Contrasting ecological information content in whaling archives with modern cetacean surveys for conservation planning and identification of historical distribution changes

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Authors: Letessier, Tom B., Mannocci, Laura, Goodwin, Brittney, Embling, Clare, de Vos, Asha, Anderson, R. Charles, Ingram, Simon N., Rogan, Andy, Turvey, Samuel T.
• Other Authors: Fondation Bertarelli
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Indian; Yankee; Physeter macrocephalus; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14043; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/cobi.14043; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/cobi.14043

Abstract Many species are restricted to a marginal or suboptimal fraction of their historical range due to anthropogenic impacts, making it hard to interpret their ecological preferences from modern‐day data alone. However, inferring past ecological states is limited by the availability of robust da...