[HTML][HTML] Effectiveness of marine protected areas in safeguarding important migratory megafauna habitat

X Zhang, EL Carroll, R Constantine… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a commonly used management tool to safeguard marine
life from anthropogenic impacts, yet their efficacy often remains untested. Evaluating how …

A pan‐cetacean MHC amplicon sequencing panel developed and evaluated in combination with genome assemblies

D Heimeier, EC Garland… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is a highly polymorphic gene family that is
crucial in immunity, and its diversity can be effectively used as a fitness marker for …

[PDF][PDF] Right whale sexual strategies and behavior

MW Brown, M Sironi - Sex in cetaceans, 2023 - library.oapen.org
North Atlantic and southern right whale social interactions and sexual behavior have been
studied for decades. Understanding whale mating systems can inform about many aspects …

Movements and behaviour of southern right whales satellite-tracked in and beyond a subantarctic archipelago wintering ground

CR Weir, S Fernandez, JA Jackson, A Miller… - Endangered Species …, 2024 - int-res.com
The post-exploitation recovery of the south-west Atlantic southern right whale (SRW,
Eubalaena australis) population has been affected by widespread calf mortalities, resulting …

Seabird attacks contribute to calf mortality in a whale population

M Piotto, I Barberá, M Sironi, VJ Rowntree… - Marine Ecology …, 2024 - int-res.com
Reports of seabirds attacking marine mammals have become frequent in the 2000s.
Southern right whales Eubalaena australis off Península Valdés (PV), Argentina, have …

Southern right whales in the Central and Southeast Pacific (Chile-Peru Population): sightings, body condition and mtDNA haplotypes of mother-calf pairs

AM García-Cegarra, F Christiansen, AN Zerbini… - 2024 - research-repository.uwa.edu.au
The critically endangered subpopulation of southern right whales (SRWs; Eubalaena
australis) in the southeast Pacific Ocean (Chile-Peru) is poorly studied due to its low …

Dynamics of a recovering population of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis)

DR Johnston - 2023 - ourarchive.otago.ac.nz
One of the greatest challenges for environmental science is to understand how changes in
global climate might affect biological systems. Marine mammals can act as sentinels of …