Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Project for bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus from the southeastern USA. I. Infectious diseases

GD Bossart, P Fair, AM Schaefer, JS Reif - Diseases of Aquatic …, 2017 - int-res.com
From 2003 to 2015, 360 free-ranging Atlantic bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus
inhabiting the Indian River Lagoon (IRL, n= 246), Florida, and coastal waters of Charleston …

Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) as A Sentinel for Exposure to Mercury in Humans: Closing the Loop

JS Reif, AM Schaefer, GD Bossart - Veterinary Sciences, 2015 - mdpi.com
Mercury (Hg) is a ubiquitous global contaminant with important public health implications.
Mercury is released from a variety of anthropogenic, industrial processes, enters the earth's …

Ranging patterns of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in Barataria Bay, Louisiana, following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

RS Wells, LH Schwacke, TK Rowles… - Endangered Species …, 2017 - int-res.com
Common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus were present in Barataria Bay, Louisiana,
USA, before, during, and after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Health assessments …

Photo-identification capture-mark-recapture techniques for estimating abundance of bay, sound and estuary populations of bottlenose dolphins along the US East …

P Rosel, K Mullin, L Garrison, L Schwacke… - 2011 - repository.oceanbestpractices.org
Bay, sound and estuary (BSE) populations of bottlenose dolphins are common along the US
Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts. NOAA Fisheries currently identifies 9 BSE stocks in the …

Expansion of harmful brown tides caused by the pelagophyte, Aureoumbra lagunensis DeYoe et Stockwell, to the US east coast

CJ Gobler, F Koch, Y Kang, DL Berry, YZ Tang, M Lasi… - Harmful Algae, 2013 - Elsevier
Brown tides caused by the pelagophyte Aureoumbra lagunensis DeYoe et Stockwell have
formed ecosystem disruptive algal blooms in shallow lagoons of Texas (TX), USA, for more …

High site-fidelity in common bottlenose dolphins despite low salinity exposure and associated indicators of compromised health

R Takeshita, BC Balmer, F Messina, ES Zolman… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
More than 2,000 common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) inhabit the Barataria Bay
Estuarine System in Louisiana, USA, a highly productive estuary with variable salinity driven …

Social communities and spatiotemporal dynamics of association patterns in estuarine bottlenose dolphins

EM Titcomb, G O'Corry‐Crowe, EF Hartel… - Marine Mammal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Network analysis has recently been used to delve into the dynamics of cetacean sociality.
Few studies, however, have addressed how habitat shape influences sociality, specifically …

Lobomycosis in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from the Indian River Lagoon, Florida: Estimation of Prevalence, Temporal Trends, and Spatial Distribution

ME Murdoch, JS Reif, M Mazzoil, SD McCulloch… - EcoHealth, 2008 - Springer
Lobomycosis (lacaziosis) is a chronic fungal disease of the skin that affects only dolphins
and humans. Previous studies have shown a high prevalence of lobomycosis in bottlenose …

[PDF][PDF] Anthropogenic Impacts on the Welfare of Wild Marine Mammals.

AJ de Vere, MK Lilley, EE Frick - Aquatic Mammals, 2018 - aquaticmammalsjournal.org
Whaling Commission (2011) has considered whales sentient on the basis that they have
some level of Marine mammal welfare has most frequently been awareness, have some …

Salinity and Water Temperature as Predictors of Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Encounter Rates in Upper Galveston Bay, Texas

VJ Mintzer, KL Fazioli - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) that inhabit urban estuaries like Galveston Bay,
Texas, are exposed to cumulative stressors including pollution, fisheries, shipping …