Many ecologists have lamented the demise of natural history and have attributed this
decline to a misguided view that natural history is outdated and unscientific. Although there …

Abstract The Southern Ocean ecosystem has undergone extensive changes in the past two
centuries driven by industrial sealing and whaling, climate change and commercial fishing …

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 …

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

Large groups of animals aggregate around resource hotspots, with group size often
influenced by the heterogeneity of the environment. In most cases, the foraging success of …

Predator diets are largely influenced by prey availability and abundance. Yet, in
heterogenous marine environments, identifying the prey species consumed by diving …

Although gigantic body size and obligate filter feeding mechanisms have evolved in multiple
vertebrate lineages (mammals and fishes), intermittent ram (lunge) filter feeding is unique to …

Fundamental scaling relationships influence the physiology of vital rates, which in turn
shape the ecology and evolution of organisms. For diving mammals, benefits conferred by …

Assessing the long-term consequences of sub-lethal anthropogenic disturbance on wildlife
populations requires integrating data on fine-scale individual behavior and physiology into …