Quantifying demographic parameters and patterns of social dynamics is fundamental to
understanding the population ecology of group-living animals and carries considerable …

Located in the eastern tropical Pacific, the Galápagos Islands are an oceanic insular
ecosystem subject to strong environmental variability driven by local and regional …

The global expansion of mariculture offers numerous potential benefits but may also pose a
threat to wildlife populations. There is currently only one commercial finfish mariculture …

Population estimates are required for effective conservation of many rare marine species,
but can be difficult to obtain. The critically endangered red handfish (Thymichthys politus) is …

Abstract consequences (Nery et al., 2008; Read, 2008). When cetaceans and fishing effort
overlap spatio-In Maui Nui, Hawai 'i, limited information is avail- temporally or exploit the …

It is challenging to collect robust, long-term datasets to properly monitor the viability and
social structure of large, long-lived animals, especially marine mammals. The present study …

Small, island-associated populations of cetaceans have evolved around numerous oceanic
islands, likely due to habitat discontinuities between nearshore and offshore waters …

Context Funding agencies are often unlikely to fund research on rarely-encountered species
and limited time is usually spent with such species when they are not the focus of research …

Introduction Recent minimum population estimates are critical for effective marine mammal
conservation, yet such estimates are often lacking at the stock or management level …

We need reliable information about the spatial and temporal distribution of mobile species to
effectively manage anthropogenic impacts to which they are exposed. Yet, we often cannot …