Two major environmental challenges of our time are responding to climate change and
reversing biodiversity decline. Interventions that simultaneously tackle both challenges are …

Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science
often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by …

Microparticles, such as microplastics and microfibers, are ubiquitous in marine food webs.
Filter-feeding megafauna may be at extreme risk of exposure to microplastics, but neither the …

Climate change is affecting a wide range of global systems, with polar ecosystems
experiencing the most rapid change. Although climate impacts affect lower-trophic-level and …

The krill surplus hypothesis of unlimited prey resources available for Antarctic predators due
to commercial whaling in the 20th century has remained largely untested since the 1970s …

The great whales (baleen and sperm whales), through their massive size and wide
distribution, influence ecosystem and carbon dynamics. Whales directly store carbon in their …

Whales are an extraordinary study group for questions about ecology and evolution
because their combinations of extreme body sizes and unique foraging strategies are …

Fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus quoyi) of the Southern Hemisphere were brought to
near extinction by twentieth century industrial whaling. For decades, they had all but …

Ecosystem dynamics at the northwest Antarctic Peninsula are driven by interactions
between physical and biological processes. For example, baleen whale populations are …

Most baleen whales are capital breeders that use stored energy acquired on foraging
grounds to finance the costs of migration and reproduction on breeding grounds. Body …