Defining the appropriate scale over which to conduct a study in the marine environment is
critical to achieving appropriate scientific, management, mitigation and conservation …

Colonial seabirds are relatively easy to observe, count, measure and manipulate, and
consequently have long been used as models for testing ecological hypotheses. A …

The science needed to understand highly migratory marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle
species is not adequately addressed by individual data collections developed for a single …

Analyses of the foraging behavior of large cetaceans have generally focused on either
correlations with environmental conditions at regional scales or observations of surface …

Including ecology in biodiversity data management systems requires classifications of
habitat terms that provide standard definitions and indicate their relationships. In addition to …

One common approach to marine conservation is the designation of marine protected areas
(MPAs). Marine mammals have been proposed as a target species for such areas due to …

Although humpback whales are among the best-studied of the large whales, population
boundaries in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) have remained largely untested. We assess …

An understanding of the distribution and habitat associations of far-ranging marine predators
is being increasingly applied to protect these species from anthropogenic threats at sea (eg …

Cetaceans are mobile and spend long periods underwater. Because of this, modelling their
habitat could be subject to a serious problem of false absence. Furthermore, extensive …

For closely related sympatric species to coexist, they must differ to some degree in their
ecological requirements or niches (eg, diets) to avoid interspecific competition. Baleen …