Managing the nonlethal effects of disturbance on wildlife populations has been a long‐term
goal for decision makers, managers, and ecologists, and assessment of these effects is …

Marine mammals face a large array of stressors, including loss of habitat, chemical and
noise pollution, and bycatch in fishing, which alone kills hundreds of thousands of marine …

An animal's body condition will affect its survival and reproductive success, which influences
population dynamics. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about the body …

The cost of reproduction is a key parameter determining a species' life history strategy.
Despite exhibiting some of the fastest offspring growth rates among mammals, the cost of …

The North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis (NARW), currently numbering< 410
individuals, is on a trajectory to extinction. Although direct mortality from ship strikes and …

The eastern North Pacific gray whale Eschrichtius robustus experienced an unusual
mortality event (UME) in 2019-2020, with 384 whales found dead along the Pacific coasts of …

Almost 80% of the oceans, especially the Arctic and Subarctic are primarily inhabited by
marine mammals. Marine species depend mostly on sea ice for food, raising their young …

The ability to accurately gauge the body condition of free‐swimming cetaceans is invaluable
in population and conservation biology, due to the direct implications that this measure has …

The need for managing non‐lethal effects on wildlife is becoming increasingly important as
global human–wildlife interactions are now more frequent and more diverse. We developed …

Integrating behavior and physiology is critical to formulating new hypotheses on the
evolution of animal life-history strategies. Migratory capital breeders acquire most of the …