A review of impacts of marine dredging activities on marine mammals

VLG Todd, IB Todd, JC Gardiner… - ICES Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Marine dredging is an excavation activity carried out worldwide by many industries. Concern
about the impact dredging has on marine life, including marine mammals (cetaceans …

Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus

NL Vollmer, E Ashe, RL Brownell Jr… - Marine Mammal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary relationships among cetaceans within the family Delphinidae have been
difficult to resolve due to the high number of species and their relatively rapid radiation. This …

Nowhere to go: noise impact assessments for marine mammal populations with high site fidelity

KA Forney, BL Southall, E Slooten, S Dawson… - Endangered species …, 2017 - int-res.com
As awareness of the effects of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals has grown,
research has broadened from evaluating physiological responses, including injury and …

CLICK COMMUNICATION IN HARBOUR PORPOISES PHOCOENA PHOCOENA

KT Clausen, M Wahlberg, K Beedholm, S Deruiter… - Bioacoustics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Sound plays an important role for toothed whales in foraging and communication. However,
little is known about acoustic communication in the toothed whale species that only produce …

Narrow acoustic field of view drives frequency scaling in toothed whale biosonar

FH Jensen, M Johnson, M Ladegaard, DM Wisniewska… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Toothed whales are apex predators varying in size from 40-kg porpoises to 50-ton sperm
whales that all forage by emitting high-amplitude ultrasonic clicks and listening for weak …

Click communication in wild harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)

PM Sørensen, DM Wisniewska, FH Jensen… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Social delphinids employ a vocal repertoire of clicks for echolocation and whistles for
communication. Conversely, the less social and acoustically cryptic harbour porpoises …

Review of underwater and in-air sounds emitted by Australian and Antarctic marine mammals

C Erbe, R Dunlop, KCS Jenner, MNM Jenner… - Acoustics Australia, 2017 - Springer
The study of marine soundscapes is a growing field of research. Recording hardware is
becoming more accessible; there are a number of off-the-shelf autonomous recorders that …

Variations in echolocation click characteristics of finless porpoise in response to day/night and absence/presence of vessel noise

M Ogawa, SS Kimura - Plos One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Small odontocetes produce echolocation clicks to feed and navigate, making it an essential
function for their survival. Recently, the effect of vessel noise on small odontocetes behavior …

Echolocation in sympatric Peale's dolphins (Lagenorhynchus australis) and Commerson's dolphins (Cephalorhynchus commersonii) producing narrow-band high …

LA Kyhn, FH Jensen, K Beedholm… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.biologists.com
An increasing number of smaller odontocetes have recently been shown to produce
stereotyped narrow-band high-frequency (NBHF) echolocation clicks. Click source …

Wonky whales: the evolution of cranial asymmetry in cetaceans

EJ Coombs, J Clavel, T Park, M Churchill, A Goswami - BMC biology, 2020 - Springer
Background Unlike most mammals, toothed whale (Odontoceti) skulls lack symmetry in the
nasal and facial (nasofacial) region. This asymmetry is hypothesised to relate to …