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OceansBaleen whales are ecosystem sentinels of microplastic pollution. Research indicates that they likely ingest millions of anthropogenic microparticles per day when feeding.
Jeremy A. Goldbogen +2 more
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Integrating Multiple Data Sources Improves Abundance Estimation in Spatial Capture-Recapture Models. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study demonstrates how integrating multiple data streams improves abundance estimation for a wide‐ranging marine population, eastern North Pacific blue whales. The application of this approach is valuable to accurately track population size which is critical to guide conservation and management strategies.
Whittome G +7 more
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Reproductive Tactics in Baleen Whales [PDF]
, 2023 AbstractWhile a variety of reproductive tactics are readily witnessed in odontocetes, such behaviors can be far more elusive in baleen whales and in some cases are yet to be observed. This leads researchers to study the reproductive behaviors in mysticetes using a variety of research methods which have improved greatly in recent years.
Franca Eichenberger +2 more
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Blubber biopsy biomarkers for baleen whales. [PDF]
Conserv PhysiolBouyoucos IA.
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Exploring movement patterns and changing distributions of baleen whales in the western North Atlantic using a decade of passive acoustic data [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2020 Susan E. Parks +2 more
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Hydration affects the physical and mechanical properties of baleen tissue [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Baleen, an anisotropic oral filtering tissue found only in the mouth of mysticete whales and made solely of alpha-keratin, exhibits markedly differing physical and mechanical properties between dried or (as in life) hydrated states.
Alexander J. Werth +4 more
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Assessing the viability of estimating baleen whale abundance from tourist vessels
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Many populations of southern hemisphere baleen whales are recovering and are again becoming dominant consumers in the Southern Ocean. Key to understanding the present and future role of baleen whales in Southern Ocean ecosystems is determining their ...
Angus Fleetwood Henderson +9 more
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Lethal entanglement in baleen whales [PDF]
Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2011 Understanding the scenarios whereby fishing gear entanglement of large whales induces mortality is important for the development of mitigation strategies. Here we present a series of 21 cases involving 4 species of baleen whales in the NW Atlantic, describing the available sighting history, necropsy observations, and subsequent data analyses that ...
Cassoff, Rachel M. +5 more
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Baleen Hydrodynamics and Morphology of Cross-Flow Filtration in Balaenid Whale Suspension Feeding. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 The traditional view of mysticete feeding involves static baleen directly sieving particles from seawater using a simple, dead-end flow-through filtration mechanism.
Alexander J Werth, Jean Potvin
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The genome of the pygmy right whale illuminates the evolution of rorquals
BMC Biology, 2023 Background Baleen whales are a clade of gigantic and highly specialized marine mammals. Their genomes have been used to investigate their complex evolutionary history and to decipher the molecular mechanisms that allowed them to reach these dimensions ...
Magnus Wolf +5 more
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