A global overview of marine heatwaves in a changing climate

A Capotondi, RR Rodrigues, A Sen Gupta… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves have profoundly impacted marine ecosystems over large areas of the
world oceans, calling for improved understanding of their dynamics and predictability. Here …

Loss of Earth's old, wise, and large animals

RK Kopf, S Banks, LJN Brent, P Humphries, CJ Jolly… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Earth's old animals are in decline. Despite this, emerging research is revealing the vital
contributions of older individuals to cultural transmission, population dynamics, and …

Energetic cost of gestation and prenatal growth in humpback whales

M van Aswegen, A Szabo, JJ Currie… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Improving our understanding of energy allocation in reproduction is key for accurately
parameterizing bioenergetic models to assess population responses to environmental …

Maternal investment, body condition and calf growth in humpback whales

M van Aswegen, A Szabo, JJ Currie… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given recent declines in North Pacific humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)
reproductive output and calf survival, there is additional urgency to better understand how …

Catastrophic and persistent loss of common murres after a marine heatwave

HM Renner, JF Piatt, M Renner, BA Drummond… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Recent marine heatwaves have had pervasive effects on marine ecosystems, from declines
in primary production to die-offs of top predators. Seabird mortalities are often observed in …

New urban habitat for endangered humpback whales: San Francisco Bay

TM Markowitz, W Keener, MA Webber… - Aquatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As populations of large whales recover from whaling, species that forage and breed in
coastal waters, including the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae), increasingly …

Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics

ÉN O'Mahony, AL Sremba, EM Keen… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In coastal British Columbia, Canada, marine megafauna such as humpback whales
(Megaptera novaeangliae) and fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus velifera) have been …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Hervey Bay, Australia: a stopover for females early in their southern migration

L Brooks, T Franklin, W Franklin, P Harrison… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
In the Southern Hemisphere, humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) migrate along
the extended continental coastlines of Australia, South America, and South Africa. This study …

Trophic cascades and climate change

WJ Ripple, DN Whalen, C Wolf, Y Cao, J Schulte… - Food Webs, 2024 - Elsevier
The widespread loss of top predators and anthropogenic climate change are two major
environmental crises with pervasive impacts on ecosystems. Climate-related factors such as …

[HTML][HTML] Variation in Isotopic Trophic Niche of Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) and Shortraker Rockfish (Sebastes borealis) in the Northeast Pacific

R Wilson, TJ Hatcher, AD Suchomel, MC Belk - Fishes, 2024 - mdpi.com
Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria, Anoplopomatidae) and shortraker rockfish (Sebastes
borealis, Sebastidae) co-occur in deepwater marine habitats in the northeast Pacific. Both …