Stable isotopes and a changing world

KA Hobson - Oecologia, 2023‏ - Springer
The measurement of naturally occurring stable isotope ratios of the light elements (C, N, H,
O, S) in animal tissues and associated organic and inorganic fractions of associated …

Insights on long-term ecosystem changes from stable isotopes in historical squid beaks

AV Golikov, JC Xavier, FR Ceia, JP Queirós… - BMC Ecology and …, 2024‏ - Springer
Background Assessing the historical dynamics of key food web components is crucial to
understand how climate change impacts the structure of Arctic marine ecosystems. Most …

Population changes in a Southern Ocean krill predator point towards regional Antarctic sea ice declines

M Germishuizen, M Vichi, E Vermeulen - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
While foraging, marine predators integrate information about the environment often across
wide-ranging oceanic foraging grounds and reflect these in population parameters. One …

Baleen stable isotopes reveal climate-driven behavioural shifts in North Atlantic fin whales

M Ruiz-Sagalés, R García-Vernet… - Science of the Total …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Climate variability impacts the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems and can
trigger behavioural responses in organisms. We investigated whether such variability …

A longitudinal study of endocrinology and foraging ecology of subadult gray whales prior to death based on baleen analysis

AF Ajó, C Teixeira, DMD de Mello, D Dillon… - General and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Individual-level assessments of wild animal health, vital rates, and foraging ecology are
critical for understanding population-wide impacts of exposure to stressors. Large whales …

[PDF][PDF] The Northernmost Record of a Stranded Southern Right Whale (Eubalaena australis) Calf in Ecuador's North Coast: Notes on Stranding Causes and …

JJ Alava, P Rosero R - Aquatic Mammals, 2024‏ - researchgate.net
Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) are large and robust baleen whales inhabiting
Southern Hemisphere oceans. This species is known for its distinctive callosities on its head …

Species rich but data poor: leveraging distribution modelling techniques to map cetacean occurrence in South Asian waters

I Samad, D Sutaria, K Shanker - bioRxiv, 2024‏ - biorxiv.org
Cetaceans play important ecosystem roles but are challenging to study since they are highly
mobile and spend their entire life at sea. More than a third of all cetaceans occur in South …

Whales and climate

JO Meynecke, S Derville, R Richards - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023‏ - frontiersin.org
Baleen whales have exhibited alterations from their traditional migration, breeding, and
feeding patterns in recent years (Ramp et al., 2015; Moore et al., 2019). Climate change is …

Impact of Climate Change on Arctic Marine

SO Adeniran-Obey, TO Imoobe - Arctic Marine Ecotoxicology, 2024‏ - Springer
This chapter rigorously analyzes the myriad anthropogenic activities that collectively
contribute to multi-stress conditions in exposed organisms, disrupting the delicate ecological …

Multi-method observations suggest recolonization of the Crozet Islands by southern right whales with links to different coastal calving grounds

E Vermeulen, P Tixier, EL Carroll, S Cerchio, T Collins… - 2024‏ - upcommons.upc.edu
In the past decade, notable changes have occurred in many of southern right whale
populations likely linked to global climate change. This has shifted research focus from …