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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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Kun Li, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, Thomas Guilment, Tingting Tang and Christopher O. Tiemann
Passive acoustic monitoring has been successfully used to study deep-diving marine mammal populations. To assess regional population trends of sperm whales in the northern Gulf of Mexico (GoM), including impacts of the Deepwater Horizon platform oil spil...
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Charlotte Curé, Saana Isojunno, Marije L. Siemensma, Paul J. Wensveen, Célia Buisson, Lise D. Sivle, Benjamin Benti, Rune Roland, Petter H. Kvadsheim, Frans-Peter A. Lam and Patrick J. O. Miller
Controlled exposure experiments (CEEs) have demonstrated that naval pulsed active sonar (PAS) can induce costly behavioral responses in cetaceans similar to antipredator responses. New generation continuous active sonars (CAS) emit lower amplitude levels...
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Paul Nguyen Hong Duc, Dorian Cazau, Paul R. White, Odile Gérard, Joël Detcheverry, Frank Urtizberea and Olivier Adam
Visual observations of the marine biodiversity can be difficult in specific areas for different reasons, including weather conditions or a lack of observers. In such conditions, passive acoustics represents a potential alternative approach. The objective...
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John McCollough and Henry F. Check, Jr.
This paper presents empirical evidence which indicates that the introduction of petroleum based products on the American markets was a significant factor in reducing the demand for whale oil. As a result, the whaling industry, America?s 5th largest indus...
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