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  1. At‐sea distribution of seals on the Northwest European Shelf: Towards transboundary conservation and management

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, December 2025, Wiley

    Anita Gilles

  2. Integration of indicator outcomes for assessing good environmental status: A model-based approach

    Article • Ecological Informatics, December 2025, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  3. European stranding networks as a tool for monitoring marine mammal populations (Part I): towards optimising the functioning of networks

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, November 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Anita Gilles

  4. A multi-method approach reveals long- and short-term dietary differences in individual harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena in the southern North Sea

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, February 2025, Inter-Research Science Center

    Anita Gilles

  5. Assessing the reliability of species distribution models under changing environments: A case study on cetaceans in the North-East Atlantic

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, December 2024, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  6. Maritime traffic impacts harbour porpoises

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, November 2024, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  7. How Do Offshore Wind Farms Affect the Ocean?

    Article • Frontiers for Young Minds, October 2024, Frontiers

    Anita Gilles

  8. First record of a Critically Endangered species, European sturgeon, in the stomach of harbor porpoises from the North Sea

    Article • Endangered Species Research, June 2024, Inter-Research Science Center

    Anita Gilles

  9. Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site and requirements for trilateral monitoring

    Article • Marine Biodiversity, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles, Dr Jonas Teilmann

  10. A negative trend in abundance and an exceeded mortality limit call for conservation action for the Vulnerable Belt Sea harbour porpoise population

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, March 2024, Frontiers

    Anita Gilles

  11. Development of a new control rule for managing anthropogenic removals of protected, endangered or threatened species in marine ecosystems

    Article • PeerJ, January 2024, PeerJ

    Anita Gilles

  12. Millions of seafloor pits, not pockmarks, induced by vertebrates in the North Sea

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles

  13. Variation of blubber thickness for three marine mammal species in the southern Baltic Sea

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, November 2022, Frontiers

    Anita Gilles

  14. Deciphering Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra L.) and seal (Phoca vitulina L.; Halichoerus grypus F.) diet: Metabarcoding tailored for fresh and saltwater fish species

    Article • Molecular Ecology, August 2022, Wiley

    Anita Gilles

  15. Assessing the state of marine biodiversity in the Northeast Atlantic

    Article • Ecological Indicators, August 2022, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  16. Evaluating Strategies for Managing Anthropogenic Mortality on Marine Mammals: An R Implementation With the Package RLA

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, December 2021, Frontiers

    Anita Gilles

  17. Age and lunar cycle predict harbor porpoise bycatch in the south-western Baltic Sea

    Article • PeerJ, October 2021, PeerJ

    Anita Gilles

  18. Small Cetacean in a Human High-Use Area: Trends in Harbor Porpoise Abundance in the North Sea Over Two Decades

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, January 2021, Frontiers

    Anita Gilles

  19. Opportunistically collected data from aerial surveys reveal spatio-temporal distribution patterns of marine debris in German waters

    Article • Environmental Science and Pollution Research, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles

  20. Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: Strandings to inform conservation management

    Article • Biological Conservation, September 2020, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  21. Summer Abundance of Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Coastal Waters of Iceland and the Faroe Islands

    Article • NAMMCO Scientific Publications, August 2020, University Library at Tromso

    Anita Gilles

  22. Of power and despair in cetacean conservation: estimation and detection of trend in abundance with noisy and short time-series

    Article • PeerJ, August 2020, PeerJ

    Anita Gilles

  23. Distribution maps of cetacean and seabird populations in the North‐East Atlantic

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, December 2019, Wiley

    Anita Gilles

  24. The effect of a multi-target protocol on cetacean detection and abundance estimation in aerial surveys

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, September 2019, Royal Society Publishing

    Anita Gilles

  25. Isotopic niches of fin whales from the Mediterranean Sea and the Celtic Sea (North Atlantic)

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, June 2017, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  26. Diet composition and food consumption rate of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena ) in the western Baltic Sea

    Article • Marine Mammal Science, May 2017, Wiley

    Anita Gilles

  27. Habitat-Based Density Models for Three Cetacean Species off Southern California Illustrate Pronounced Seasonal Differences

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, May 2017, Frontiers

    Anita Gilles, John A Hildebrand

  28. Habitat-based density models

    Article • Ecosphere, June 2016, Wiley

    Anita Gilles

  29. Trends of harbour porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ) density in the southern North Sea

    Article • Ecological Indicators, January 2016, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  30. Environmental Impacts—Marine Ecosystems

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles

  31. Large scale surveys for cetaceans: Line transect assumptions, reliability of abundance estimates and improving survey efficiency – A response to MacLeod

    Article • Biological Conservation, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Jonas Teilmann, Anita Gilles

  32. Abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the western Baltic, Belt Seas and Kattegat

    Article • Marine Biology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jonas Teilmann, Anita Gilles

  33. Marine mammals and windfarms: Effects of alpha ventus on harbour porpoises

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles

  34. Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management

    Article • Biological Conservation, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Jonas Teilmann, Anita Gilles

  35. Effects of pile-driving on harbour porpoises ( Phocoena phocoena ) at the first offshore wind farm in Germany

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, April 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Anita Gilles

  36. Modelling harbour porpoise seasonal density as a function of the German Bight environment: implications for management

    Article • Endangered Species Research, August 2011, Inter-Research Science Center

    Anita Gilles

  37. Protection of Cetaceans in European Waters—A Case Study on Bottom-Set Gillnet Fisheries within Marine Protected Areas

    Article • The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, January 2011, Brill

    Anita Gilles

  38. Seasonal distribution of harbour porpoises and possible interference of offshore wind farms in the German North Sea

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, May 2009, Inter-Research Science Center

    Anita Gilles

  39. Harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena abundance in the southwestern Baltic Sea

    Article • Endangered Species Research, January 2008, Inter-Research Science Center

    Anita Gilles

  40. A decade of harbour porpoise occurrence in German waters—Analyses of aerial surveys, incidental sightings and strandings

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, July 2006, Elsevier

    Anita Gilles

  41. Evaluating the distribution and density of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in selected areas in German waters

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles

  42. Harbour Porpoises (Phocoena phocoena): Investigation of Density, Distribution Patterns, Habitat Use and Acoustics in the German North and Baltic Seas

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Anita Gilles