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Filipa Isabel Pereira Samarra - Director

Filipa Isabel Pereira Samarra

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Þjónustustofnanir

Filipa Isabel Pereira Samarra

Director

Phone
5255302
Email
fips [at] hi.is

Unit
University of Iceland Research Centre in Vestmannaeyjar
Website
http://www.icelandic-orcas.com

Show Published works

2025

Killer whale (Orcinus orca)Nature Ecology & Evolution
Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulationHeredity
Sound production during feeding in Icelandic herring-eating killer whales (Orcinus orca)Ethology Ecology and Evolution

2024

Killer whale (Orcinus orca) occurrence in Icelandic waters revealed by passive acoustic monitoringMarine Mammal Science
Using acoustic monitoring to reveal nearly year-round presence of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the waters of southern IcelandMarine Mammal Science
Geographical movements, site fidelity and connectivity of killer whales within and outside herring grounds in Icelandic coastal watersMarine Biology
Trophic ecology, based on stable isotope values, of long-finned pilot whales Globicephala melas stranded on the Icelandic coastMarine Ecology Progress Series

2023

Call combination patterns in Icelandic killer whales (Orcinus orca)Scientific Reports
Call type repertoire of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Iceland and its variation across regionsMarine Mammal Science
First record of Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus (Cuvier, 1812) in Icelandic watersEcology and Evolution
POPs in long-finned pilot whales mass stranded in Iceland as a proxy for their physiological conditionMarine Pollution Bulletin
Quantitative fatty acid signature analysis reveals a high level of dietary specialization in killer whales across the North AtlanticJournal of Animal Ecology
Varying Diet Composition Causes Striking Differences in Legacy and Emerging Contaminant Concentrations in Killer Whales across the North AtlanticEnvironmental Science and Technology

2022

Climate change and cetacean healthPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Insights into the trophic ecology of white-beaked dolphins Lagenorhynchus albirostris and harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in IcelandMarine Ecology Progress Series
Killer whale Orcinus orca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Observations of cetaceans in the waters of the Surtsey Nature Reserve between 2008 and 2021Surtsey research
Occurrence of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Icelandic coastal waters and their interspecific interactionsActa Ethologica

2021

Individual Prey Specialization Drives PCBs in Icelandic Killer WhalesEnvironmental Science and Technology
Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic historiesMolecular Ecology
A comparison of Northeast Atlantic killer whale (Orcinus orca) stereotyped call repertoiresMarine Mammal Science

2020

Crowd intelligence can discern between repertoires of killer whale ecotypesBioacoustics

2019

False-negative detections from environmental DNA collected in the presence of large numbers of killer whales (Orcinus orca)Environmental DNA
Killer whale genomes reveal a complex history of recurrent admixture and vicarianceMolecular Ecology
Noise influences the acoustic behavior of killer whales, Orcinusorca, inIcelandProceedings of Meetings on Acoustics
North Atlantic killer whale Orcinus orca populationsMammal Review

2018

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Iceland show weak genetic structure among diverse isotopic signatures and observed movement patternsEcology and Evolution
Predicting global killer whale population collapse from PCB pollutionScience
Prey of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in IcelandPLoS ONE
The incidence of bent dorsal fins in free-ranging cetaceansJournal of Anatomy

2017

A multilevel society of herring-eating killer whales indicates adaptation to prey characteristicsBehavioral Ecology
Icelandic herring-eating killer whales feed at nightMarine Biology
Incidence of probable vertebral column deformities in Norwegian and Icelandic Killer Whales (Orcinus orca)Aquatic Mammals
Intra-population variation in isotopic niche in herring-eating killer whales off IcelandMarine Ecology Progress Series
Movements and site fidelity of killer whales (Orcinus orca) relative to seasonal and long-term shifts in herring (Clupea harengus) distributionMarine Biology

2016

Identifying variations in baseline behavior of killer whales (Orcinus orca) to contextualize their responses to anthropogenic noise
Low-frequency signals produced by Northeast Atlantic killer whales (Orcinus orca)Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Physical constraints of cultural evolution of dialects in killer whalesJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Separating underwater ambient noise from flow noise recorded on stereo acoustic tags attached to marine mammalsJournal of Experimental Biology

2015

Cultural evolution of killer whale callsBehaviour
Geographic variation in the time-frequency characteristics of high-frequency whistles produced by killer whales (Orcinus orca)Marine Mammal Science
Killer whale call frequency is similar across the oceans, but varies across sympatric ecotypesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Prey-induced behavioural plasticity of herring-eating killer whalesMarine Biology
Seasonal movements of killer whales between Iceland and ScotlandAquatic Biology
Variations in killer whale food-associated calls produced during different prey behavioural contextsBehavioural Processes

2014

A comparison of pigmentation features among North Atlantic killer whale (Orcinus orca) populationsJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
Classification of large acoustic datasets using machine learning and crowdsourcingJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Dose-response relationships for the onset of avoidance of sonar by free-ranging killer whalesJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Large scale surveys for cetaceansBiological Conservation
North Atlantic killer whale research; past, present and futureJournal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

2013

Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and managementBiological Conservation

2012

Persistence of skin marks on killer whales (Orcinus orca) caused by the parasitic sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) in IcelandMarine Mammal Science
Pilot Whales Attracted to Killer Whale SoundsPLoS ONE

2010

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) produce ultrasonic whistlesJournal of the Acoustical Society of America

2009

Background noise constrains communicationBehaviour

2007

Caller sex and orientation influence spectral characteristics of "two-voice" stereotyped calls produced by free-ranging killer whalesJournal of the Acoustical Society of America
Increasing abundance of bowhead whales in West GreenlandBiology Letters

Keywords for Specialisation:

Behavioural Ecology

Foraging behaviour