Modelling beluga habitat use and baseline exposure to shipping traffic to design effective protection against prospective industrialization in the Canadian Arctic

• Published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
• Main Authors: Pirotta, Enrico, New, Leslie, Marcoux, Marianne
• Other Authors: Fisheries and Oceans’ Nunavut Implementation Fund, Strategic Program for Ecosystem-Based Research and Advice (DFO)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Lanes; Beluga; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2892; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Faqc.2892; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/aqc.2892

Abstract Global warming is predicted to reduce sea ice and thereby grant access to new shipping routes in the Arctic, leading to the expansion of human exploitation of natural resources in this region. The accompanying rise in boat numbers could impact the local populations of marine mammals by incr...