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Encounter rate and relative abundance of eight cetaceans off the central
Catalan coast (Northwestern Mediterranean sea) . Oriol Giralt Paradell, Sílvia Juncà, Ricard Marcos, Anna Conde Gimenez, Joan Giménez. Marine Environmental Research,
Volume 191 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2023.106166

 Concentrations of bisphenols and phthalate esters in the muscle of Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba). Morgana Vighi, Asunción Borrell, Wissam Sahyoun, Sopheak Net, Alex Aguilar, Baghdad Ouddane, Odei Garcia-Garin,Concentrations of bisphenols and phthalate esters in the muscle of Mediterranean striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba),Chemosphere, Volume 339 (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139686.

 Assessment of the interactions between cetaceans and fisheries at the south of the Cetacean Migration Corridor and neighboring waters (Western Mediterranean). Izquierdo Serrano, Mar & Revuelta, Ohiana & Míguez-Lozano, Raúl & Gozalbes, Patricia & Ruiz García, David & Raga, Juan & Tomás, Jesús. (2022). . Frontiers in Marine Science. 9. 10.3389/fmars.2022.981638. Frontiers in Marine Science (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.860242

 Spatial Distribution and Encounter Rates of Delphinids and Deep Diving Cetaceans in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea of Turkey and the Extent of Overlap With Areas of Dense Marine Traffic. Tim Awbery T., Akkaya A., Lyne P. , Rudd L. , Hoogenstrijd G., Nedelcu M., Kniha D., Akif M., Persad C., Amaha A., Öztürk B. Frontiers in Marine Science (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.860242

Diet of striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) in southern Spanish waters. Saavedra C., García-Polo M., Giménez J., Mons J.L., Castillo J.J., Fernández-Maldonado C., De Stephanis R., Pierce G.J., Santos M.B. Marine Mammal Science (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12945

Killer whales of the Strait of Gibraltar, an endangered subpopulation showing a disruptive behavior. Esteban R., López A., Garcia A., Ferreira M., MartinhoF., Méndez-Fernandeza P., Andréu E., García-Gómez J., Olaya-Ponzone L., Espada-Ruiz R., Gil-Vera F., Martín C., Garcia-Bellido E., Sequeira M., Martínez-Cedeira J. Marine Mammal Science. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12947
Ship Strike Risk for Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus) Off the Garraf coast, Northwest Mediterranean Sea. Tort B., Prieto R., O’Callaghan S., Dominguez P., Degollada E. (2022).

Odontocete cetaceans foraging behind trawlers, worldwide. Bonizzoni, S., Hamilton, S., Reeves, R.R. et al. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09712-z

Microplastic abundance and biodiversity richness overlap: Identification of sensitive areas in the Western Ionian Sea. Matteo Galli, Paola Tepsich, Matteo Baini, Cristina Panti, Massimiliano Rosso, Ariadni Vafeiadou, Martha Pantelidou, Aurélie Moulins, Maria Cristina Fossi. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 177 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113550
Sharp decreases in survival probabilities in the long‑fnned pilot
whales in Strait of Gibraltar. Pons, M., De Stephanis, R., Verborgh, P. et al. Mar Biol 169, 44 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-022-04030-1
Systematic Determination of Herpesvirus in Free‐Ranging Cetaceans Stranded in the Western Mediterranean: Tissue Tropism and Associated Lesions. Vargas‐Castro, I.; Melero, M.; Crespo‐Picazo, J.L.; Jiménez, M.A.; Sierra, E.; Rubio‐Guerri, C.; Arbelo, M.; Fernández, A.; García‐Párraga, D.; Sánchez‐Vizcaíno, J.M. Viruses 2021, 13, 2180.   (2021).

A Wanderer in the Mediterranean Sea: The Case of a Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) from the West Indie. Biagio Violi, Alessandro Verga, Lindsey S. Jones, Giulia Calogero, Giulia Soldano, Ted Cheeseman, and Frederick W. Wenzel.

https://doi.org/10.1578/AM.47.6.2021.599

In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Identifying Spatiotemporal Co-occurrence of Bycaught Common Dolphins and Fisheries in the Bay of Biscay (NE Atlantic) From 2010 to 2019. Peltier H, Authier M, Caurant F, Dabin W, Daniel P, Dars C, Demaret F, Meheust E, Van Canneyt O, Spitz J and Ridoux VFront.

