In response to ever-increasing anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems, regional,
national and international organizations have established guidelines for monitoring …

Monitoring spatial and temporal patterns in cetacean abundance involves a variety of
approaches depending upon the target species and the resources available. As a first step …

Cetacean–habitat modeling, although still in the early stages of development, represents a
potentially powerful tool for predicting cetacean distributions and understanding the …

Large, migratory predators are often cited as sentinel species for ecosystem processes and
climate‐related changes, but their utility as indicators is dependent upon an understanding …

We assessed scientists' ability to detect declines of marine mammal stocks based on recent
levels of survey effort, when the actual decline is precipitous. We defined a precipitous …

In February 2002, France, Italy and Monaco agreed to establish an international sanctuary
for Mediterranean marine mammals. The resulting Pelagos Sanctuary encompasses over …

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 …

Predators and prey assort themselves relative to each other, the availability of resources and
refuges, and the temporal and spatial scale of their interaction. Predictive models of predator …

The abundance and population density of cetaceans along the US west coast were
estimated from ship surveys conducted in the summer and fall of 1991, 1993, 1996, 2001 …

Very little is known about the ecology of snubfin Orcaella heinsohni and Indo-Pacific
humpback dolphins Sousa chinensis in Australian waters. We used photo-identification data …