The massive number of seabirds (penguins and procellariiformes) and marine mammals
(cetaceans and pinnipeds)–referred to here as top predators–is one of the most iconic …

Fixed autonomous acoustic recording devices (autonomous recorders [ARs]) are defined as
any electronic recording system that acquires and stores acoustic data internally (ie, without …

Anthropogenic noise across the world's oceans threatens the ability of vocalizing marine
species to communicate. Some species vocalize at key life stages or whilst foraging, and …

Abstract The Perth Canyon is a submarine canyon off Rottnest Island in Western Australia. It
is rich in biodiversity in general, and important as a feeding and resting ground for great …

Blue whale Balaenoptera musculus songs can be divided into at least 10 types worldwide,
each type retaining the same units and similar phrasing over decades, unlike humpback …

Abstract The Arabian Gulf is one of the most adversely affected marine environments
worldwide, which results from combined pollution drivers including climate change, oil and …

Many animals rely on long-form communication, in the form of songs, for vital functions such
as mate attraction and territorial defence. We explored the prospect of improving automatic …

Linking individual and population scales is fundamental to many concepts in ecology [1],
including migration [2, 3]. This behavior is a critical [4] yet increasingly threatened [5] part of …

Archival bottom‐mounted audio recorders were deployed in nine different areas of the
western Mediterranean Sea, Strait of Gibraltar, and adjacent North Atlantic waters during …

Following the cessation of whaling, South Atlantic populations of humpback Megaptera
novaeangliae and some other baleen whale species are recovering, but there has been …