Predicting summer fin whale distribution in the Pelagos Sanctuary (north-western Mediterranean Sea) to identify dynamic whale–vessel collision risk areas. Ham, G. S., Lahaye, E., Rosso, M., Moulins, A., Hines, E., & Tepsich, P. (2021)
Shifting baselines of cetacean conservation in Europe. Bearzi G, Reeves RR. 2021
Niche partitioning amongst northwestern Mediterranean cetaceans using stable isotopes. (2021). Borrell, A., Gazo, M., Aguilar, A., Raga, J. A., Degollada, E., Gozalbes, P., & García-Vernet, R. 
Cetacean mortality due to interactions with fisheries and marine litter ingestion in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea from 1990 to 2019.
Đuras, M., A. Galov, K. Korpes, M. Kolenc, M. Baburić, A. Gudan Kurilj, T. Gomerčić. (2021).
Expanding protected areas to encompass the conservation of the endangered common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) in the Alboran Sea. 
Giménez, Joan & Cañadas, Ana & Stephanis, Renaud & Ramirez, Francisco. (2021).
Stranding patterns and feeding ecology of striped dolphins, Stenella coeruleoalba, in Western Iberia (1981–2014).
Ana Marçalo, Joan Giménez, Lídia Nicolau, Jessica Frois, Marisa Ferreira, Marina Sequeira, Catarina Eira, Graham J. Pierce, José Vingada (2021).

Journal of Sea Research, 169. DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2021.101996

Causes of cetacean stranding and death on the Catalonian coast (western Mediterranean Sea), 2012-2019.
Cuvertoret-Sanz, M., López-Figueroa, C., O’Byrne, A., Canturri, A., Martí-García, B., Pintado, E., Pérez, L., Ganges, L., Cobos, A., Abarca, M.L., Raga, J.A., Van Bressem, M.F. & Domingo, M.(2020).

Dis Aquat Org 142:239-253. DOI: 10.3354/dao03550

Bottlenose dolphins in the north-western Adriatic Sea: abundance and management implications.
Bearzi, G., Bonizzoni, S., Riley, M.A. & Santostasi, N.L. (2020).

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3450

Bottlenose dolphins in the north-western Adriatic Sea: spatial distribution and effects of trawling.
Genetic and demographic history define a conservation strategy for earth’s most endangered pinniped, the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus. 
Karamanlidis, A.A., Skrbinšek, T., Amato, G., Dendrinos, P., Gaughran, S., Kasapidis, P., Kopatz, A. & Stronen, A.V. (2021)

Sci Rep. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79712-1

Demographic parameters of a free-ranging deep-diving cetacean, the long-finned pilot whale.
Verborgh, P., Gauffier, P., Esteban, R. and de Stephanis, R.(2020).

Marine Mammal Science. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12752

Stable isotopes suggest fine-scale sexual segregation in an isolated, endangered sperm whale population..
Enrico Pirotta, Morgana Vighi, José María Brotons, Eileen Dillane, Margalida Cerdà, Luke Rendell.(2020).

Marine Ecology Progress Series 654: 209-218.

Trophic interactions in the “small pelagic fish – dolphins – fisheries” triangle: Outputs of a modelling approach in the North Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece).
K. Tsagarakis, S. Panigada, A. Machias, M. Giannoulaki, A. Foutsi, N. Pierantonio, G. Paximadis.(2020).

Ocean & Coastal Management,105474,ISSN 0964-5691,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105474.

Retrospective Study of Fishery Interactions in Stranded Cetaceans, Canary Islands.
Puig-Lozano R, Fernández A, Sierra E, Saavedra P, Suárez-Santana CM, De la Fuente J, Díaz-Delgado J, Godinho A, García-Álvarez N, Zucca D, Xuriach A, Arregui M, Felipe-Jiménez I, Consoli F, Díaz-Santana PJ, Segura-Göthlin S, Câmara N, Rivero MA, Sacchini S, Bernaldo de Quirós Y and Arbelo M.(2020).

Front. Vet. Sci. 7:567258. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2020.567258

Occurrence of Brucella ceti in striped dolphins from Italian Seas.
Garofolo G, Petrella A, Lucifora G, Di Francesco G, Di Guardo G, Pautasso A, Iulini B, Varello K, Giorda F, Goria M, Dondo A, Zoppi S, Di Francesco CE, Giglio S, Ferringo F, Serrecchia L, Ferrantino MAR, Zilli K, Janowicz A, Tittarelli M, Mignone W, Casalone C, Grattarola C.(2020).

PLoS ONE 15(10): e0240178. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0240178

First record of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) stranding on the northern Aegean Sea coast of Turkey.
Tonay, A.M., Dede, A., Gül, B., Öztürk A.A. (2020).

J Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment 26(2): 223-230.

