Marine dredging is an excavation activity carried out worldwide by many industries. Concern
about the impact dredging has on marine life, including marine mammals (cetaceans …

Abstract Knowledge on microplastic (MP) ingestion by cetaceans is difficult to obtain. We
infer the potential for MP uptake by cetaceans from the occurrence of MP in prey species …

This is the second volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the
original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984). The present Volume is a …

Six baleen whale species are found in the temperate western North Atlantic Ocean, with
limited information existing on the distribution and movement patterns for most. There is …

The daily activity cycles of marine predators may be dictated in large part by the timing of
prey availability. For example, recent studies have observed diel periodicity in baleen whale …

RATIONALE In stable isotope research, the use of accurate, species‐specific diet‐tissue
discrimination factors (ie, Δ13C and Δ15N) is central to the estimation of trophic position …

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can provide crucial information into the bioaccumulation
and biomagnification of POPs in marine mammals. Muscle tissue samples were obtained for …

ABSTRACT 1 We summarize fin whale Balaenoptera physalus catch statistics, sighting data,
mark recoveries and acoustics data. The annual cycle of most populations of fin whales had …

The trophic position and the predator-prey relationship between the sperm whale Physeter
macrocephalus and the jumbo squid Dosidicus gigas were examined by measuring stable …

Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus has an anadromous life cycle that begins with
larvae that filter-feed in freshwater, followed by transformation into juveniles that migrate to …