Humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, are a highly migratory species exposed to a
wide range of environmental factors during their lifetime. The spatial and temporal …

Increasing evidence suggests that climate change is negatively affecting marine ecosystems
and biota. However, little is known of how climate change will impact marine mammals. This …

Stranded marine mammals are an important source of information and biological samples
on cetacean population. Nevertheless, collecting stranding data remains opportunistic and …

Understanding temporal patterns of marine mammal occurrence is useful for establishing
conservation strategies. We used a 38 yr-long dataset spanning 1976 to 2013 to describe …

With the dramatic increase in anthropogenic threats to the Pearl River Estuary (PRE), the
population size of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) has significantly …

Stranded cetaceans have long intrigued naturalists because their causation has escaped
singular explanations. Regardless of cause, strandings also represent a sample of the living …

To understand the cause of death of 405 marine mammals stranded on Cape Cod and
southeastern Massachusetts between 2000 and 2006, a system for coding final diagnosis …

Marine vertebrate strandings data can provide insights into the long-term dynamics of
cetacean populations, and the threats they face. We investigate whether the spatio-temporal …

There are many factors that may explain why cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises)
strand. Around the UK and Ireland, over 20,000 stranding records have been collected since …

Background Mass strandings of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) remain peculiar
and rather unexplained events, which rarely occur in the Mediterranean Sea. Solar cycles …