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Tilen Genov

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Epidemiological pattern of tattoo skin disease: a potential general health indicator for cetaceans

2009

The presence of tattoo skin disease (TSD) was examined in 1392 free-ranging and dead odontocetes comprising 17 species from the Americas, Europe, South Africa, New Zealand and Greenland. We investigated whether TSD prevalence varied with sex, age and health status. TSD was encountered in cetaceans from the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as well as in those from the North, Mediterranean and Tasman Seas. No clear patterns related to geography and host phylogeny were detected, except that prevalence of TSD in juveniles and, in 2 species (dusky dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus and Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis), in adults was remarkably high in samples from Peru. Environmental factors …

Maleendocrine systemZoologyCetaceaPhocoenaPoxviridae InfectionsDelphinus delphisAquatic ScienceSkin DiseasesAnimal DiseasesCetacea [whales dolphins and porpoises]Age DistributionSex FactorsCephalorhynchus eutropiabiology.animalAnimalsEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsbiologyEcologyAquatic animalPhocoena spinipinnisbiology.organism_classificationDusky dolphinFemaleCetaceaChordopoxvirinaePorpoise
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Assessing cetacean surveys throughout the Mediterranean Sea: a gap analysis in environmental space

2018

Heterogeneous data collection in the marine environment has led to large gaps in our knowledge of marine species distributions. To fill these gaps, models calibrated on existing data may be used to predict species distributions in unsampled areas, given that available data are sufficiently representative. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of mapping cetacean densities across the entire Mediterranean Sea using models calibrated on available survey data and various environmental covariates. We aggregated 302,481 km of line transect survey effort conducted in the Mediterranean Sea within the past 20 years by many organisations. Survey coverage was highly heterogeneous geographicall…

0106 biological sciencesMediterranean climateQH301 Biologylcsh:Medicine010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesMarine speciesArticleFish surveys -- Mediterranean SeaQH301Environmental spaceMediterranean seaFishes -- Mediterranean SeaSDG 14 - Life Below Water14. Life underwaterTransectlcsh:ScienceGEMultidisciplinaryData collection010604 marine biology & hydrobiologylcsh:RDASGap analysis (conservation)[SDE]Environmental SciencesSurvey data collectionEnvironmental sciencelcsh:QPhysical geographyCetacea populations -- Mediterranean SeaGE Environmental Sciences
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2019

Heterogeneous data collection in the marine environment has led to large gaps in our knowledge of marine species distributions. To fill these gaps, models calibrated on existing data may be used to predict species distributions in unsampled areas, given that available data are sufficiently representative. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of mapping cetacean densities across the entire Mediterranean Sea using models calibrated on available survey data and various environmental covariates. We aggregated 302,481 km of line transect survey effort conducted in the Mediterranean Sea within the past 20 years by many organisations. Survey coverage was highly heterogeneous geographicall…

cetaceansmedicine and health careGap analysisenvironmental spaceextrapolationLife SciencesMedicine
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