Zoeken
Zoeken kan via de modus 'eenvoudig zoeken' (één veld) of uitgebreid via 'geavanceerd zoeken' (meerdere velden). Zo kan je bv. zoeken op een combinatie van een auteursnaam (auteur), een jaartal (jaar) en een documenttype.
Boekenmand
Nuttige resultaten kan je aanvinken en toevoegen aan een mandje. De inhoud hiervan kan je exporteren of afdrukken (naar bv. PDF).
RSS
Op de hoogte blijven van nieuw toegevoegde publicaties binnen uw interessegebied? Dit kan door een RSS-feed (?) te maken van jouw zoekopdracht.
nieuwe zoekopdracht
Beached bachelors: an extensive study on the largest recorded sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event in the North Sea
IJsseldijk, L.L.; van Neer, A.; Deaville, R.; Begeman, L.; van de Bildt, M.; van den Brand, J.M.A.; Brownlow, A.; Czeck, R.; Dabin, W.; ten Doeschate, M.; Herder, V.; Herr, H.; Ijzer, J.; Jauniaux, T.; Jensen, L.F.; Jepson, P.D.; Jo, W.K.; Lakemeyer, J.; Lehnert, K.; Leopold, M.F.; Osterhaus, A.; Perkins, M.W.; Piatkowski, U.; Prenger-Berninghoff, E.; Pund, R.; Wohlsein, P.; Gröne, A.; Siebert, U. (2018). Beached bachelors: an extensive study on the largest recorded sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event in the North Sea. PLoS One 13(8): e0201221. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201221
In: PLoS One. Public Library of Science: San Francisco. ISSN 1932-6203; e-ISSN 1932-6203, meer
|   |
| Trefwoorden |
ANE, North Sea
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Noordzee [Marine Regions]
Marien/Kust |
| Auteurs | | Top |
- IJsseldijk, L.L.
- van Neer, A.
- Deaville, R.
- Begeman, L.
- van de Bildt, M.
- van den Brand, J.M.A.
- Brownlow, A.
- Czeck, R.
- Dabin, W.
- ten Doeschate, M.
|
- Herder, V.
- Herr, H.
- Ijzer, J.
- Jauniaux, T.
- Jensen, L.F.
- Jepson, P.D.
- Jo, W.K.
- Lakemeyer, J.
- Lehnert, K.
|
- Leopold, M.F.
- Osterhaus, A.
- Perkins, M.W.
- Piatkowski, U.
- Prenger-Berninghoff, E.
- Pund, R.
- Wohlsein, P.
- Gröne, A.
- Siebert, U.
|
| Abstract |
Between the 8th January and the 25th February 2016, the largest sperm whale Physeter macrocephalus mortality event ever recorded in the North Sea occurred with 30 sperm whales stranding in five countries within six weeks. All sperm whales were immature males. Groups were stratified by size, with the smaller animals stranding in the Netherlands, and the largest in England. The majority (n = 27) of the stranded animals were necropsied and/or sampled, allowing for an international and comprehensive investigation into this mortality event. The animals were in fair to good nutritional condition and, aside from the pathologies caused by stranding, did not exhibit significant evidence of disease or trauma. Infectious agents were found, including various parasite species, several bacterial and fungal pathogens and a novel alphaherpesvirus. In nine of the sperm whales a variety of marine litter was found. However, none of these findings were considered to have been the primary cause of the stranding event. Potential anthropogenic and environmental factors that may have caused the sperm whales to enter the North Sea were assessed. Once sperm whales enter the North Sea and head south, the water becomes progressively shallower (<40 m), making this region a global hotspot for sperm whale strandings. We conclude that the reasons for sperm whales to enter the southern North Sea are the result of complex interactions of extrinsic environmental factors. As such, these large mortality events seldom have a single ultimate cause and it is only through multidisciplinary, collaborative approaches that potentially multifactorial large-scale stranding events can be effectively investigated. |
IMIS is ontwikkeld en wordt gehost door het VLIZ.
