Range-Wide Comparison of Gray Whale Body Condition Reveals Contrasting Sub-Population Health Characteristics and Vulnerability to Environmental Change

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Torres, Leigh G., Bird, Clara N., Rodríguez-González, Fabian, Christiansen, Fredrik, Bejder, Lars, Lemos, Leila, Urban R, Jorge, Swartz, Steven, Willoughby, Amy, Hewitt, Joshua, Bierlich, KC.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Climate change
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.867258; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.867258/full

Climate change is a global phenomenon, yet impacts on resource availability to predators may be spatially and temporally diverse and asynchronous. As capital breeders, whales are dependent on dense, predictable prey resources during foraging seasons. An Unusual Mortality Event (UME) of Eastern North...