Daniel Burns

Factors contributing to pesticide contamination in riverine systems: The role of wastewater and landscape sources

Samuel A. Miller, Kaycee E. Faunce, Larry B. Barber, Jacob A. Fleck et autres

Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) discharges can be a source of organic contaminants, including pesticides, to rivers. An integrated model was developed for the Potomac River watershed (PRW) to determine the amount of accumulated wastewater percentage of streamflow (ACCWW) and calculate predicted environmental …

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Diversity and distribution of cetaceans in the Republic of Palau

Olive Andrews, Tiare Holm, Daniel Burns, Cory Hom-Weaver et autres

Context Until recently, very little was known about the species diversity and occurrence of cetaceans in the Republic of Palau. A dedicated scientific investigation into the occurrence and distribution of island associated cetaceans in Palau was conducted in 2012 and 2013. Aims …

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Antarctic waters (Area V) near the Balleny Islands are a summer feeding area for some eastern Australian Breeding Stock E(i) Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Wally Franklin, Trish Franklin, Lyndon Owen Brooks, Nadine J. Gibbs et autres

Discovery mark tagging provided the first evidence of linkages between eastern Australian and Oceania Humpback whale breeding grounds and the Antarctic Area V feeding areas. Early investigation of movements of humpback whales in the Western Pacific led to the view that the …

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Photo-identification confirms that humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) from eastern Australia migrate past New Zealand but indicates low levels of interchange with breeding grounds of Oceania

Wally Franklin, Trish Franklin, Nadine J. Gibbs, Simon Childerhouse et autres

Recent photo-identification and genetic studies have identified at least five discrete breeding populations in Australia and Oceania: western Australia (D), eastern Australia (E (i)), New Caledonia (E (ii)), Tonga (E (iii)), French Polynesia and the Cook Islands (F). Also evident are low …

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Biogeography in the deep: Hierarchical population genomic structure of two beaked whale species

Aubrie B. Onoufriou, Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Natacha Aguilar de Soto, Morgan L. McCarthy et autres

The deep sea is the largest ecosystem on Earth, yet little is known about the processes driving patterns of genetic diversity in its inhabitants. Here, we investigated the macro- and microevolutionary processes shaping genomic population structure and diversity in two poorly understood, …

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Marine debris: the Australian perspective

Daniel Burns, Wally Smith, Heidi Tait

The influence of landscapes – topography, soil, vegetation, geology – on water quality is an inherent part of the global water cycle. Land use has adverse impacts for example when soils are exposed, significant quantities of pollutants are released (including anthropogenic materials …

Abundance of East coast Australian humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in 2005 estimated using multi-point sampling and capture-recapture analysis

David A. Paton, Lyndon Owen Brooks, Daniel Burns, Trish Franklin et autres

The humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) that migrate along the east coast of Australia were hunted to near extinction during the lastcentury. This remnant population is part of Breeding Stock E. Previous abundance estimates for the east Australian portion of Breeding Stock Ehave …

First assessment of interchange of humpback whales between Oceania and the East coast of Australia

Claire Garrigue, Trish Franklin, Rochelle Constantine, Kirsty Russell et autres

The interchange of individual humpback whales between the wintering grounds of Oceania (South Pacific) and the east coast of Australia weredocumented by individual identification photographs collected from 1999 to 2004. Interchange was assessed using regional catalogues of flukephotographs, totalling 672 individuals from …

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Assessing the design and power of capture-recapture studies to estimate demographic parameters for the Endangered Oceania humpback whale population

Emma L. Carroll, Lyndon Owen Brooks, CS Baker, Daniel Burns et autres

Capture-recapture studies offer a powerful tool to assess abundance, survival and population rate of change (λ). A previous capture-recapture study, based on DNA profiles, estimated that the IUCN-listed Endangered Oceania population of humpback whales had a superpopulation size of 4329 whales (95% …

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Remote Antarctic feeding ground important for east Australian humpback whales

Rochelle Constantine, Debbie J. Steel, Judy Allen, Megan Anderson et autres

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Migratory movements of individual humpback whales photographed off the eastern coast of Australia

Daniel Burns, Lyndon Owen Brooks, Peter L. Harrison, Trish Franklin et autres

Abstract Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) migrate long distances each year on a return journey from low‐latitude breeding grounds to high‐latitude feeding grounds. Migration is influenced by subtle and complex social behaviors and the assumption that whales transit directly through the …

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Revised assessment for Oceania humpbacks: survey design considerations and power analysis

Emma L. Carroll, Lyndon Owen Brooks, Daniel Burns, Jennifer A. Jackson et autres

The Oceania population of humpback whales, comprising sub-stocks E2, E3, and F, was heavily depleted by whaling operations in the 20th century and is now classed as Endangered by the IUCN. A mark-recapture study of individuals identified by genotypes and photo-identification found …