PUBLICATIONS - 2020

Peer-reviewed Journal Papers and Conference Posters

A Worrying Decline in the Presence of Bottlenose Dolphins in Montenegro & the Importance of Citizen Science During COVID-19

Tim Awbery and Aylin Akkaya

Comparison of acoustic patterns recorded for the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Northern Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea) and in the North-western Levantine Sea (Eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Aylin Akkaya, Tim Awbery,  Patrick Lyne, Giulia Cipriano, Rosalia Maglietta, Vito Renò, Carmello Fanizza, Roberto Carlucci

Behavioural changes and potential consequences of cetacean exposure to purse seine vessels in the Istanbul Strait, Turkey

Cristóbal Olaya Meza, Aylin Akkaya, Flavio Affinito , Bayram Öztürk
and Ayaka Amaha Öztürk

Preliminary results of cetacean sightings in the eastern Mediterranean Sea of Turkey

Aylin Akkaya, Patrick Lyne, Xenia Schulz, Tim Awbery, Svenja Capitain, Blanca Ferriz Rosell, Belen Yıldırım, Cansu İlkılınç, Julieta Vigliano Relva, Harry Clark, Liam van Walsum, Jonathan Gordon

Residency patterns and site fidelity of Grampus griseus (Cuvier, 1812) in the Gulf of Taranto (Northern Ionian Sea, Central-Eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Roberto Carlucci, Aylin Akkaya Baş, Peggy Liebig, Vito Renò, Francesca Cornelia Santacesaria, Stefano Bellomo, Carmelo Fanizza, Rosalia Maglietta and Giulia Cipriano

Non-targeted tourism affects the behavioural budgets of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus, South Adriatic, Montenegro

Jack Clarkson *, Fredrik Christiansen, Tim Awbery, Lucy Abbiss, Natasa Nikpaljevic, Aylin Akkaya

Public Outreach Publications

It's TOO LOUD!

A Guide on What Seismic is, its Proven and yet Ignored Consequences and How These can be Minimised

DMAD's Ongoing Projects

A look at some our work in Turkey, Montenegro and Albania in 2020