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[50] León F, Le Bohec C, Pizarro EJ, *Baille L, Cristofari R, *Houstin A, Zitterbart DP, Barriga G, Poulin E, Vianna JA, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Suspected in penguins and shags on the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctic Coast", preprint, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.16.585360v1

[49] *Winterl A, *Richter S, *Houstin A, Barracho T, Boreau M, Cornec C, Couet D, Cristofari R, Eiselt C, Fabry B, Krellenstein A, Mark C, Manika A, Menard D, Moriany J, Pottier S, Schloesing E, Le Bohec C & Zitterbart DP, "Remote sensing of emperor penguin abundance and breeding success", preprint, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.24.554580v1

[48] *Richter S, Yurk H, *Winterl A, Chmelnitsky E, Serra N, O'Hara P, Zitterbart DP, "Coastal Marine Mammal conservation using thermal imaging-based detection systems", preprint, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.25.554754v1

[47] LaRue M, Iles D, Labrousse S, Fretwell P, Ortega D, Devane E, Horstmann I, Viollat L, Foster-Dyer R, Le Bohec C, Zitterbart D, *Houstin A, *Richter S, *Winterl A, Wienecke B, Salas L, Nixon M, Barbraud C, Kooyman G, Ponganis P, Ainley D, Trathan P, Jenouvrier S, Advances in remote sensing of emperor penguins: first multi-year time series documenting trends in the global population", Proc. R. Soc. B. 29120232067 20232067, http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.2067

[46] Bardon G, *Winterl A, Cristofari R, *Houstin A, Fernandes FAN, Vallas B, Barracho T, *Wong E, Ceresa C, Salmon CE, Allemand D, Chatelain N, Courtecuisse J, Friess B, Le Maho Y, Planas-Bielsa V, ^Zitterbart DP & ^Le Bohec C, “Using deep learning algorithms to automatically classify breeding status of individuals in populations monitored by RFID technology”, Methods Ecol Evol. 2023;00:1–13, https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.14187

[45] *Goldwater M, Zitterbart DP, Wright D, Bonnel J. “Automatic Detection and Ranging of impulsive sounds in a shallow water waveguide with artificial intelligence”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153, 1094 (2023), https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0017118.

[44] Gutt J, Arndt S, Bornemann H, Eisen O, Flores H, Griffiths H, Hattermann T, Hain S, Hoppema M, Isla E, Janout M, Mark FC, Moreau S, Trimborn S, van Opzeeland I, Pörtner HO, Zitterbart DP, Piepenburg D „ A roadmap to observe, understand, and project ecosystem response to environmental change in the East Antarctic Southern Ocean”, BioGeoSciences, 19, 5313–5342, 2022, https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/19/5313/2022/

[43] Leistenschneider C, Burkhardt-Holm P, *Houstin A, Eisen O, Zitterbart DP, Neff S, Primpke S, Le Bohec C and Gerdts G. “No evidence of microplastic ingestion in emperor penguin chicks from the Atka Bay colony (Antarctica)”, Science of The Total Environment, 2022, 158314, ISSN 0048-9697, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158314

[42] *Houstin A, Zitterbart DP, Heerah K, Eisen O, Planas-Bielsa V, Fabry B and Le Bohec C, "Current conservation measures do not provide effective protection for emperor penguins." R. Soc. Open Sci.9:211708. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211708

[41] *Baille LMR and Zitterbart DP. "Effectiveness of surface-based North Atlantic right whale detection methods for vessel strike mitigation", ESR 49:57-69 (2022), https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01202

[40] *Houstin A, Zitterbart DP, *Winterl A, *Richter S, Planas-Bielsa V, Chevallier D, Ancel A, Fournier J, Fabry B, Le Bohec C, "Biologging of emperor penguins - attachment techniques and associated deployment performance", 2022, PLoS ONE 17(8): e0265849. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265849

[39] Lonati G, Zitterbart DP, Miller C, Corkeron P, Moore M, "Infrared thermography from a remotely piloted aircraft system to investigate the thermal physiology of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis)". ESR 48:139-154 (2022), https://doi.org/10.3354/esr01193

[38] Zitterbart DP, Bocconcelli A, J. Bonnel, Ochs M, "TOSSIT, a low-cost mooring system for low-noise ropeless passive acoustic monitoring deployments". HardwareX, 2022, e00304, ISSN 2468-0672, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2022.e00304.

[37] *Goldwater M, Bonnel J, Wright D, Cammereri A, Zitterbart DP, „Detection of multi-mode signals using machine learning", JASA Express Letters 1, 106002 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006718.

[36] Labrousse S, Iles D, LaRue M, Viollat L, Fretwell P, Trathan P, Zitterbart DP and Jenouvrier S. "Quantifying the causes and consequences of variation in satellite-derived population indices: a case study of emperor penguins", (2021), Remote Sens Ecol Conserv. https://doi.org/10.1002/rse2.233

[35] Bonnel J, Bazile Kinda G and Zitterbart DP, "Low-frequency ocean ambient noise on the Chukchi Shelf in the Changing Arctic." The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149, 4061 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0005135.

