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High field metabolic rates of wild harbour porpoises [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018
ABSTRACTReliable estimates of field metabolic rates (FMRs) in wild animals are essential for quantifying their ecological roles, as well as for evaluating fitness consequences of anthropogenic disturbances. Yet, standard methods for measuring FMR are difficult to use on free-ranging cetaceans whose FMR may deviate substantially from scaling predictions
Laia Rojano-Doñate, Birgitte I. McDonald, Danuta M. Wisniewska, Mark Johnson, Jonas Teilmann, Magnus Wahlberg, Jakob Højer-Kristensen, Peter T. Madsen   +7 more
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Assessment of Harbour Porpoise Bycatch along the Portuguese and Galician Coast: Insights from Strandings over Two Decades

Animals, 2023
The Iberian harbour porpoise population is small and fisheries bycatch has been described as one of its most important threats. Data on harbour porpoise strandings collected by the Portuguese and Galician stranding networks between 2000 and 2020 are ...
Andreia Torres-Pereira, Hélder Araújo, Silvia Silva Monteiro, Marisa Ferreira, Jorge Bastos-Santos, Sara Sá, Lídia Nicolau, Ana Marçalo, Carina Marques, Ana Sofia Tavares, Myriam De Bonis, Pablo Covelo, José Martínez-Cedeira, Alfredo López, Marina Sequeira, José Vingada, Catarina Eira   +16 more
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Polluted porpoises: Generational transfer of organic contaminants in harbour porpoises from the southern North Sea

Science of The Total Environment, 2021
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenylethers (PBDEs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB), bioaccumulate in marine ecosystems. Top predators contain high levels of POPs in their lipid-rich tissues, which may result in adverse effects on their reproductive, immune and endocrine functions. Harbour
van den Heuvel-Greve, Martine J., van den Brink, Anneke M., Kotterman, Michiel J.J., Kwadijk, Christiaan J.A.F., Geelhoed, Steve C.V., Murphy, Sinéad, van den Broek, Jan, Heesterbeek, Hans, Gröne, Andrea, IJsseldijk, Lonneke L.   +9 more
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Tattoo Skin Disease in Cetacea: A Review, with New Cases for the Northeast Pacific

Animals, 2022
Tattoo skin disease (TSD) is a poxviral dermatopathy diagnosed in cetaceans. We review the literature on TSD aetiology, clinical characteristics, pathology and epidemiology and evaluate immune responses against the virus.
Marie-Françoise Van Bressem, Koen Van Waerebeek, Pádraig J. Duignan   +2 more
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Zn, Cu, Cd and Hg binding to metallothioneins in harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena from the southern North Sea

BMC Ecology, 2006
Background Harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena from the southern North Sea are known to display high levels of Zn and Hg in their tissues linked to their nutritional status (emaciation). The question arises regarding a potential role of metallothioneins (
Jauniaux Thierry, De Groof Arnaud, Das Krishna, Bouquegneau Jean-Marie   +3 more
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Spatial orientation in echolocating harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2005
SUMMARY Studies concerning the echolocation behaviour of odontocetes focus mainly on target detection and discrimination, either in stationary animals or in animals approaching a specific target. We present the first data on the use of echolocation for spatial orientation or navigation.
Verfuss, U.K., Miller, Lee A., Schnitzler, H.-U.   +2 more
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Sightings of Cetaceans in the waters of Yuzhny Sea Port (Hryhorivsky Estuary, Black Sea) in 2015–2016 [PDF]

Праці Теріологічної школи, 2016
The use of transformed coastal ecosystems by the Black Sea cetaceans is an important, but little studied issue. In 2015–2016, coastal visual observations of cetaceans were conducted in the waters of Yuzhny Sea Port.
Оksana Savenko, Julia Ivanchikova, Bohdan Hulak, Tatyana Derkacheva   +3 more
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In the Search of Marine Pestiviruses: First Case of Phocoena Pestivirus in a Belt Sea Harbour Porpoise

Viruses, 2022
Pestiviruses are widespread pathogens causing severe acute and chronic diseases among terrestrial mammals. Recently, Phocoena pestivirus (PhoPeV) was described in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) of the North Sea, expanding the host range to marine ...
Iben Stokholm, Nicole Fischer, Christine Baechlein, Alexander Postel, Anders Galatius, Line Anker Kyhn, Charlotte Bie Thøstesen, Sara Persson, Ursula Siebert, Morten Tange Olsen, Paul Becher   +10 more
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Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief, Sandra Bouwhuis, Anja Globig, Anne Günther, Wouter Courtens   +4 more
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Defining management units for cetaceans by combining genetics, morphology, acoustics and satellite tracking

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015
Managing animal units is essential in biological conservation and requires spatial and temporal identification of such units. Since even neighbouring populations often have different conservation status and face different levels of anthropogenic pressure,
Signe Sveegaard, Anders Galatius, Rune Dietz, Line Kyhn, Jens C. Koblitz, Mats Amundin, Jacob Nabe-Nielsen, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Liselotte W. Andersen, Jonas Teilmann   +9 more
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