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Riverside underwater noise pollution threaten porpoises and fish along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, China

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2021
The Yangtze River exhibits a high biodiversity and plays an important role in global biodiversity conservation. As the world's busiest inland river in regard to shipping, little attention has been paid to underwater noise pollution.
Zhi-Tao Wang, Peng-Xiang Duan, Tomonari Akamatsu, Yu-Wei Chen, Xue An, Jing Yuan, Pei-Yu Lei, Jiao Li, Lu Zhou, Ming-Chao Liu, Yi-Ning Yang, Fei Fan, Ke-Xiong Wang, Ding Wang   +13 more
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A real-time passive acoustic monitoring system to detect Yangtze finless porpoise clicks in Ganjiang River, China

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Phocoenidae live in fresh, coastal waters where they often share a significant portion of their habitat with humans. As a result, local activities (e.g., coastal fisheries and shipments) cause underwater noise pollution and threaten their ecosystem.
Weilun Li, Weilun Li, Weilun Li, Jiansong Qiu, Jiansong Qiu, Peiyu Lei, Peiyu Lei, Xiaohong Chen, Fei Fan, Xiaojun Deng, Xiaojun Deng, Yingen Dai, Yanqing Deng, Kexiong Wang, Kexiong Wang, Zhigang Mei, Zhigang Mei   +16 more
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Sound Reception in the Yangtze Finless Porpoise and Its Extension to a Biomimetic Receptor

Biomimetics, 2023
Sound reception was investigated in the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis) at its most sensitive frequency. The computed tomography scanning, sound speed, and density results were used to develop a three-dimensional numerical model of the porpoise sound-reception system.
Zhongchang Song, Wenzhan Ou, Jiao Li, Chuang Zhang, Weijie Fu, Wenjie Xiang, Ding Wang, Kexiong Wang, Yu Zhang   +8 more
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Evolutionary differentiation and adaptive divergence support the Yangtze finless porpoise as an independent species, a flagship of conservation value: A review [PDF]

Nature Conservation
Accurate species delineation is critical for implementing evidence-based conservation frameworks for endangered species, enabling precise prioritisation of ecological interventions and allocation of conservation resources.
Yi Lu, Kaiya Zhou, Guang Yang
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Spatiotemporal relationships of threatened cetaceans and anthropogenic threats in the lower Yangtze system

Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022
The impacts of fisheries interactions on cetaceans can be challenging to determine, often requiring multiple complementary investigative approaches. The Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis), one of the few Critically ...
Lisa M. W. Mogensen, Lisa M. W. Mogensen, Zhigang Mei, Yujiang Hao, Michael A. Hudson, Michael A. Hudson, Ding Wang, Samuel T. Turvey   +7 more
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Impacts of Sand Mining Activities on the Wetland Ecosystem of Poyang Lake (China)

Land, 2022
Increasing anthropogenic activities are threatening freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Sand mining in Poyang Lake has significantly impacted the wetland ecosystem over the past 20 years, yet a quantitative analysis of these impacts remains insufficient ...
Mingming Deng, Qiyue Li, Wenya Li, Geying Lai, Yue Pan   +4 more
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Viral Diversity and Epidemiology in Critically Endangered Yangtze Finless Porpoises (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis)

Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
The Yangtze finless porpoise (YFP) (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) is a critically endangered freshwater cetacean, with about 1,249 individuals thought to be left in the wild.
Xin Zhao, Caijiao Dai, Shiyu Qian, Qing Tang, Lijuan Li, Yujiang Hao, Zhijian Zhou, Xingyi Ge, Cheng Gong, Junfa Yuan   +9 more
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Variation of blubber thickness of the Yangtze finless porpoise (Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis) in human care: Adaptation to environmental temperature

Water Biology and Security, 2023
Blubber thickness (BT) has a seasonal pattern in most small cetaceans in temperate and polar regions, which may be a crucial adaptive mechanism in response to environmental temperature changes.
Bin Tang, Yujiang Hao, Chaoqun Wang, Zhengyu Deng, Guilin Shu, Kexiong Wang, Ding Wang   +6 more
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Hearing pathways in the Yangtze finless porpoise,Neophocaena asiaeorientalis asiaeorientalis [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2013
SummaryHow an animal receives sound may influence its use of sound. While "jaw hearing" is well supported for odontocetes, examining how sound is received across the head work has been limited to a few representative species. The substantial variation in jaw and head morphology among odontocetes suggests variation in sound reception.
Mooney, A., Li, S., Ketten, Darlene, Wang, K., Wang, D.   +4 more
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Precautionary Principle or Evidence-Based Conservation? Assessing the Information Content of Threat Data for the Yangtze Finless Porpoise

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Conservation management requires evidence, but robust data on key parameters such as threats are often unavailable. Conservation-relevant insights might be available within datasets collected for other reasons, making it important to determine the ...
Lisa M. W. Mogensen, Lisa M. W. Mogensen, Zhigang Mei, Yujiang Hao, Xavier A. Harrison, Ding Wang, Samuel T. Turvey   +6 more
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