This collection contain articles dealing with issues such as critical habitat, acoustics, behaviour, conservation and management, ecology, life history, medicine and diseases, physiology, and stock identity and distribution.
The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society was held at University College Cork in Ireland between 2nd and 5th April 2000. It was attended by just under 400 people from 31 countries. The theme this year was "Cetaceans in the Ecosystem: Defining Critical Habitat".