Long-finned pilot whale population diversity and structure in Atlantic waters assessed through biogeochemical and genetic markers

Acknowledgements. Cetacean samples were collected under the auspices of stranding monitoring programs run by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Vida Selvagem, the Coordinadora para o Estudio dos Mamíferos Mariños (supported by the regional government Xunta de Galicia), the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigat...

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Published in:Marine Ecology Progress Series
Main Authors: Monteiro, Silvia S., Mendez-Fernandez, Paula, Piertney, Stuart, Moffat, Colin F., Ferreira, Marisa, Vingada, Jose V., Lopez, Alfredo, Brownlow, Andrew, Jepson, Paul, Mikkelsen, Bjarni, Niemeyer, Misty, Carvalho, Jose Carlos, Pierce, Graham J.
Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Environment and Food Security, University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2015
Subjects:
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
stable isotopes
fatty acids
mitochondrial DNA
marine mammal
stock structure
globicephala melas
carbon-isotope fractionation
acid signature analysis
Western North-Atlantic
bottle-nosed dolphins
globicephala-melas
stable-isotopes
mitochondrial-DNA
habitat preferences
phocoena-phocoena
Harbor porpoises
QH301 Biology
QH301
Faroe Islands
Iceland
North Atlantic
Phocoena phocoena
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2164/7524
https://doi.org/10.3354/meps11455
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Summary:Acknowledgements. Cetacean samples were collected under the auspices of stranding monitoring programs run by the Sociedade Portuguesa de Vida Selvagem, the Coordinadora para o Estudio dos Mamíferos Mariños (supported by the regional government Xunta de Galicia), the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme and the Scottish Agriculture College Veterinary Science Division (jointly funded by Defra and the Devolved Governments of Scotland and Wales), the Marine Mammals Research Group of the Institute of Marine Research (Norway), the Museum of Natural History of the Faroe Islands and the International Fund for Animal Welfare Marine Mammal Rescue and Research Program (USA). The authors thank all the members of these institutions and organizations for their assistance with data and sample collection. S.S.M., P.M.F. and M.F. were supported by PhD grants from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (POPH/FSE ref SFRH/BD/ 38735/ 2007, SFRH/BD/36766/2007 and SFRH/BD/30240/ 2006, respectively). A.L. was supported by a postdoctoral grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (ref SFRH/BPD/82407/2011). The work related to strandings and tissue collection in Portugal was partially supported by the SafeSea project EEAGrants PT 0039 (supported by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism), the MarPro project Life09 NAT/PT/000038 (funded by the European Union program LIFE+) and the project CetSenti FCT RECI/AAG-GLO/0470/2012 (FCOMP- 01-0124-FEDER-027472) (funded by the program COMPETE and the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia). G.J.P. thanks the University of Aveiro and Caixa Geral de Depósitos (Portugal) for financial support. The authors acknowledge the assistance of the chemical analysts at Marine Scotland Science with the fatty acid analysis. Peer reviewed

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