Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry
Satellite-monitored radio tags were attached to North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Grand Manan Basin of the lower Bay of Fundy during the summer and early fall seasons of 19891991 and 2000. Monte Carlo tests were used to examine the distribution of the tagged whales in space and t...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/f04-238 2024-09-15T18:00:41+00:00 Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry Baumgartner, Mark F Mate, Bruce R 2005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f04-238 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/f04-238 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences volume 62, issue 3, page 527-543 ISSN 0706-652X 1205-7533 journal-article 2005 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/f04-238 2024-08-15T04:09:30Z Satellite-monitored radio tags were attached to North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Grand Manan Basin of the lower Bay of Fundy during the summer and early fall seasons of 19891991 and 2000. Monte Carlo tests were used to examine the distribution of the tagged whales in space and time and with respect to a variety of environmental variables to characterize right whale habitat on their northern feeding grounds. These environmental variables included depth, depth gradient, climatological surface and bottom hydrographic properties, and remotely sensed surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and their respective horizontal gradients. Site fidelity in the Bay of Fundy was very low during 19891991 and high during 2000. When the tagged animals left the Bay, they did not frequently visit the deep basins of the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf, where abundances of their primary copepod prey, Calanus finmarchicus, are thought to be high. Instead, right whales visited areas characterized by low bottom water temperatures, high surface salinity, and high surface stratification. No evidence was found that the tagged right whales associated with oceanic fronts or regions with high standing stocks of phytoplankton. Article in Journal/Newspaper Calanus finmarchicus Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic Canadian Science Publishing Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62 3 527 543 |
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Satellite-monitored radio tags were attached to North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Grand Manan Basin of the lower Bay of Fundy during the summer and early fall seasons of 19891991 and 2000. Monte Carlo tests were used to examine the distribution of the tagged whales in space and time and with respect to a variety of environmental variables to characterize right whale habitat on their northern feeding grounds. These environmental variables included depth, depth gradient, climatological surface and bottom hydrographic properties, and remotely sensed surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and their respective horizontal gradients. Site fidelity in the Bay of Fundy was very low during 19891991 and high during 2000. When the tagged animals left the Bay, they did not frequently visit the deep basins of the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf, where abundances of their primary copepod prey, Calanus finmarchicus, are thought to be high. Instead, right whales visited areas characterized by low bottom water temperatures, high surface salinity, and high surface stratification. No evidence was found that the tagged right whales associated with oceanic fronts or regions with high standing stocks of phytoplankton. |
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Baumgartner, Mark F Mate, Bruce R Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales ( Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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summer and fall habitat of north atlantic right whales ( eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry |
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Calanus finmarchicus Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic |
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Calanus finmarchicus Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic |
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