Behavioural drivers of the ecological roles and importance of marine mammals

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Seasonal habitat-based density models for a marine top predator, the harbor porpoise, in a dynamic environment (2016, background): “Top predators, such as marine mammals, can serve as prime sentinels of multitrophic marine ecosystem changes since they integrate ecological variations across large spatial and long temporal scales (Moore 2008, Kiszka et al. 2015).”
Marine mammal conservation: over the horizon (2021, background): “Their typically large body sizes and broad range of diets influence community structure and functioning through processes such as top-down control, nutrient recycling and bioturbation (Estes & Duggins 1995, Bowen 1997, Roman et al. 2014, Kiszka et al. 2015, Albouy et al. 2017).”
Marine megafauna interactions with small-scale fisheries in the southwestern Indian Ocean: a review of status and challenges for research and management (2018, background): “As apex and meso-predators across a number of food webs they affect community structure and dynamics (Heithaus et al. 2008; Kiszka et al. 2015), and as grazers impact seagrass systems and nutrient cycling (Aragones et al. 2006; Burkholder et al. 2013; Preen 1995).”