Novel Necropsy Findings Linked to Peracute Underwater Entrapment in Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus).
Alexandra L. Epple, Joanna T. Daniel, Susan G. Barco, David S. Rotstein and Alexander M. Costidis (2020).
Front. Mar. Sci. 7:503. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00503.
Pingers as cetacean bycatch mitigation measure in Bulgarian turbot fishery.
Popov D, Meshkova G, Hristova P, Gradev G, Rusev D, Panayotova M, Dimitrov H (2020).
Dead Cetacean? Beach, Bloat, Float, Sink.
Moore Michael J., Mitchell Glenn H., Rowles Teri K., Early Greg. (2020).
Population genetic structure of the short-beaked common dolphin from the Black Sea and the Turkish Straits System.
Arda M. Tonay, Begüm Uzun, Ayhan Dede, Ayaka Amaha Öztürk, Erdem Danyer, Işıl Aytemiz Danyer, Sabri Bilgin , Bayram Öztürk & Raşit Bilgin (2020).

Mitochondrial DNA Part A, DOI: 10.1080/24701394.2020.1788008(2020).

A taste for squid: the diet of sperm whales stranded in Greece, Eastern Mediterranean.
Foskolos, Ilias & Koutouzi, Niki & Polychronidis, Lysimachos & Alexiadou, Paraskevi & Frantzis, Alexandros. (2020).
Bycatch ingillnet fisheries threatens Critically Endangered small cetaceans and other aquaticmegafauna.
Brownell, Robert & Reeves, RR & Read, AJ & Smith, Brian & Thomas, Peter & Ralls, K & Amano, M & Berggren, Per & Chit, AM & Collins, Timothy & Currey, R & Dolar, L & Genov, Tilen & Hobbs, R & Kreb, Danielle & Marsh, H & Mei, Zhigang & Perrin, William & Phay, S & Wang, Jingzhen. (2019).
Wait your turn, North Atlantic fin whales share a common feeding ground sequentially.
Ingestion of macroplastics by odontocetes of the Greek Seas: Often deadly!.
Alexiadou, Paraskevi & Foskolos, Ilias & Frantzis, Alexandros. (2019).

Marine Pollution Bulletin. 146. 67-75. 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.05.055.

Monitoring of Marine Mammal Strandings Along French Coasts Reveals the Importance of Ship Strikes on Large Cetaceans: A Challenge for the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
Peltier H, Beaufils A, Cesarini C, Dabin W, Dars C, Demaret F, Dhermain F, Doremus G, Labach H, Van Canneyt O and Spitz J (2019)

Front. Mar. Sci. 6:486. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00486

Trace metals in striped dolphins stranded along the Murcia (Spain) coastline .
Martínez-López, E., Peñalver, J., Escriña, A., Lara, L., Gens, M. J., Dolores, E. M., … & García-Fernández, A. J. (2019).

Chemosphere, 229, 580-588.

Modelling common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) coastal distribution and habitat use: Insights for conservation.

Oriol Giralt Paradell, Bruno Díaz López, Séverine Methion,Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 179,2019,104836,ISSN 0964-5691,

REPORT OF THE JOINT ACCOBAMS/ASCOBANS/ECS/SPA-RAC WORKSHOP ON MARINE DEBRIS AND CETACEAN STRANDING.

ACCOBAMS- ECS Joint WK on Marine Debris and Stranding /2018/ Report.

Cetacean stranding and diet analyses in the North Aegean Sea (Greece).
Assessing the relationship between cetacean strandings (Tursiops truncatus and Stenella coeruleoalba) and fishery pressure indicators in Sicily (Mediterranean Sea) within the framework of the EU Habitats Directive.

Roberto Crosti, Antonella Arcangeli, Teresa Romeo & Franco Andaloro Eur J Wildl Res (2017) 63: 55 .

Cuvier’s Beaked Whale, Ziphius cavirostris, Distribution and Occurrence in the Mediterranean Sea: High-Use Areas and Conservation Threats.
The First record of True’s beaked whale, Mesoplodon mirus, from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey during multiple strandings in June 2016. SHORT COMMUNICATION.

Cetacean stranding rate correlates with fish stock dynamics: research of harbour porpoises in the Sea of Azov.

Estimates of cetacean by-catch in the turbot fishery on the Turkish Western Black Sea Coast in 2007 and 2008.

Preliminary study on a stranding case of Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779) on the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey .

