Sustainability (2019)
...We want to emphasize that more than 90 % of our manuscript is devoted to these local fishermen perception analyses. However, in its final section, our article does refer that…
Response to “Resilience of harbor porpoises to anthropogenic disturbance: Must they really feed continuously?”
Wisniewska, Danuta Maria; Johnson, Mark; Teilmann, Jonas; Rojano-Doñate, Laia; Shearer, Jeanne; Sveegaard, Signe; Miller, Lee A.; Siebert, Ursula; Madsen, Peter Teglberg
Marine Mammal Science (2017)
...There is, unfortunately, no unbiased way to assess the prey preference and dietary intake of free-ranging marine mammals like harbor porpoises. Although the traditional approach involving stomach content analysis of…
Response to Kopps & Palsboll
van der Plas-Duivesteijn, Suzanne; Kraaijeveld, Ken
Journal of Sea Research (2016)
(...) Kopps and Palsboll conclude by implying that conservation research should somehow be held to higher standards of rigor than more basic academic endeavors, because it has ‘direct impact on…
Inference from limited data: A response to Lonergan
Gerrodette, Tim; Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo
Marine Mammal Science (2012)
(...) Lonergan (2012) criticized the analysis of Gerrodette and Rojas-Bracho (2011), who estimated the success of three possible protected areas for the critically endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) proposed under the…
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,…
Geographical variation of the harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, evaluated by discriminant analysis
Gao, Anli; Gaskin, D. E.
Marine Mammal Sci (1998)
(...) In the preceding communication K. A. Tolley states (twice) that Gao and Gaskin (1996) committed “serious interpretive errors that neither support their results nor the recent literature.” Needless to…