Dear all, here are some new publications of week 31/ 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> This list is rather long today because of the Special Issue "Marine Mammals" of the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (JMBA). Because this issue is the result of a cooperation of Cambridge Journals and the European Cetacean Society, ECS members will have free access to the PDF files of this issue. Please note the following call for contributions by Graham Pierce, ECS Editor: There will be a 2009 special issue of JMBA on marine mammals and it remains open for contributions. To be fair to authors who already submitted papers, if there are too many papers for the special issue, those papers submitted latest will be held back for a future issue. While ECS especially welcomes papers based on presentations at the ECS conference, all original research papers and reviews on marine mammals will be considered for publication by the journal and there is no discrimination on the basis of whether or not the work was presented at ECS. 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 Aguilar de Soto, N. et al. (2008): Cheetahs of the deep sea: deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands). Journal of Animal Ecology 77(5): 936 - 947 . Aïssi, M. et al. (2008): Large-scale seasonal distribution of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the central Mediterranean Sea. JMBA 88(6): 1253-1261. Azzellino, A. et al. (2008): Biological consequences of global warming: does sea surface temperature affect cetacean distribution in the western Ligurian Sea? JMBA 88(6): 1145-1152. Canning, S.J. et al. (2008): Seasonal distribution of white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) in UK waters with new information on diet and habitat use. JMBA 88(6): 1159-1166. Caon, G. et al. (2008): Milk composition of franciscana dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei) from Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. JMBA 88(6): 1099-1101. Culloch, R.M. and K.P. Robinson (2008): Bottlenose dolphins using coastal regions adjacent to a Special Area of Conservation in north-east Scotland. JMBA 88(6): 1237-1243. de Carvalho, C.E.V. et al. (2008): Heavy metal distribution in two cetacean species from Rio de Janeiro State, south-eastern Brazil. JMBA 88(6): 1117-1120. de Oliveira, L.V. and E.L.A. Monteiro-Filho (2008): Individual identification and habitat use of the estuarine dolphin Sotalia guianensis (Cetacea: Delphinidae) in Cananéia, south-eastern Brazil, using video images. JMBA 88(6): 1199-1205. Díaz López, B. et al. (2008): Diving activity of a solitary wild free ranging bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). JMBA 88(6): 1153-1157. Dulau-Drouot, V., V. Boucaud, and B. Rota (2008): Cetacean diversity off La Réunion Island (France). JMBA 88(6): 1263-1272. Dunshea, G. et al.(2008): Pseudogenes and DNA-based diet analyses: a cautionary tale from a relatively well sampled predator-prey system. Bulletin of Entomological Research 98(3): 239-248. Gannier, A. and J. Epinat (2008): Cuvier's beaked whale distribution in the Mediterranean Sea: results from small boat surveys 1996-2007. JMBA 88(6): 1245-1251. Gomes Pereira, J.N.D.S. (2008): Daily species checklist from whale-watching-studying the research potential with an Azorean case study. JMBA 88(6): 1283-1288. Goméz de Segura, A., P.S. Hammond, and J.A. Raga (2008): Influence of environmental factors on small cetacean distribution in the Spanish Mediterranean. JMBA 88(6): 1185-1192. Goodwin, L. and C. Speedie (2008): Relative abundance, density and distribution of the harbour porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena) along the west coast of the UK. JMBA 88(6): 1221-1228. Guimarães Corrêa Sholl, T. et al. (2008): Taxonomic identification of dolphin love charms commercialized in the Amazonian region through the analysis of cytochrome b DNA. JMBA 88(6): 1207-1210. Huggenberger, S. (2008): The size and complexity of dolphin brains-a paradox? JMBA 88(6): 1103-1108. Koopman, H.N. and Z.P. Zahorodny (2008): Life history constrains biochemical development in the highly specialized odontocete echolocation system. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 275(1649): 2327-2334. Kyhn, L.A. et al. (2008): Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) static acoustic monitoring: laboratory detection thresholds of T-PODs are reflected in field sensitivity. JMBA 88(6): 1085-1091. MacLeod, C.D. et al. (2008): Temperature-based summer habitat partitioning between white-beaked and common dolphins around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. JMBA 88(6): 1193-1198. Miller, L.J., M. Solanqi, and S.A. Kuczaj II (2008): Immediate response of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to high-speed personal watercraft in the Mississippi Sound. JMBA 88(6): 1139-1143. Morete, M.E. et al. (2008): Fluctuating abundance of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in a calving ground off coastal Brazil. JMBA 88(6): 1229-1235. Moulins, A. et al. (2008): Partitioning of the Pelagos Sanctuary (north-western Mediterranean Sea) into hotspots and coldspots of cetacean distributions. JMBA 88(6): 1273-1281. Pérez-Vallazza, C. et al.(2008): Cetacean diversity at the west coast of La Palma Island (Canary Islands). JMBA 88(6): 1289-1296. Pierpoint, C. (2008): Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) foraging strategy at a high energy, near-shore site in south-west Wales, UK. JMBA 88(6): 1167-1173. Rossi-Santos, M.R. et al. (2008): Descriptive parameters of pulsed calls for the spinner dolphin, Stenella longirostris, in the Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil. JMBA 88(6): 1093-1097. Rosso, M., A. Moulins, and M. Würtz(2008): Colour patterns and pigmentation variability on striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba in north-western Mediterranean Sea. JMBA 88(6): 1211-1219. Santos, M.B. et al. (2008): Strandings of striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba in Scottish waters (1992-2003) with notes on the diet of this species. JMBA 88(6): 1175-1183. Walton, M.J. et al. (2008): Fatty acid characterization of lipid fractions from blubber biopsies of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus located around the Azores. JMBA 88(6): 1109-1115. Evans, P.G.H., S. Panigada, and G.J. Pierce (2008): Integrating science and management for marine mammal conservation. JMBA 88(6): 1081-1083. PINNIPEDIA Fowler, M.A. et al. (2008): Hormonal regulation of glucose clearance in lactating northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris). Journal of Experimental Biology 211(18): 2943-2949. Nollens, H.H. et al. (2008): In vitro susceptibility of sea lion poxvirus to cidofovir. Antiviral Research 80(1): 77-80. OTHER MARINE MAMMALS Oliveira de Meirelles, A.C. (2008): Mortality of the Antillean manatee, Trichechus manatus manatus, in Ceará State, north-eastern Brazil. JMBA 88(6): 1133-1137. Valentine, K. et al. (2008): Ancient DNA reveals genotypic relationships among Oregon populations of the sea otter (Enhydra lutris). Conservation Genetics 9(4): 933-938. -- --> jan.herrmann -at - cetacea.de