• Anisakid nematode species identification in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the North Sea, Baltic Sea and North Atlantic using RFLP analysis. 

      Lakemeyer, Jan; Siebert, Ursula; Abdulmawjood, Amir; Ryeng, Kathrine; Ijsseldijkd, , Lonneke L; Lehnert, Kristina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) are the only native cetacean species in the German North and Baltic Seas and the final host of Anisakis (A.) simplex, which infects their first and second gastric compartments and may ...
    • Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management 

      Hammond, Philip S.; Macleod, Kelly; Berggren, Per; Borchers, David L.; Burt, Louise; Cañadas, Ana; Desportes, Geneviève; Donovan, Greg P.; Gilles, Anita; Gillespie, Douglas; Gordon, Jonathan; Hiby, Lex; Kuklik, Iwona; Leaper, Russell; Lehnert, Kristina; Leopold, Mardik; Lovell, Phil; Øien, Nils; Paxton, C. G. M.; Ridoux, Vincent; Rogan, Emer; Samarra, Filipa; Scheidat, Meike; Sequeira, Marina; Siebert, Ursula; Skov, Henrik; Swift, René; Tasker, Mark L.; Teilmann, Jonas; Van Canneyt, Olivier; Vázquez, José Antonio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-06-11)
      The European Union (EU) Habitats Directive requires Member States to monitor and maintain at favourable conservation status those species identified to be in need of protection, including all cetaceans. In July 2005 we ...
    • Evolutionary history and seascape genomics of Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) across environmental gradients in the North Atlantic and adjacent waters 

      Celemín, Enrique; Autenrieth, Marijke; Roos, Anna; Pawliczka, Iwona; Quintela, Maria; Lindstrøm, Ulf Ove; Benke, Harald; Siebert, Ursula; Lockyer, Christina; Berggren, Per; Özturk, A. Amaha; Özturk, Bayram; Lesage, Véronique; Tiedemann, Ralph (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) is a highly mobile cetacean species primarily occurring in coastal and shelf waters across the Northern hemisphere. It inhabits heterogeneous seascapes broadly varying in salinity ...
    • Pathological findings in bycaught harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from the coast of Northern Norway 

      Ryeng, Kathrine; Lakemeyer, Jan; Roller, Marco; Wohlsein, Peter; Siebert, Ursula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Due to little prior knowledge, the present study aims to investigate the health status of bycaught harbour porpoises from the northernmost Arctic Norwegian coastline. Gross, histopathological and parasitological investigations ...
    • A risk assessment review of mercury exposure in Arctic marine and terrestrial mammals 

      Dietz, Rune; Letcher, Robert J.; Aars, Jon; Andersen, Magnus; Boltunov, Andrei; Born, Erik W.; Ciesielski, Tomasz Maciej; Das, Krishna; Dastnai, Sam; Derocher, Andrew E.; Desforges, Jean-Pierre; Eulaers, Igor; Ferguson, Steve; Hallanger, Ingeborg G.; Heide-Jørgensen, Mads P.; Heimbürger-Boavida, Lars-Eric; Hoekstra, Paul F.; Jenssen, Bjørn Munro; Kohler, Stephen Gustav; Larsen, Martin M.; Lindstrøm, Ulf Ove; Lippold, Anna; Morris, Adam; Nabe-Nielsen, Jacob; Nielsen, Nynne H.; Peacock, Elizabeth E.; Pinzone, Marianna; Rigét, Frank F.; Rosing-Asvid, Aqqalu; Routti, Heli Anna Irmeli; Siebert, Ursula; Stenson, Garry; Stern, Gary; Strand, Jakob; Søndergaard, Jens; Treu, Gabriele; Víkingsson, Gisli A.; Wang, Feiyue; Welker, Jeffrey M.; Wiig, Øystein; Wilson, Simon J.; Sonne, Christian (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      There has been a considerable number of reports on Hg concentrations in Arctic mammals since the last Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) effort to review biological effects of the exposure to mercury (Hg) ...