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Diet of mid-Atlantic Sowerby’s beaked whales Mesoplodon bidens
Pereira, José N.; Neves, Verónica C.; Clarke, D. C.; Prieto, Rui; Silva, Mónica A.; Cascão, Irma; Oliveira, Cláudia I.; Cruz, Maria J.Copyright © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ; The first mid-Atlantic diet of Mesoplodon beaked whales is presented, from ten Sowerby's Mesoplodon bidens stranded in the Azores region between 2002 and 2009. This doubles the worldwide number of stomachs sampled, and reveals new feeding habits for this species. The mean number of prey items per stomach was 85±89 (range: 12–238), with fish accounting for 9...
Designing a shipboard line transect survey to estimate cetacean abundance off t...
Faustino, Cláudia E. S.; Silva, Mónica A.; Marques, Tiago A.; Thomas, LenManagement schemes dedicated to the conservation of wildlife populations rely on the effective monitoring of population size, and this may require the accurate and precise estimation of this parameter. Line transect distance sampling can be an effective approach for estimating abundance. Little information is available regarding cetacean abundance in the Azores. This paper had two aims: 1) to design a line tran...
Historic and recent occurrences of pinnipeds in the Archipelago of the Azores
Silva, Mónica A.; Brito, Cristina; Santos, Sara V.; Barreiros, João P.Copyright © 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ; The Archipelago of the Azores (Portugal) is located between 37º and 41ºN and 25º and 31ºW and crosses the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. It is the most isolated archipelago in the Atlantic, situated 1600 km west of mainland Portugal and 3500 km from the eastern coast of the United States of America. At present, the only population of seals occurring in the Portuguese territor...
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