Exploring the evidence of direct threats to cetaceans from maritime vessels: A systematic map
Valeria Ferrari, Emily Hague, Marija Sciberras, Karen A Alexander, Patrick D O’Hara, Lauren McWhinnie · 2026
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Description
Valeria Ferrari and co-workers map the published evidence on direct harm that ships and boats do to whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Vessel traffic keeps growing worldwide, but knowledge of its effects is patchy. Their 2026 review screens tens of thousands of search hits down to five hundred sixty-eight documents and extracts more than six hundred fifty evidence records.
Bottlenose dolphins and humpback whales drew the most study, and tour boats were the most watched vessel type. North American waters dominated the record. Porpoises, beaked whales, African waters, and the open ocean were thinly covered. Many reports never even named the vessel type clearly. The map shows conservation science where to point its next surveys.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Valeria Ferrari, Emily Hague, Marija Sciberras, Karen A Alexander, Patrick D O’Hara, Lauren McWhinnie |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66910 |
| LICENSE | CC_BY |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS |