Reproductive Failure in UK Harbour Porpoises Phocoena phocoena : Legacy of Pollutant Exposure?

This research was supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the Seventh European Community Framework Programme (Project Cetacean-stressors, PIOF-GA-2010-276145 to PDJ and SM). Additional funding was provided through the Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans of the Baltic, North East Atlantic, Irish and North Seas (ASCOBANS) (Grants SSFA/2008 and SSFA / ASCOBANS / 2010 / 5 to SM). Analysis of Scottish reproductive and teeth samples was funded by the EC-funded BIOCET project (BIOaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in small CETaceans in European waters: transport pathways and impact on reproduction, grant EVK3-2000-00027 to GJP), and Marine Scotland (GJP). Samples examined in this research were collected under the collaborative Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme (http://ukstrandings.org/), which is funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the UK’s Devolved Administrations in Scotland and Wales (http://sciencesearch.defra.gov.uk/Defaul​t.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=No​ne&Completed=0&ProjectID=15331) (grants to PDJ, RD). UK Defra also funded the chemical analysis under a service-level agreement with the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (grants to RJL, JB). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

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Appendix D. Detailed descriptions of individual analyses used for testing specific hypotheses and predictions.

Detailed descriptions of individual analyses used for testing specific hypotheses and predictions

Appendix C. A thermo-energetic model of the starvation process in the harbor porpoise.

A thermo-energetic model of the starvation process in the harbor porpoise

Appendix A. Data sources, selection, processing, and other considerations.

Data sources, selection, processing, and other considerations

Appendix B. Analysis of monthly variation in body mass in harbor porpoises that died due to bottlenose dolphin predation.

Analysis of monthly variation in body mass in harbor porpoises that died due to bottlenose dolphin predation

Life history of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in Scottish (UK) waters

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