Many organisms depend on sound for communication, predator/prey detection and
navigation. The acoustic environment can therefore play an important role in ecosystem …

Many marine animals use sound passively or actively for communication, foraging, predator
avoidance, navigation, and to sense their environment. The advent of acoustic recording …

This is the fourth book dedicated to distance sampling. The first (Buckland et al. 1993)
appeared at around the same time as the first version of the Distance software (Laake et al …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The question of how individuals acquire and allocate resources to maximize fitness is
central in evolutionary ecology. Basic information on prey selection, search effort, and …

Winner, 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the Biological Sciences. Professional and
Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers In this unique book …

Humans have always been fascinated by marine life, from extremely small diatoms to the
largest mammal that inhabits our planet, the blue whale. However, studying marine life in the …

Beaked whales have mass stranded during some naval sonar exercises, but the cause is
unknown. They are difficult to sight but can reliably be detected by listening for echolocation …

Sound-and-orientation recording tags (DTAGs) were used to study 10 beaked whales of two
poorly known species, Ziphius cavirostris (Zc) and Mesoplodon densirostris (Md). Acoustic …

This review considers the effect of anthropogenic sound on beaked whales2. Two major
conclusions are presented:(1) gas-bubble disease, induced in supersaturated tissue by a …