Decompression sickness (DCS;'the bends') is a disease associated with gas uptake at
pressure. The basic pathology and cause are relatively well known to human divers. Breath …

The aquatic habitat of marine “air-breathing” vertebrates provides a significant
thermoregulatory challenge due to the high thermal conductivity of water. In addition to …

The gut microbiota of mammals underpins the metabolic capacity and health of the host. Our
understanding of what influences the composition of this community has been limited …

Lunge feeding by rorqual whales (Balaenopteridae) is associated with a high energetic cost
that decreases diving capacity, thereby limiting access to dense prey patches at depth …

Robust predictions of predator–prey interactions are fundamental for the understanding of
food webs, their structure, dynamics, resistance to species loss, response to invasions and …

Dive behavior represents multiple ecological functions for marine mammals, but our
understanding of dive characteristics is typically limited by the resolution or longevity of …

In the last thirty years, the emergence and progression of biologging technology has led to
great advances in marine predator ecology. Large databases of location and dive …

Bioenergetics is the study of how animals achieve energetic balance. Energetic balance
results from the energetic expenditure of an individual and the energy they extract from their …

Researchers from different domains have developed several metaheuristic algorithms that
are inspired by the biological phenomenon. In this work, we propose a novel algorithm that …

The global population of Leach's Storm-Petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous), the smallest and
most abundant breeding seabird species in eastern Canada, has declined substantially in …