How whales dive, feast, and fast: the ecophysiological drivers and limits of foraging in the evolution of cetaceans

JA Goldbogen, ND Pyenson… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Whales are an extraordinary study group for questions about ecology and evolution
because their combinations of extreme body sizes and unique foraging strategies are …

REVIEW Assessing North Atlantic right whale health: Threats, and development of tools critical for conservation of the species

MJ Moore, TK Rowles, DA Fauquier, JD Baker… - Diseases of aquatic …, 2021 - int-res.com
Whaling has decimated North Atlantic right whales Eubalaena glacialis (NARW) since the
11 th century and southern right whales E. australis (SRW) since the 19 th century. Today …

Boom-bust cycles in gray whales associated with dynamic and changing Arctic conditions

JD Stewart, TW Joyce, JW Durban, J Calambokidis… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Climate change is affecting a wide range of global systems, with polar ecosystems
experiencing the most rapid change. Although climate impacts affect lower-trophic-level and …

[HTML][HTML] Decreasing body lengths in North Atlantic right whales

JD Stewart, JW Durban, AR Knowlton, MS Lynn… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Whales are now largely protected from direct harvest, leading to partial recoveries in many
previously depleted species. 1 However, most populations remain far below their historical …

Poor body condition associated with an unusual mortality event in gray whales

F Christiansen, F Rodríguez-González… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
The eastern North Pacific gray whale Eschrichtius robustus experienced an unusual
mortality event (UME) in 2019-2020, with 384 whales found dead along the Pacific coasts of …

Seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

KC Bierlich, J Hewitt, RS Schick, L Pallin… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Most baleen whales are capital breeders that use stored energy acquired on foraging
grounds to finance the costs of migration and reproduction on breeding grounds. Body …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in marine mammal research: A review of current applications and challenges

M Álvarez-González, P Suarez-Bregua, GJ Pierce… - Drones, 2023 - mdpi.com
Research on the ecology and biology of marine mammal populations is necessary to
understand ecosystem dynamics and to support conservation management. Emerging …

Multi-event modeling of true reproductive states of individual female right whales provides new insights into their decline

J Reed, L New, P Corkeron, R Harcourt - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Abundance and population trends of Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales
(Eubalaena glacialis, NARW) have been estimated using mark-recapture analyses where …

Drone Surveys Are More Accurate Than Boat-Based Surveys of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus)

T Fettermann, L Fiori, L Gillman, KA Stockin, B Bollard - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Generating accurate estimates of group sizes or behaviours of cetaceans from boat-based
surveys can be challenging because much of their activity occurs below the water surface …

Bayesian approach for predicting photogrammetric uncertainty in morphometric measurements derived from drones

KC Bierlich, RS Schick, J Hewitt, J Dale… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Increasingly, drone-based photogrammetry has been used to measure size and body
condition changes in marine megafauna. A broad range of platforms, sensors, and …