Search Results - "Wiley, David N"
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Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements
Published in Nature (London) (04-11-2021)“…Baleen whales influence their ecosystems through immense prey consumption and nutrient recycling 1 – 3 . It is difficult to accurately gauge the magnitude of…”
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Pose-gait analysis for cetacean biologging tag data
Published in PloS one (23-09-2022)“…Biologging tags are a key enabling tool for investigating cetacean behavior and locomotion in their natural habitat. Identifying and then parameterizing gait…”
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Acoustic behavior of humpback whale calves on the feeding ground: Comparisons across age and implications for vocal development
Published in PloS one (29-05-2024)“…Studying sound production at different developmental stages can provide insight into the processes involved in vocal ontogeny. Humpback whales (Megaptera…”
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Modeling speed restrictions to mitigate lethal collisions between ships and whales in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, USA
Published in Biological conservation (01-09-2011)“…► Lethality of collisions between whales and ships increases with speed and can be mitigated by slowing ships. ► Understanding the conservation benefit of…”
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Natural dimethyl sulfide gradients would lead marine predators to higher prey biomass
Published in Communications biology (01-02-2021)“…Finding prey is essential to survival, with marine predators hypothesised to track chemicals such as dimethyl sulfide (DMS) while foraging. Many predators are…”
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Deployment of biologging tags on free swimming large whales using uncrewed aerial systems
Published in Royal Society open science (19-04-2023)“…Suction-cup-attached biologging tags have led to major advances in our understanding of large whale behaviour. Getting close enough to a whale at sea to safely…”
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Energetic and physical limitations on the breaching performance of large whales
Published in eLife (11-03-2020)“…The considerable power needed for large whales to leap out of the water may represent the single most expensive burst maneuver found in nature. However, the…”
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From a calf's perspective: humpback whale nursing behavior on two US feeding grounds
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (04-03-2020)“…Nursing influences growth rate and overall health of mammals; however, the behavior is difficult to study in wild cetaceans because it occurs below the surface…”
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Caller identification and characterization of individual humpback whale acoustic behaviour
Published in Royal Society open science (01-03-2024)“…Acoustic recording tags provide fine-scale data linking acoustic signalling with individual behaviour; however, when an animal is in a group, it is challenging…”
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High collocation of sand lance and protected top predators: Implications for conservation and management
Published in Conservation science and practice (01-02-2021)“…Spatial relationships between predators and prey provide critical information for understanding and predicting climate‐induced shifts in ecosystem dynamics and…”
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Birds of a feather eat plastic together: high levels of plastic ingestion in Great Shearwater adults and juveniles across their annual migratory cycle
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science (05-01-2022)“…Limited work to date has examined plastic ingestion in highly migratory seabirds like Great Shearwaters ( ) across the their entire migratory range, although…”
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Bottom side-roll feeding by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the southern Gulf of Maine, U.S.A
Published in Marine mammal science (01-04-2014)“…Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for the variety and complexity of their feeding behaviors. Here we report on the use of synchronous motion…”
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Stable Isotope Analyses of Multiple Tissues of Great Shearwaters (Ardenna Gravis) Reveals Long-Term Dietary Stability, Short-Term Changes in Diet, and Can be Used as a Tool to Monitor Food Webs
Published in Diversity (Basel) (01-09-2019)“…The great shearwater (Ardenna gravis) is a common pelagic bird with a distribution that spans almost the entire Atlantic basin, which in conjunction with its…”
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‘Megapclicks’: acoustic click trains and buzzes produced during night-time foraging of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)
Published in Biology letters (2005) (22-10-2007)“…) exhibit a variety of foraging behaviours, but neither they nor any baleen whale are known to produce broadband clicks in association with feeding, as do many…”
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High collocation of sand lance and protected top predators: Implications for conservation and management
Published in Conservation science and practice (01-02-2021)“…After removing the duplicates, the number of humpback whales in spring 2015 decreased from 25 to 11 (Table 1, Figure S2) and the global index of collocation…”
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Legacy and Novel Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Juvenile Seabirds from the U.S. Atlantic Coast
Published in Environmental science & technology (20-10-2020)“…Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are anthropogenic, globally distributed chemicals. Legacy PFAS, including perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), have…”
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Evidence for ship noise impacts on humpback whale foraging behaviour
Published in Biology letters (2005) (01-08-2016)“…Noise from shipping activity in North Atlantic coastal waters has been steadily increasing and is an area of growing conservation concern, as it has the…”
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Evidence for acoustic communication among bottom foraging humpback whales
Published in Scientific reports (16-12-2014)“…Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ), a mysticete with a cosmopolitan distribution, demonstrate marked behavioural plasticity. Recent studies show…”
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Sensitivity of sand lance to shifting prey and hydrography indicates forthcoming change to the northeast US shelf forage fish complex
Published in ICES journal of marine science (01-07-2021)“…Abstract Northern sand lance (Ammodytes dubius) and Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) represent the dominant lipid-rich forage fish species throughout the…”
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Scaling of swimming performance in baleen whales
Published in Journal of experimental biology (23-10-2019)“…The scale dependence of locomotor factors has long been studied in comparative biomechanics, but remains poorly understood for animals at the upper extremes of…”
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