Age-specific behavior and habitat use in humpback whales: implications for vessel strike

JEF Stepanuk, EI Heywood, JF Lopez… - Marine Ecology …, 2021 - int-res.com
Vessel strikes are a major threat impacting large whales globally. Juvenile whales often
represent a high proportion of lethal vessel strikes, but few studies have investigated …

Night and Day: Diel Differences in Ship Strike Risk for Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the California Current System

EM Keen, KL Scales, BK Rone, EL Hazen… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Collisions with ships (ship strikes) are a pressing conservation concern for fin whales
(Balaenoptera physalus) along western North America. Fin whales exhibit strong diel …

Ferries and environmental DNA: Underway sampling from commercial vessels provides new opportunities for systematic genetic surveys of marine biodiversity

E Valsecchi, A Arcangeli, R Lombardi… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine environmental DNA (eDNA) is an important tool for biodiversity research and
monitoring but challenges remain in scaling surveys over large spatial areas, and increasing …

Environmental cycles and individual variation in the vertical movements of a benthic elasmobranch

E Lavender, D Aleynik, J Dodd, J Illian, M James… - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Trends in depth and vertical activity reflect the behaviour, habitat use and habitat
preferences of marine organisms. However, among elasmobranchs, research has focused …

First Suction Cup Tagging on a Small and Coastal Form Bryde's Whale (Balaenoptera edeni edeni) in China to Investigate Its Dive Profiles and Foraging Behaviours

L Dong, M Liu, W Lin, S Li - Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Small-and-coastal-form Bryde's whales (Balaenoptera edeni edeni) are known to inhabit
coastal and continental shelf waters. However, little is known on their ethological activities …

Singing fin whale swimming behavior in the central North Pacific

RA Guazzo, IN Durbach, TA Helble… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Male fin whales sing using 20 Hz pulses produced in regular patterns of inter-note intervals,
but little is known about fin whale swimming behavior while they are singing. Even less is …

[HTML][HTML] Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Ligurian Sea: Preliminary study on acoustics demonstrates their regular occurrence in autumn

L Pintore, V Sciacca, S Viola, C Giacoma… - Journal of Marine …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The patterns of movement of the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758)) in the
Mediterranean Sea are still a matter of debate. Feeding aggregations are well known in the …

A satellite-linked tag for the long-term monitoring of diving behavior in large whales

DM Palacios, LM Irvine, BA Lagerquist… - Animal …, 2022 - Springer
Despite spending most time underwater, the technology in use to track whales over large
geographic ranges via satellite has been largely limited to locational data, with most …

Dive behavior of North Atlantic right whales on the calving ground in the Southeast USA: implications for conservation

JRG Dombroski, SE Parks, DP Nowacek - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
The North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis is a Critically Endangered whale whose
habitat overlaps with areas of high human use. On feeding grounds, aspects of its behavior …

Acoustic tracking of fin whales: Habitat use and movement patterns within a Canadian Pacific fjord system

B Hendricks, EM Keen, C Shine, JL Wray… - The Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Fin whale 20 Hz calls were detected, localized, and tracked using a 10 km aperture network
of three acoustic receivers deployed for 11 months in a Pacific Canadian fjord system. The …