Anthropogenically driven environmental changes affect our planet at an unprecedented
scale and are considered to be a key threat to biodiversity. According to the World Health …

Conservation biologists increasingly face the need to provide legislators, courts and
conservation managers with data on causal mechanisms underlying conservation problems …

Organochlorine (OC) pesticides and the more persistent polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)
have well-established dose-dependent toxicities to birds, fish and mammals in experimental …

Anthropogenic underwater noise is now recognized as a world-wide problem, and recent
studies have shown a broad range of negative effects in a variety of taxa. Underwater noise …

Marine mammals can play important ecological roles in aquatic ecosystems, and their
presence can be key to community structure and function. Consequently, marine mammals …

The purpose of this study was to develop a unified model capable of explaining the
mechanisms of interaction of ultrasound and biological tissue at both the diagnostic …

ABSTRACT 1 Since the last thorough review of the effects of anthropogenic noise on
cetaceans in 1995, a substantial number of research reports has been published and our …

Heterogeneous bubble nucleation is one of the most fundamental interfacial processes
ranging from nature to technology. There is excellent evidence that surface topology is …

Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) are known as extreme divers, though
behavioral data from this difficult-to-study species have been limited. They are also the …

Ocean noise pollution is of special concern for cetaceans, as they are highly dependent on
sound as their principal sense. Sound travels very efficiently underwater, so the potential …