Michela Podestà
American Museum of Natural History
39 Papers
76 Citations
Michela Podestà is an academic researcher from American Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Stenella coeruleoalba. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 35 publications. Previous affiliations of Michela Podestà include Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano.
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Papers
Collisions between ships and whales
TL;DR: In this article, the authors search historical records and computerized stranding databases for evidence of ship strikes involving great whales (i.e., baleen whales and the sperm whale).
The effects of inbreeding on mortality during a morbillivirus outbreak in the Mediterranean striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba)
TL;DR: It was found that dolphins dying early in the outbreak were significantly more inbred than those dying later, suggesting an important role for inbreeding in the dynamics of disease spread and that, in marine mammal research, caution should be exercised when inferring demographic parameters from stranded specimens.
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A review of Cuvier's beaked whale strandings in the Mediterranean Sea
Michela Podestà,Gianni Pavan,Aimilia Drougas,Anastasia Komnenou,Nicola Portunato +4 more
- 01 Jan 2006
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of strandings data collected by strandings networks from Italy, Greece, Spain and France is presented, along with strandings information gleaned from the literature, personal communications, regional newspapers and the world wide web.
A review of Cuvier’s beaked whale strandings in the Mediterranean Sea
TL;DR: In this article , the authors reviewed strandings data collected by strandings networks from Italy, Greece, Spain and France and compiled strandings information gleaned from the literature, personal communications, regional newspapers and the world wide web from countries that border the Mediterranean Sea.
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Age estimation in the Mediterranean bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (Montagu 1821) by bone density of the thoracic limb
Camilla Butti,Livio Corain,Bruno Cozzi,Michela Podestà,Andrea Pirone,Marco Affronte,Alessandro Zotti +6 more
TL;DR: The results show that bone mineral density values of the thoracic limb are indeed reliable age predictors in Tursiops truncatus and further investigations in additional odontocete species are necessary to provide strong evidence of the reliability of bone mineraldensity as an indicator of growth and chronological wear and tear in toothed‐whales.
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