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Growth in marine mammals: a review of growth patterns, composition and energy investment

2023
Open Access Peer Reviewed Research Article

Conservation Physiology

Adamczak, S.K., McHuron, E.A., Christiansen, F., Dunkin, R., McMahon, CR., Noren, S., Pirotta, E., Rosen, D., Sumich, J., Costa, D.P.

Metrics of structural growth and energy storage used to assess population health. Documentation of energy cost of tissue deposition poorly understood within energy budgets. Paper presents...
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Keywords: Body size, Growth, Marine mammal

Aspects of the biology of the harbour porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, from British waters.

1995
Open Access Article

Whales, seals, fish and man

Lockyer, C.,

Specimens of harbour porpoises, Phocoena phocoena, from both strandings and bycatch in fisheries around the United Kingdom between 1985 and 1994 have been examined. Full autopsies...
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Keywords: Growth, Harbour porpoise, Morphology