High‐throughput environmental sensing technologies are increasingly central to global
monitoring of the ecological impacts of human activities. In particular, the recent boom in …

Many organisms depend on sound for communication, predator/prey detection and
navigation. The acoustic environment can therefore play an important role in ecosystem …

Baleen whales influence their ecosystems through immense prey consumption and nutrient
recycling,–. It is difficult to accurately gauge the magnitude of their current or historic …

Microparticles, such as microplastics and microfibers, are ubiquitous in marine food webs.
Filter-feeding megafauna may be at extreme risk of exposure to microplastics, but neither the …

This is the fourth book dedicated to distance sampling. The first (Buckland et al. 1993)
appeared at around the same time as the first version of the Distance software (Laake et al …

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

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …

Reliable estimation of the size or density of wild animal populations is very important for
effective wildlife management, conservation and ecology. Currently, the most widely used …

Human societies depend on marine ecosystems, but their degradation continues. Toward
mitigating this decline, new and more effective ways to precisely measure the status and …

Behavior is an important mechanism of evolution and it is paid for through energy
expenditure. Nevertheless, field biologists can rarely observe animals for more than a …