Larger body size leads to greater female beluga whale ovarian reproductive activity at the southern periphery of their range

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Ferguson, Steven H., Yurkowski, David J., Hudson, Justine M., Edkins, Tera, Willing, Cornelia, Watt, Cortney A.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Ora; Baffin; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8367; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.8367; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.8367

Abstract Identification of phenotypic characteristics in reproductively successful individuals provides important insights into the evolutionary processes that cause range shifts due to environmental change. Female beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas ) from the Baffin Bay region (BB) of the Canadi...