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Identify high-priority unanswered questions in marine mammal bioenergetics to guide research and inform conservation and management policies.

January 1, 2022Conservation PhysiologyOpen Access

Key questions in marine mammal bioenergetics

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Identify high-priority unanswered questions in marine mammal bioenergetics to guide research and inform conservation and management policies.
Conducted a priority-setting exercise using electronic communication and an interactive virtual workshop with the marine mammal bioenergetics research community.
Collated a candidate list of 39 research questions and surveyed experts to prioritize topics based on voting thresholds.
Selected 11 key questions that received votes from at least 50% of survey participants out of 39 evaluated candidates.
Identified critical gaps in energy intake, field metabolic rate, human disturbance impacts, lactation, body condition metrics, and interspecies data extrapolation.
Highlighted existing tools—including doubly labelled water, bio-logging tags, and environmental DNA—while emphasizing the need for new methods, particularly for cetaceans.

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Expert consensus survey identifies eleven critical bioenergetic research questions in marine mammals, highlighting key knowledge gaps to improve conservation policies.

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McHuron et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a71bf5cc92390ac2d0800b1 https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coac055

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Expert consensus survey identifies eleven critical bioenergetic research questions in marine mammals, highlighting key knowledge gaps to improve conservation policies.

Key questions in marine mammal bioenergetics

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