[34] *Owen K, Saeki K, Warren JD, Bocconcelli A, Wiley D, Ohira SI, *Bombosch A, Toda K, and Zitterbart DP. Natural dimethyl sulfide gradients would lead marine predators to higher prey biomass. Communications Biology 4, 149 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01668-3

[33] *Winterl A, *Richter S, Houstin A, Nesterova AP, Bonadonna F, Schneider W, Fabry B, Le Bohec C and Zitterbart DP. micrObs, a low-cost mobile camera observatory for observation of dynamic processes in animal groups. HardwareX, 20 August 2020, e00134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2020.e00134

[32] Martins MCI, Miller C, Hamilton P, Robbins J, Zitterbart DP, Moore M. Respiration cycle duration and seawater flux through open blowholes of humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and North Atlantic right (Eubalaena glacialis) whales. Mar Mam Sci. 2020; 1- 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.12703

[31] Zitterbart DP, Smith H, Flau M, Richter S, Burkhardt E, Beland J, Bennett L, Cammareri A, Davis A, Holst M, Lanfredi C, Michel H, Noad M, Owen K, and Boebel O. Scaling the laws of thermal imaging marine mammal detection. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, (JTech), https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0054.1

[30] Smith HR, Zitterbart DP, Flau M, Norris TF, Ferguson EL, Jones C, Boebel O, Moulton VD. A field comparison of marine mammal detections via visual, acoustic, and infrared (IR) imaging methods offshore Atlantic Canada. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 154, May 2020, 111026; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111026

[29] Menze S, Zitterbart DP, Biuw M, Boebel O. Estimating the distribution of vocalizing animals from ambient sound spectra using widely spaced recorder arrays and Bayesian inversion. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146, 4699 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5139406

[28] Trathan PN, Wienecke B, Barbraud C, Jenouvrier S, Kooyman G, Bracegirdle TJ, Phillips T, Le Bohec C, Ainley D, Ancel A, Zitterbart DP, Chown S, LaRue M, Cristofari R, Younger J, Clucas G, Bost CA, Brown J, Gillett HJ, Fretwell PT. The emperor penguin - vulnerable to projected rates of warming and sea ice loss. Biological Conservation, 2019; 108216, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108216

[27] *Gerum R, *Richter S, *Winterl A, Mark C, Fabry B, Zitterbart DP. CameraTransform: A Python package for perspective corrections and image mapping. SoftwareX, Volume 10, 2019, 100333, ISSN 2352-7110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2019.100333

[26] Okane D, Koveke EP, Tashima K, Saeki K, Maezono S, Nagahata T, Hayashi N, Owen K, Zitterbart DP, Ohira SI, Toda K. High sensitivity monitoring device for onboard measurement of dimethyl sulfide and dimethylsulfoniopropionate in seawater and oceanic atmosphere. Anal. Chem. 2019,91,16,10484-10491, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b01360

[25] *Richter S, *Gerum R, *Winterl A, Houstin A, *Seifert M, *Peschel J, Fabry B, Le Bohec C and Zitterbart DP. Phase transitions in huddling emperor penguins. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 214002 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aabb8e

[24] *Gerum R, *Richter S, Fabry B, Nesterova A, Le Bohec C, Bonadonna F, and Zitterbart DP. Structural organisation and dynamics in king penguin colonies. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 51 164004 (2018), https://doi.org:10.1088/1361-6463/aab46b

[23] *Richter S, Gerum R, Schneider W, Fabry B, Le Bohec C, and Zitterbart DP. Remote controlled observatories for behavioral and ecological research on seabird colonies. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, (2018), https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12971

[22] Verfuss UK, Gillespie D, Gordon J, Marques TA, Miller B, Plunkett R, Theriault J, Tollit D, Zitterbart DP, Hubert P, & Thomas L. Low Visibility real-time marine mammal monitoring techniques review. Marine Pollution Bulletin 126 (2018) 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.10.034

[21] Sorensen S, Treible W, Hsu L, Wang X, Mahoney AR, Zitterbart DP, Kambahmettu C. Deep Learning for Polar Bear Detection. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2017, vol 10269. Springer; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59126-1_38

[20] Sorensen S, Kolagunda A, Mahoney A, Zitterbart DP, Kambahmettu C. A Virtual Reality Framework for Multimodal Imagery in Vessels in Polar Regions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2017, Volume 10133, pp 63-75, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51814-5_6

[19] *Menze S, Zitterbart DP, van Opzeeland I, Boebel O. The influence of sea ice, wind speed and marine mammals on Southern Ocean ambient noise. R. Soc. open sci (RSOS). 2017 4 160370; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160370

[18] *Gerum R, Richter S, Fabry B, and Zitterbart DP ClickPoints: an expandable toolbox for scientific image annotation and analysis. Methods in Ecolology and Evolution, MEE (2016), https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12702

[17] *Thomisch K, Boebel O, Clark CW, Hagen W, Spiesecke S, Zitterbart DP, Van Opzeeland I. Spatio-temporal patterns in acoustic presence and distribution of Antarctic blue whales Balaenoptera musculus intermedia in the Weddell Sea. Endang Species Res 30:239-253 (2016) https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00739

[16] Cristofari R, Bertorelle G, Ancel A, Benazzo A, Le Maho Y, Ponganis PJ, Stenseth NC, Trathan PN, Whittington JD, Zanetti E, Zitterbart DP, Le Bohec C & Trucchi E. Full circumpolar migration ensures evolutionary unity in the Emperor penguin. Nature Communications, 7:11842, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11842 (2016).

