Dear all, here are some new publications of week 34/ 2008, which haven't been announced on MARMAM earlier AFAIK. By clicking the following link you are guided to a website, where the following references are linked to their according journal homepages. There you can find abstracts and contact information: <http://www.mmbib.com/news.php> Please do not contact MARMAM, the MARMAM editors or me for reprints. Thank you. Thanks to all of you who sent in reprints to be included in the weekly announcements. Kindest Regards, Jan Herrmann CETACEA Christensen, J.T. and K. Richardson (2008): Stable isotope evidence of long-term changes in the North Sea food web structure. Marine Ecology Progress Series 368(): 1-8. DeRuiter, S.L. and A.R. Solow (2008): A rotation test for behavioural point-process data. Animal Behaviour 76(4): 1429-1434. Erbe, C. (2008): Critical ratios of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) and masked signal duration. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(4): 2216-2223. Kraus, S.D. and R.M. Rolland (2007): The Urban Whale. North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads. ISBN 0674023277. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. Magalhães, F.A. et al. (2008): Cetacean diversity on the Parnaiba Delta, Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Biology 68(3): 545-551. Miksis-Olds, J.L. et al. (2008): Information theory analysis of Australian humpback whale song. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 124(4): 2385-2393. O'Brien, J.K. et al. (2008): Semen collection, characterisation and artificial insemination in the beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) using liquid-stored spermatozoa. Reproduction, Fertility and Development 20(7): 770-783. O'Shea, T.J. (2008): The Urban Whale: North Atlantic Right Whales at the Crossroads, by S. D. Kraus and R. M. Rolland (eds.). Journal of Mammalogy 89(5): 1328. Stringer, C.B. et al. (2008):
From the Cover: Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(38): 14319-14324.
PINNIPEDIA Boehme, L. et al. (2008): Monitoring Drake Passage with elephant seals: Frontal structures and snapshots of transport. Limnology and Oceanography 53(5, part 2): 2350-2360. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Tinker, M.T., D.F. Doak, and J.A. Estes (2008): Using demography and movement behavior to predict range expansion of the southern sea otter. Ecological Applications 18(7): 1781-1794. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de