Veterinary Research (2019)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the North Sea live in an environment heavily impacted by humans, the consequences of which are a concern for their health. Autopsies carried out on…
Quantifying harbour porpoise foraging behaviour in CPOD data: Identification, automatic detection and potential application
Berges, B. J. P.; Geelhoed, S. C. V.; Scheidat, M.; Tougaard, J.
Wageningen Marine Research Reports (2019)
Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are regularly monitored to assess how they are impacted by the construction and operation of offshore wind farms. A suitable method to do this is passive…
The evolution of genital shape variation in female cetaceans
Orbach, Dara N.; Hedrick, Brandon; Würsig, Bernd; Mesnick, Sarah L.; Brennan, Patricia L. R.
Evolution (2017)
Male genital diversification is likely the result of sexual selection. Female genital diversification may also result from sexual selection, although it is less well studied and understood. Female genitalia are…
Predicting harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) activity in the Eastern Scheldt
Gansen, C.; Hoeneveld, J.-L.; Poot, J.
(2018)
The harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is a small ceteacean species and is common in Dutch coastal waters. The Eastern Scheldt, an estuary in the Dutch province of Zeeland, housed a…
Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) reaction to a 3D seismic airgun survey in the North Sea
Sarnocińska, Joanna; Teilmann, Jonas; Balle, Jeppe Dalgaard; van Beest, Floris M.; Delefosse, Matthieu; Tougaard, Jakob
Frontiers in Marine Science (2020)
The most common cetacean in the North Sea is the harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena). Underwater noise is increasingly recognized as a source of impact on the marine environment and seismic…
Megatestes: Anatomical evidence for sperm competition in the harbor porpoise
Fontaine, P. M.; Barrette, C.
Mammalia (1997)
We collected testes from 62 male harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) incidentally caught in gillnets of commercial fisheries in the Gulf of St-Lawrence, in June-July- August. In adults (≥4 years), both…
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…
Records of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the mouth of the Douro River (northern Portugal) with presence of an anomalous white individual
Gil, Ágatha; Correia, Ana M.; Sousa-Pinto, Isabel
Marine Biodiversity Records (2019)
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is listed under the Annex II of the European Habitats Directive (Directive 92/43/CEE) and Member States are required to designate special areas of conservation to protect…
Linear transect surveys of abundance and density of cetaceans in the area near the Dzharylgach Island in the north-western Black Sea
Gladilina, E. V.; Vishnyakova, K. A.; Neprokin, O. O.; Ivanchikova, Yu. F.; Derkacheva, T. A.; Kryukova, A. A.; Savenko, O. V.; Gol’din, P. E.
Vestnik Zoologii (2017)
The first assessment of cetacean density and abundance by linear transect survey was conducted in 2016 and 2017 in the shallowest coastal area of the Ukrainian sector of the north-western…
Guide to the whales, porpoises and dolphins (Order Cetacea) exhibited in the Department of Zoology, British Museum (Natural History)
Harmer, S. F.
(1909)
Porpoise. The Porpoise [Phocaena communis, or P. phocaena) is the smallest and most common of the Cetaceans found in the seas around the British Isles, and it also frequents the…