Several North Atlantic breeding seabirds, such as the Northern Gannet Morus bassanus,
use Western Iberian Waters for wintering and migration. In this study, we aimed at producing …

Whaling in Ireland began in the 14th century and ended in 1976. This paper focuses on
industrial shore-based whaling carried out from two stations in Co. Mayo (Iniskea and …

1. Bottlenose dolphin photo-identification data were compiled from western Scotland to
identify individuals and ultimately investigate population size, demographic parameters …

Standardised boat surveys and photo-identification of individual bottlenose dolphins
(Tursiops truncatus) were used to estimate the abundance of bottlenose dolphins using the …

This paper describes the tensions between the legal requirements for conservation and the
most beneficial biological practice for mobile transnational marine species, using the …

This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of mammalian biology,
including taxonomy, global and European distribution, genetics, morphology, life history …

The realised distribution of species in disturbed environments depends upon the degree to
which their optimum habitat has been altered by impacts arising from human pressures. We …

Sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus and long-finned pilot whales Globicephala melas
are the most abundant species among the community of deep-diving cetaceans occurring off …

Sowerby's beaked whale is a deep-diving cetacean species specialized to live in the deep
waters of the North Atlantic, including offshore Irish waters. Sightings of Sowerby's beaked …

The need for monitoring programmes at large spatial and temporal scales aimed at
assessing changes in species distributions and abundances, and to predict long-term …