Marine Ecology Progress Series (2012)
The distribution of marine predators is tightly coupled with that of their prey, and may also be affected by interactions between competing predators. In order to adopt an ecosystem approach…
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,…
Unique feeding morphology in a new Prognathous extinct porpoise from the Pliocene of California
Racicot, Rachel A.; Deméré, Thomas A.; Beatty, Brian L.; Boessenecker, Robert W.
Current Biology (2014)
Modern porpoises (Odontoceti: Phocoenidae) are some of the smallest cetaceans and usually feed near the seafloor on small fish and cephalopods [1, 2 and 3]. Within both extinct and extant…
Round table: Practical problems
Norris, K. S.; Dudok van Heel, W. H.; Ray, C.; Wood, F. G. Jr.
Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises [Proceedings] (1966)
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Hong Kong’s Cetaceans: The biology, socioecology and behaviour of Sousa chinensis and Neophocaena phocaenoides
Parsons, E. C. M.
Doctoral Thesis - University of Hong Kong (1997)
From an intensive review of historical records and the examination of stranded cetaceans it was determined that 16 cetacean species have been reported from Hong Kong, including resident populations of…
The diel rhythms of biosonar behavior in the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) in the port of the Yangtze River: The correlation between prey availability and boat traffic
Wang, Zhitao; Akamatsu, Tomonari; Wang, Kexiong; Wang, Ding
PLoS ONE (2014)
Information on the habitat use of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is critical for its conservation. The diel biosonar behavior of the porpoise in the port…
A note on cephalopods from the stomachs of Dall’s porpoises (Phocoenoides dalli) from the Northwestern Pacific and Bering Sea, 1978-1982
Fiscus, C. H.; Jones, L. L.
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management (1999)
Cephalopod prey were identified from the stomachs of 100 Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) incidentally taken by commercial salmon gillnets and research vessels from 1978 to 1982 in the western North…
Energy budget of a small cetacean, the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena (L.)
Yasui, W. Y.; Gaskin, D. E.
Ophelia (1986)
The objective of this study was to assemble the components of an energy budget for the harbour porpoise in the western Bay of Fundy, Canada. The annual energetic requirements for…
Linking sandeel consumption and the likelihood of starvation in harbour porpoises in the Scottish North Sea: Could climate change mean more starving porpoises?
MacLeod, C. D.; Santos, M. B.; Reid, R. J.; Scott, B. E.; Pierce, G. J.
Biology Letters (2007)
Sandeels are known to be negatively affected by climate change in a number of ways. This study investigated whether these changes are affecting the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), a species…
Starvation and sandeel consumption in harbour porpoises in the Scottish North Sea
MacLeod, Colin D.; Pierce, Graham J.; Begoña Santos, M.
Biology Letters (2007)
(...) Based on the evidence of a link between the likelihood of starvation and a lack of sandeels in the diet of porpoises in the Scottish North Sea in spring,…