Research in ecology and wildlife biology remains crucial for increasing our knowledge and
improving species management and conservation in the midst of the current biodiversity …

Wild animals are increasingly exposed to human‐induced threats in the ocean realm.
Cetacean species, as predators and biomonitoring models, are subjected to a variety of …

Deep-habitat cetaceans are generally difficult to study, leading to a limited knowledge of
their population. This paper assesses the differential distribution patterns of three deep …

In oceanic ecosystems, the nature of barriers to gene flow and the processes by which
populations may become isolated are different from the terrestrial environment, and less well …

Key Words: whales, dolphins, injury, disease, human impact, management The Strait of
Gibraltar is a heavily used marine area, with intense fishing operations and one of the …

We thank the crew of the R/V Polarstern and the helicopter team of expedition PS112 for
facilitating our data collection. Special thanks go to the cruise leader Bettina Meyer for …

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) is one of the largest and most widely distributed
marine mammals. The Mediterranean population, classified as Endangered in the IUCN …

Female and immature sperm whales form stable social units in tropical to subtropical waters.
One such area is the Azores archipelago, where details of their year‐round occurrence and …

We present an automatic program of blue whale photo-identification for mobile devices. The
proposed technique works in the wavelet domain to reduce the image size and the …

Photo-identification is a staple tool used in cetacean conservation studies since the 1970s to
monitor individuals on a regional and ocean basin-wide scale to infer critical information …