Ocean & Coastal Management (2019)
Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) are protected in the UK by the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981). Understanding the impact of anthropogenic pressures is fundamental for effective protection under this act…
Baseline presence of and effects of tidal turbine installation and operations on harbour porpoise in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, Canada
Tollit, D.; Joy, R.; Wood, J.; Redden, A.; Booth, C.; Boucher, T.; Porskamp, P.; Oldreive, M.
The Journal of Ocean Technology (2019)
Harbour porpoise echolocation activity within and outside of the FORCE tidal turbine demonstration area in Minas Passage of the upper Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, has been monitored by up…
Temporary hearing threshold shift in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) due to one-sixth-octave noise band at 32 kHz
Kastelein, Ronald A.; Helder-Hoek, Lean; Cornelisse, Suzanne; Huijser, Léonie A. E.; Gransier, Robin
Aquatic Mammals (2019)
Temporary hearing threshold shift (TTS) caused by fatiguing sounds in the 1.5 to 16 kHz range has been documented in harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). To assess impacts of anthropogenic noise…
Testicular morphology and spermatogenesis in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Kesselring, T.; Viquerat, S.; IJsseldijk, L. L.; Langeheine, M.; Wohlsein, P.; Gröne, A.; Bergmann, M.; Siebert, U.; Brehm, R.
Theriogenology (2019)
Knowledge about reproductive parameters in male harbour porpoises such as testicular histology and germ cell maturation as well as seasonal changes in spermatogenesis is scarce. Thus, the aim of the…
Comparison of co-deployed drifting passive acoustic monitoring tools at a high flow tidal site: C-PODs and IcListenHF hydrophones
Adams, M.; Sanderson, B.; Porskamp, P.; Redden, A.
The Journal of Ocean Technology (2019)
Porpoise click detectors (C-PODs) and icListenHF hydrophones that record with a high sample rate were deployed on a drifter in fast tidal currents in Minas Passage, Bay of Fundy, on…
Forensic microbiology reveals that Neisseria animaloris infections in harbour porpoises follow traumatic injuries by grey seals
Foster, Geoffrey; Whatmore, Adrian M.; Dagleish, Mark P.; Malnick, Henry; Gilbert, Maarten J.; Begeman, Lineke; Macgregor, Shaheed K.; Davison, Nicholas J.; Roest, Hendrik Jan; Jepson, Paul; Howie, Fiona; Muchowski, Jakub; Brownlow, Andrew C.; Wagenaar, Jaap A.; Kik, Marja J. L.; Deaville, Rob; ten Doeschate, Mariel T. I.; Barley, Jason; Hunter, Laura; IJsseldijk, Lonneke L.
Scientific Reports (2019)
Neisseria animaloris is considered to be a commensal of the canine and feline oral cavities. It is able to cause systemic infections in animals as well as humans, usually after…
Time and tide: Seasonal, diel and tidal rhythms in Wadden Sea harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
Zein, Beate; Woelfing, Benno; Dähne, Michael; Schaffeld, Tobias; Ludwig, Stefan; Rye, Jacob Hansen; Baltzer, Johannes; Ruser, Andreas; Siebert, Ursula
PLOS ONE (2019)
Odontocetes have evolved a rich diversity of prey- and habitat-specific foraging strategies, which allows them to feed opportunistically on locally and temporally abundant prey. While habitat-specific foraging strategies have been…
Juvenile harbor porpoises in the UK are exposed to a more neurotoxic mixture of polychlorinated biphenyls than adults
Williams, Rosie S.; Curnick, David J.; Barber, Jonathan L.; Brownlow, Andrew; Davison, Nicholas J.; Deaville, Rob; Perkins, Matthew; Jobling, Susan; Jepson, Paul D.
Science of The Total Environment (2020)
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of 209 persistent and bio-accumulative toxic pollutants present as complex mixtures in human and animal tissues. Harbor porpoises accumulate some of the highest levels…
Effectiveness of pingers on the harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena relicta Abel, 1905 (Cetacea: Phocoenidae) in Turkey as revealed by shore-based observations
Özsandikçi, Uğur; Gönener, Sedat
Acta Zoologica Bulgarica (2020)
The aim of the present study was to assess the effectiveness of pinger devices on the Black-Sea harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena relicta. The study was carried out in Sinop, Turkey,…
Determination of optimal acoustic passive reflectors to reduce bycatch of odontocetes in gillnets
Kratzer, Isabella M. F.; Schäfer, Ingo; Stoltenberg, Arne; Chladek, Jérôme C.; Kindt-Larsen, Lotte; Larsen, Finn; Stepputtis, Daniel
Frontiers in Marine Science (2020)
The need to minimize bycatch of toothed whales (odontocetes) in gillnets has long been recognized, because they are often top predators and thus essential to ecosystem resilience. It is likely…