Selection of critical habitats for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) based on behavioral data, in relation to marine traffic in the Istanbul Strait, Turkey
Conserving Cuvier’s beaked whales in the Alboran Sea (SW Mediterranean): Identification of high density areas to be avoided by intense man-made sound

Small dolphins in a small sea: age, growth and life-history aspects of the Black Sea common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus
Beaked Whale Strandings and Naval Exercises
PROOCEEDINGS OF THE ECS WORKSHOP BEST PRACTICE IN RESCUE.
Early physical maturation of female common bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus in the eastern Levantine Basin.
First stranding record of a Risso’s Dolphin (Grampus griseus) in the Marmara Sea, Turkey.
Ayhan Dede1,2*, Arda M. Tonay1,2, Hakkı Bayar2,3, Ayaka A. Öztürk1,2.
Cetacean stranding rate correlates with fish stock dynamics: research of harbour porpoises in the Sea of Azov.
Karina Vishnyakova, Pavel Gol’din Marine Biology. DOI 10.1007/s00227-014-2600-x.
Preliminary study on a stranding case of Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus (Hermann, 1779) on the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey .
Erdem Danyer, Işıl Aytemiz, Ali Cemal Gücü, Arda M. Tonay J. Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment. Vol. 20, No. 2: 152-157 (2014)
Effects of a morbillivirus epizootic on long-finned pilot whales Globicephala melas in Spanish Mediterranean waters.
Kaja Wierucka1,*, Philippe Verborgh1, Rossa Meade1, Leyla Colmant1, Pauline Gauffier1, Ruth Esteban1, Renaud de Stephanis2, Ana Cañadas3.
Stranding of the beaked whales, Risso’s dolphins, and a minke whale on the Turkish coast of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
Öztürk, A. A., Tonay, A. M., Dede, A. J. Black Sea/MediterraneanEnvironment 17:269-274.2011.
Life-history tables of the Mediterranean fin whale from stranding data.
Massimo Arrigoni1,2, Piero Manfredi3, Simone Panigada2, Lorenzo Bramanti1,4 & Giovanni Santangelo.

Perception of a cetacean mass stranding in Italy: the emergence of compassion.
Giovanni Bearzi_, Nino Pierantonio, Silvia Bonizzoni, Giuseppe Notarbartolo Di Sciara And Massimo Demma. Aquatic Conservation: Marine And Freshwater Ecosystems. 20: 644–654 (2010).

Biomass removal by dolphins and fisheries in a Mediterranean Sea coastal area: do dolphins have an ecological impact on fisheries?
Bearzi G., Agazzi S., Gonzalvo J., Bonizzoni S., Costa M., Petroselli A. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 20(5):549-559.2010 .
Conserving whales, dolphins and porpoises in the Mediterranean and Black Seas: an ACCOBAMS status report.
Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Birkun A., Jr.ACCOBAMS, Monaco. 212 p. , 2010.
Resurgence of Morbillivirus infection in Mediterranean dolphins off the French coast.
N. Keck, O. Kwiatek, F. Dhermain, F. Dupraz, H. Boulet, C. Danes, C. Laprie, A. Perrin, J. Godenir, L. Micout, G. Libeaut.
Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in the Mediterranean Sea.
Bearzi G., Fortuna C.M., Reeves R.R. Mammal Review. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2008.00133.x .
Influence of environmental factors on small cetacean distribution in the Spanish Mediterranean.
A. Gómez de Segura, P.S. Hammond, J.A. Raga Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. P. 1-8, 2008 .
Partitioning of the Pelagos Sanctuary (north-western Mediterranean Sea) into hotspots and coldspots of cetacean distributions.
Aurélie Moulins, Massimiliano Rosso, Marco Ballardini and Maurizio Würtz Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, p. 1-9, 2008 .
Seasonal variation of striped dolphins, fin- and sperm whales’ abundance in the Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea).
S. Laran, V. Drouot-Dulau Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Vol. 87, p. 345–352, 2007 .
Genetic variation and population structure of western Mediterranean and northern Atlantic Stenella coeruleoalba populations inferred from microsatellite data .
V.J.R. Bourret, M.R.J.M. Macé, B. Crouau-Roy Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Vol. 87, p. 265–269, 2007 .
REAL DECRETO 1727/2007, de 21 de diciembre, por el que se establecen medidas de protección de los cetáceos.
MINISTERIO DE LA PRESIDENCIA, SPANISH GOVERNMENT.
Panel quits in row over sonar damage.
R. Dalton. Nature. Vol. 439, 376-377, 26 January 2006.
Echouage de mammifères marins:guide d’intervention et procédures d’autopsie.
Jauniaux T., Garcia Hartmann M., Haelters J., Tavernier J., Coignoul F. Ann. Méd. Vét., 2002, 146, 261-216 .