Inshore and offshore coastal regions are becoming increasingly occupied by anthropogenic
infrastructure. This trend will continue with the drive for offshore renewable energy …

Ship** is the most pervasive source of marine noise pollution globally, yet its impact on
sensitive fauna remains unclear. We tracked 10 harbour porpoises for 5–10 days to …

Highly social top marine predators, including many cetaceans, exhibit culturally learned
ecological behaviours such as diet preference and foraging strategy that can affect their …

Bioenergetic models describe the processes through which animals acquire energy from
resources in the environment and allocate it to different life history functions. They capture …

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 …

Bioenergetic approaches are increasingly used to understand how marine mammal
populations could be affected by a changing and disturbed aquatic environment. There …

Longitudinal data on individual growth and seasonal changes in body mass, girth, and
blubber thickness are rarely available for cetaceans, making it difficult to assess their …

Objective For foraging animals, energy acquisition is often influenced by an interaction of
prey abundance and the amount of space needed to capture sufficient food. Suitable habitat …

Marine predators are vital to the healthy functioning of coastal ecosystems, but to
understand their roles, it is necessary to elucidate their movement ecology, particularly in …

Determining how animals allocate energy, and how external factors influence this allocation,
is crucial to understand species' life history requirements and response to disturbance. This …