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Xiaoyu Huang, Mingming Liu, Samuel T. Turvey, Mingli Lin and Songhai Li
Marine mammals are a diverse group of aquatic animals that exhibit wide variation in body size, living conditions, breeding habitat, social behaviour and phylogeny. Although case studies about prenatal investment in cetaceans and pinnipeds have been inve...
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Silvana Neves, Yann Doh, Simona Sacchini, Eric Delory, Antonio Fernández and Ayoze Castro-Alonso
The MARCET project (MAC/1.1b/149) aims to monitor the health status of resident cetaceans in Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) of particular interest for whale-watching in Macaronesia. This study, performed in the Canary Islands, Spain, used an autono...
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Giulia Cipriano, Francesca Cornelia Santacesaria, Carmelo Fanizza, Carla Cherubini, Roberto Crugliano, Rosalia Maglietta, Pasquale Ricci and Roberto Carlucci
This study aims to provide information on the site fidelity, residency patterns and the social structures of bottlenose dolphins occurring in the Gulf of Taranto in order to supply effective indications supporting the future management and conservation m...
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Francesca Terranova, Alessandra Raffa, Stefano Floridia, Clara Monaco and Livio Favaro
Cetacean bycatch is increasing worldwide and poses a threat to the conservation of several delphinids. The bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is frequently involved in bycatch incidents, due to its coastal distribution and opportunistic behaviour. T...
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Pasquale Ricci, Elisabetta Manea, Giulia Cipriano, Daniela Cascione, Gianfranco D?Onghia, Maurizio Ingrosso, Carmelo Fanizza, Porzia Maiorano, Angelo Tursi and Roberto Carlucci
Understanding of cetaceans? trophic role and the quantification of their impacts on the food web is a critical task, especially when data on their prey are linked to deep-sea ecosystems, which are often exposed to excessive exploitation of fishery resour...
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