Maria Jedensjö

Successful wildlife conservation and management requires baseline information on species identity and distribution. Yet this is lacking for Australian bottlenose dolphins through taxonomic uncertainty. Since bottlenose dolphins are subject to a suite of human impacts, there is a need to address this uncertainty. My PhD research aims to integrate morphological (osteological and geometric morphometrics methods) and genetic techniques (such as microsatellite genotyping and DNA sequencing) to clarify the taxonomic status, distribution and structure of the genus Tursiops in Australian. This approach is possible through our unprecedented access to a large number of specimens, collected by collaborators and museums

Our objectives are to:

• Combine morphological and genetic data from Australian Tursiops in order to evaluate whether consistent and concordant differences are found between species/forms
• Assess population genetic structure and gene flow between species/forms identified in 1

PhD Program in Evolutionary Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland (2009-ongoing)
MSc. Department of Undergraduate Studies in Biology, Lund University (2006)
BSc. Department of Undergraduate Studies in Biology, Lund University (2004)

“The effect of violated guidelines on the behaviour of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins off the South coast of Zanzibar”. Submitted to Lund University, Sweden 2006.

Jedensjö, M., Kemper, C. and Krützen, M. Osteological and genetic variation of bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops spp, from Australia. Talk presented at the 58th Scientific Conference at the Marine Symposium, Australia Mammal Society, Port Augusta, Australia, 23-26 September 2012.

Jedensjö, M., Kemper, C., Zollikofer, C. and Krützen, M. Assessing the taxonomic status of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops spp.) in Australia using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. Poster presented at the 26th annual conference on Information and Ideas Worth Sharing, European Cetacean Society, Galway, Ireland,26-28 March 2012

Jedensjö, M., Kemper, C., Zollikofer, C. and Krützen, M. Assessingthe taxonomic status of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiopsspp.) in Australia using three-dimensional geometric morphometrics. Poster presented at the 19th Biennial conference on the biology of marine mammals, the Society for Marine Mammalogy, Tampa, Florida, USA, 26 November-2 December 2011

Parra, G. J. and Jedensjo, M. Feeding habits of Australian Snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis): is there potential for interspecific competition for food? Poster presented at the 18th Biennial Conference on the biology of marine mammals, the Society for Marine Mammalogy, Quebec, Canada, 12-16 October 2009.

Jedensjo, M. and Parra, G. J. Feeding habits of Australian Snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis): is there potential for interspecific competition for food? Poster presented at the 46th Annual Conference, Australian Marine Sciences Association; Marine Connectivity. Adelaide, South Australia, 6-9 July 2009.

Dr. Catherine Kemper, South Australian Museum (PhD supervisor)
Dr. Daniele Cagnazzi, Sothern Cross University, Australia
Dr. William Sherwin, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Lars Bejder, Murdoch University, Australia
Dr. Guido Parra, Flinders University, Australia
Simon Allen, Murdoch University, Australia
Dr. Kate Charlton-Robb, Melbourne Museum, Australia
Carol Palmer, Charls Darwin University, Australia