Conservation biology has been accurately described as a crisis discipline. Much like the
human disease crisis disciplines of HIV biology and cancer biology, conservation biology …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

It is well known that hunting dramatically reduced all baleen whale populations, yet reliable
estimates of former whale abundances are elusive. Based on coalescent models for …

After decades of debate about the existence of non‐genetic inheritance, the focus is now
slowly shifting towards dissecting its underlying mechanisms. Here, we propose a new …

Cetaceans are fully aquatic predatory mammals that have successfully colonized virtually all
marine habitats. Their adaptation to these habitats, so radically different from those of their …

The rate of growth of any population is a quantity of interest in conservation and
management and is constrained by biological factors. In this study, recent data on life-history …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) annually undertake the longest migrations
between seasonal feeding and breeding grounds of any mammal. Despite this dispersal …

We examined fine‐scale genetic variation among breeding aggregations of the spotted
salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) to quantify dispersal, interpopulation connectivity and …

Baleen whales are the largest animals that have ever lived. To develop an improved
estimation of substitution rate for nuclear and mitochondrial DNA for this taxon, we …

Site fidelity is common among migratory cetaceans, including humpback whales (Megaptera
novaeangliae). In the Northern Hemisphere it has been found that fidelity to humpback …