Ecology and Evolution (2023)
Impact of climate change is expected to be especially noticeable at the edges of a species' distribution, where they meet suboptimal habitat conditions. In Mauritania and Iberia, two genetically differentiated…
Finless porpoise bycatch and stranding along the Shandong Peninsula, China, based on public reports from 2000 to 2018
Zuo, Tao; Li, Yongtao; Cheng, Zhaolong; Wang, Jun; Sun, Jianqiang; Yuan, Wei; Niu, Mingxiang
Animals (2023)
The Shandong Peninsula is located on the western coast of the Pacific and is adjacent to the Bohai Sea (BS) and the Yellow Sea (YS) to the east. The East…
Making nets more acoustically visible: Floats as passive mitigation measures to reduce bycatch of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in gillnets
Rosshagen, F.
(2023)
Incidental capture in fishing gear is today affecting at least 112 marine mammal species worldwide and for many smaller toothed whale species (Odontocete), gillnets are considered to be the largest…
Using marine mammal necropsy data in animal health surveillance: The case of the harbor porpoise in the Southern North Sea
IJsseldijk, Lonneke L.; van den Broek, Jan; Kik, Marja J. L.; Leopold, Mardik F.; Bravo Rebolledo, Elisa; Gröne, Andrea; Heesterbeek, Hans
Frontiers in Marine Science (2024)
Rapid changes of marine ecosystems resulting from human activities and climate change, and the subsequent reported rise of infectious diseases in marine mammals, highlight the urgency for timely detection of…