Paul R. Wade

TL;DR: In this article, a simulation method was developed for identifying populations with levels of human-caused mortality that could lead to depletion, taking into account the uncertainty of available information, and a mortality limit was calculated as the product of a minimum population estimate (NMIN), one-half of the maximum net productivity rate (RMAX), and a recovery factor (FR).

TL;DR: Phylogenetic analysis indicated that each of the known ecotypes represents a strongly supported clade with divergence times ranging from approximately 150,000 to 700,000 yr ago, and it is predicted that phylogeographic mitogenomics will become an important tool for improved statistical phyloGeography and more precise estimates of divergence times.

TL;DR: Bayesian statistical inference provides an alternate way to analyze data that is likely to be more appropriate to conservation biology problems than traditional statistical methods as mentioned in this paper, using examples applicable to conservation problems.

TL;DR: Large-scale research vessel surveys were conducted annually from 1986 through 1990 to monitor the abundance of dolphin populations in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean to give single estimates of abundance in the ETP for 24 stocks of cetaceans representing 19 species or genera.

TL;DR: Fatty acid, stable isotope and PCB profiles of the resident and transient ecotypes were consistent with those expected for these whales based on their reported dietary preferences, and these ecotype profiles exhibited broad similarity across geographical regions, suggesting that the dietary specialization reported for residents and transient whales in the well-studies eastern North Pacific populations also extends to the less-studied killer whales inThe western Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands.