Mobile phones and other geolocated devices have produced unprecedented volumes of
data on human movement. Analysis of pooled individual human trajectories using big data …

Collision with ships is a significant cause of mortality among endangered whales. Collision
lethality increases with vessel speed and mitigation includes slowing ships in whale dense …

The inland waters around southern Vancouver Island and northern Washington State,
known as the Salish Sea, host critical habitat for endangered southern resident killer whales …

International shipping, although considered a safe and environment-friendly form of
transportation, has many direct and indirect impacts on cetaceans in many ways, particularly …

Studies of ship strikes on whales often focus on large vessels (> 20 m), with attention to their
speeds and the resulting risk of lethality. Smaller coastal vessels also co‐occur with whales …

The rapid recovery of the Australian humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) population
and parallel increase in maritime traffic, has increased the spatial overlap between whales …

Photo-identification methods depend on markings that are stable over time. Using a large
dataset of photographs taken over a 31-year period, we evaluate the reliability, rate of …

The objective of this paper was to investigate and illustrate how insights gained from
experience managing human activities in order to protect North Atlantic right whales …

Vessel strikes are a major threat impacting large whales globally. Juvenile whales often
represent a high proportion of lethal vessel strikes, but few studies have investigated …

Abstract The Pelagos Sanctuary is the only pelagic marine protected area in the
Mediterranean Sea, instituted for the conservation of cetaceans. Considering the number …