Sami Hassani
16 Papers
90 Citations
Sami Hassani is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Phocoena & Porpoise. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 16 publications.
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Papers
Food and feeding ecology of the common dolphin (delphinus delphis) in the oceanic northeast atlantic and comparison with its diet in neritic areas
TL;DR: The prey characteristics and their state of digestion suggest that the common dolphin forages preferentially on small schooling, vertically migrating mesopelagic fauna in the surface layer at dusk and early night.
The use of DNA barcoding to monitor the marine mammal biodiversity along the French Atlantic coast
Eric Alfonsi,Eléonore Méheust,Sandra Fuchs,François-Gilles Carpentier,Yann Quillivic,Amélia Viricel,Sami Hassani,Jean-Luc Jung +7 more
TL;DR: Results show that the use of DNA barcoding in conjunction with a stranding network could clearly increase the accuracy of the monitoring of marine mammal biodiversity.
DNA barcoding for the identification of soft remains of prey in the stomach contents of grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) and harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena)
TL;DR: In this paper, a combined analysis of stomach contents, based on prey hard remains and, in parallel, a simple DNA barcoding approach to identify the soft remains, was presented.
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Grey and harbour seals in France : distribution at sea, connectivity and trends in abundance at haulout sites
Cécile Vincent,Mathilde Huon,Florence Caurant,Willy Dabin,Armel Deniau,Stéphane Dixneuf,Laetitia Dupuis,Jean-François Elder,Marie-Hélène Fremau,Sami Hassani,Audrey Hemon,Jacky Karpouzopoulos,Cécile Lefeuvre,Bernie J. McConnell,Simon Moss,Pascal Provost,Jérôme Spitz,Yannis Turpin,Vincent Ridoux +18 more
TL;DR: The distribution patterns and variations in relative abundance of both species were investigated along the French coast of the English Channel, at the southern limit of their range where seal numbers are increasing.
A European Melting Pot of Harbour Porpoise in the French Atlantic Coasts Inferred from Mitochondrial and Nuclear Data
Eric Alfonsi,Sami Hassani,François-Gilles Carpentier,Jean-Yves Le Clec’h,Willy Dabin,Olivier Van Canneyt,Michael C. Fontaine,Michael C. Fontaine,Jean-Luc Jung +8 more
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that a major proportion of the animals sampled are admixed individuals from the two genetically distinct populations previously identified along the Iberian coasts and in the North East Atlantic, which are clearly the place where these two previously separated populations of harbour porpoises are now admixing.