258 of simple methodologies to the capabilities of participants. Studies for which volunteers
needed to identify many different species and estimate their abundances were considered …

The population status of harbor porpoises has been of concern for several years, and the
establishment of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has been suggested as a method to protect …

Ecological indicators for monitoring strategies are expected to combine three major
characteristics: ecological significance, statistical credibility, and cost-effectiveness …

There is increasing evidence that the distributions of a large number of species are shifting
with global climate change as they track changing surface temperatures that define their …

The temperate waters of the North-Eastern Atlantic have a long history of maritime resource
richness and, as a result, the European Union is endeavouring to maintain regional …

In the last ten years, 14 species of cetaceans and five species of pinnipeds stranded along
the Atlantic coast of Brittany in the North West of France. All species included, an average of …

The harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena (L., 1758)) used to be common in Puget Sound,
Washington, but virtually disappeared from these waters by the 1970s. We conducted …

Abundance of harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena) on the Dutch Continental Shelf,
aerial surveys in July 2010-March 2011 Page 1 Geelhoed et al. / Lutra 2013 56 (1): 45-57 45 …

Within the past several decades, Indo-Pacific Hong Kong is a major global tourism
destination, humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in financial center, and ship** and …

In recent decades, grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour porpoises (Phocoena
phocoena) have become more numerous along the coasts of Brittany in northwestern …