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Interactions between seabirds and pollution in Irish waters
(2017-01)
Seabirds are abundant and ubiquitous globally. They suffer pressure from many contemporary threats such as fisheries, invasive species and pollution. This thesis focuses on two different types of pollution: plastic litter ...
Including unsexed individuals in sex-specific growth models
(Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2017-04-19)
Sexually dimorphic growth models are typically estimated by fitting growth curves to individuals of known sex. Yet, macrospically ascribing sex can be difficult, particularly for immature animals. As a result, sex-specific ...
Gill disease in finfish aquaculture with emphasis on amoebic gill disease
(2017-08)
Gill disease is one of the most significant challenges facing global salmon aquaculture and in terms of economic impact; amoebic gill disease (AGD) caused by the free living protozoan Neoparamoeba perurans is perhaps the ...
Life history, behaviour and social structure of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland
(2017-11)
Bottlenose dolphins are a complex intelligent species with great diversity and variability in behaviours and social systems across populations, but site-specific information on many aspects of the bottlenose dolphin ...