Southern Hemisphere Breeding Stock D humpback whale population estimates from North West Cape, Western Australia

• Main Authors: Kent, Chandra Salgado, Jenner, Curt, Jenner, Micheline, Bouchet, Phil J, Rexstad, Eric
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Center for Open Science 2019
• Subjects: West Cape; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.31230/osf.io/m94xh

Estimates of the abundance of Breeding Stock D humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are key to the conservation and management of what is thought to be one of the largest populations of the species. Five years (2000, 2001, 2006, 2007 and 2008) of aerial surveys carried out over an eight-year per...