areas. 2. Timing porpoise detectors (T-PODs) are autonomous…
Study of the cranial sinus nematode, Stenurus minor (Metastrongyloidea), in the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena
Faulkner, J.
Master's Thesis - McGill University (1995)
Seventy-eight harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, (33 females, 45 males) were obtained from the summer (June-September) cod fishery incidental-by-catch in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and examined for the presence of…