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FIRST CETACEAN FOSSIL RECORDS FROM ECUADOR, COLLECTED FROM THE MIOCENE OF ESMERALDAS PROVINCE

open access: yesRivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2005
Cetacean fossils from Ecuador are reported for the first time on the basis of fragmentary remains referred to odontocetes, collected during our investigations of Neogene stratigraphic sequences outcropping along the northern coast (Esmeraldas Province ...
GIOVANNI BIANUCCI   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A mass stranding of seven Longman’s beaked whales (Indopacetus pacificus) in New Caledonia, South Pacific [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
International audienceSeven Longman’s beaked whales (Indopacetus pacificus) stranded together in southern New Caledonia on 16 November 2013 (one adult male, two adult females, two subadult females, one calf, and one unknown).
Bustamante, Paco   +8 more
core   +3 more sources

The spatial dynamics of land cover change along the Wallacea corridor in the key biodiversity area ‘Buano Island’, Maluku, Indonesia

open access: yesJournal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2020
Land cover change is an urgent global issue that needs to be addressed immediately. Its dynamics are of the greatest importance to Key Biodiversity Areas (KBAs) along the Wallacea Corridor, including Buano Island, whose land and sea are rich in ...
Bokiraiya Latuamury   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantification by droplet digital PCR and species identification by metabarcoding of environmental (e)DNA from Blainville's beaked whales, with assisted localization from an acoustic array.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
Detection and identification of species, subspecies or stocks of whales, dolphins and porpoises at sea remain challenging, particularly for cryptic or elusive species like beaked whales (Family: Ziphiidae). Here we investigated the potential for using an
Charles Scott Baker   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diet of mid-Atlantic Sowerby’s beaked whales Mesoplodon bidens [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.The first mid-Atlantic diet of Mesoplodon beaked whales is presented, from ten Sowerby's Mesoplodon bidens stranded in the Azores region between 2002 and 2009.
Barreiros, João P.   +9 more
core   +1 more source

The Greenland–Scotland Ridge in a Changing Ocean: Time to Act?

open access: yesMarine Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Greenland–Scotland Ridge is a submarine mountain that rises up to 500 m below the sea surface and extends from the east coast of Greenland to the continental shelf of Iceland and across the Faroe Islands to Scotland. The ridge not only separates deeper ocean basins on either side, that is, the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans, but also ...
Christophe Pampoulie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decompression vs. decomposition : distribution, amount, and gas composition of bubbles in stranded marine mammals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
© The Author(s), 2012. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Frontiers in Physiology 3 (2012): 177, doi:10.3389/fphys.2012.00177.Gas embolic lesions linked to ...
Arbelo, Manuel   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Distribution of beaked whales (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) off Southern New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1971
Abstract Sightings of 40 beaked whales (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) in waters to the east and south of New Zealand are discussed in relation to surface temperatures. (Only Mesoplodon layardi was specifically identified, once.) All but two sightings were recorded within a temperature range of 11.6°c to 16.9°c with a mean of 15.11 ± 0.53°c, which suggests that ...
openaire   +1 more source

Chromosomes of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus linnaeus) [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1979The somatic chromosomes of the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, are described for the first time using homogeneous staining and trypsin G-banding.
Jarrell, Gordon Hamilton
core  

Bayesian three-dimensional reconstruction of toothed whale trajectories: Passive acoustics assisted with visual and tagging measurements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The author describes and evaluates a Bayesian method to reconstruct three-dimensional toothed whale trajectories from a series of echolocation signals.
Laplanche, Christophe
core   +4 more sources

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