A review of impacts of marine dredging activities on marine mammals

VLG Todd, IB Todd, JC Gardiner… - ICES Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Marine dredging is an excavation activity carried out worldwide by many industries. Concern
about the impact dredging has on marine life, including marine mammals (cetaceans …

Cephalopods in the north-eastern Atlantic: species, biogeography, ecology, exploitation and conservation

LC Hastie, GJ Pierce, J Wang, I Bruno… - … and marine biology, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Cephalopods play a signicant role in coastal and oceanic ecosystems, both as consumers of
invertebrates and small sh and as the prey of some sh, seabirds and marine mammals and …

Cost of living dictates what whales, dolphins and porpoises eat: the importance of prey quality on predator foraging strategies

J Spitz, AW Trites, V Becquet, A Brind'Amour, Y Cherel… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Understanding the mechanisms that drive prey selection is a major challenge in foraging
ecology. Most studies of foraging strategies have focused on behavioural costs, and have …

Distribution and genetic diversity of Anisakis spp. in cetaceans from the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea

P Cipriani, M Palomba, L Giulietti, F Marcer… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Parasite biodiversity in cetaceans represents a neglected component of the marine
ecosystem. This study aimed to investigate the distribution and genetic diversity of anisakid …

Prey preferences among the community of deep-diving odontocetes from the Bay of Biscay, Northeast Atlantic

J Spitz, Y Cherel, S Bertin, J Kiszka, A Dewez… - Deep Sea Research …, 2011 - Elsevier
Long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas), Risso's dolphins (Grampus griseus), melon-
headed whales (Peponocephala electra), Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic contaminants and histopathological findings in stranded cetaceans in the southeastern United States, 2012–2018

A Page-Karjian, CF Lo, B Ritchie, CA Harms… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Anthropogenic contaminants in the marine environment often biodegrade slowly,
bioaccumulate in organisms, and can have deleterious effects on wildlife immunity, health …

Seasonal distribution and abundance of cetaceans within French waters-Part II: The Bay of Biscay and the English Channel

S Laran, M Authier, A Blanck, G Doremus… - Deep Sea Research …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract From the Habitat Directive to the recent Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the
conservation status of cetaceans in European water has been of concern for over two …

Assessing seasonality and density from passive acoustic monitoring of signals presumed to be from pygmy and dwarf sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico

JA Hildebrand, KE Frasier… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia sima) are deep
diving cetaceans that commonly strand along the coast of the southeast US, but that are …

Predicting cetacean habitats from their energetic needs and the distribution of their prey in two contrasted tropical regions

C Lambert, L Mannocci, P Lehodey, V Ridoux - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
To date, most habitat models of cetaceans have relied on static and oceanographic
covariates, and very few have related cetaceans directly to the distribution of their prey, as a …

Lung size and thoracic morphology in shallow‐and deep‐diving cetaceans

MA Piscitelli, WA McLellan, SA Rommel… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Shallow‐diving, coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and deep‐diving, pelagic
pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia breviceps and K. sima) will experience vastly …