[15] Fais A, Lewis TP, Zitterbart DP, Álvarez O, Tejedor A, Aguilar Soto N. Abundance and Distribution of Sperm Whales in the Canary Islands: Can Sperm Whales in the Archipelago Sustain the Current Level of Ship-Strike Mortalities? PLoS ONE 11(3): e0150660. (2016) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150660

[14] *Thomisch K, Boebel O, Zitterbart DP, Samaran F, van Parijs S, van Opzeeland I. Effects of recording duty cycles on passive acoustic data - a case study with baleen whale data. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 138, 267 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4922703

[13] Zitterbart DP, Richter S, Spiekermann G, Behrens LK, Regnery J, Fontes RP, Hänssler T, König-Langlo G, Weller R, Fabry B. Are environmental factors responsible for changed breeding behaviour in emperor penguins? Antarctic Science, 26, pp 563-564, 2014., https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954102014000285

[12] Bombosch A, Zitterbart DP, van Opzeeland IC, Frickenhaus S, Wisz MS, Boebel O. Predictive habitat modelling of humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) and antarctic minke (Balaenoptera bonaerensis) Whales in the southern ocean as a planning tool for seismic surveys. Deep Sea Research I, Volume 91, September 2014, Pages 101-114 , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2014.05.017

[11] *Gerum R, Fabry B, Metzner C, Beaulieu M, Ancel A, Zitterbart DP. Origin of traveling waves in an emperor penguin huddle. New Journal of Physics 15 (2013) 125022 (17pp), https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/12/125022

[10] Zitterbart DP, Kindermann L, Burkhardt E, Boebel O. Round-the-Clock Protection of Whales from Underwater Noise by Thermal Imaging. PLoS ONE 8(8): e71217. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0071217 (2013)

[9] Weissenberger J and Zitterbart DP. Surveillance of Marine Mammals in the Safety Zone around an Air Gun Array with the Help of a 360° Infrared Camera System , SPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production. https://doi.org/10.2118/158038-MS (peer reviewed full conference paper) (2012)

[8] Zitterbart DP., Wienecke B, Butler JP, Fabry B. Coordinated movements prevent jamming in an Emperor penguin huddle. PLoS ONE 6(6): e20260. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020260 (2011)

[7] Mierke CT, Kollmannsberger P, Zitterbart DP, Diez G, Koch TM, Marg S, Ziegler WH, Goldmann WH, Fabry B. Vinculin facilitates cell invasion into 3D collagen matrices. J Biol Chem, 2010, http://www.jbc.org/cgi/doi/10.1074/jbc.M109.087171

[6] Oakes PW, Morin NA, Zitterbart DP., Patel D, Fabry B,Reichner JS, Tang JX. Neutrophil morphology and migration are affected by substrate elasticity. Blood, 2009; https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2008-11-191445

[5] Roesel D, Brabek J, Tolde O, Mierke CT, Zitterbart DP., Raupach C, Bicanova K, Kollmannsberger P, Pankova D, Vesely P, Folk P, Fabry B. Up-Regulation of Rho/ROCK Signaling in Sarcoma Cells Drives Invasion and Increased Generation of Protrusive Forces. Mol Cancer Res 2008 6: 1410-1420, https://doi.org/10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-07-2174

[4] Mierke CT, Zitterbart DP., Kollmannsberger P, Raupach C, Schloetzer-Schrehardt U, Goecke T, Behrens J, Fabry B. Breakdown of barrier function of the endothelium in tumor cell transmigration. Biophys J 2008 94: 2832-2846, https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.107.113613

[3] Mierke CT, Kollmannsberger P, Zitterbart DP, Diez G, Smith J, Fabry B, Goldmann WH. Regulation of cell contractility through vinculin and its domains. Biophys J 94:661-670, 2008, https://doi.org/10.1529/biophysj.107.108472

[2] Metzner C, Raupach C, Zitterbart DP, Fabry B. Simple model of cytoskeletal fluctuations. Phys. Rev. E 76, 021925 (2007), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.76.021925

[1] Raupach C^, Zitterbart DP^, Mierke CT, Metzner C, Mueller FA, Fabry B. (^contributed equally). Stress fluctuations and motion of cytoskeletal-bound markers. Phys. Rev. E 76, 011918 (2007), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.76.011918