An important late summer aggregation of fin whales Balaenoptera physalus, little auks Alle alle and Brünnichs Guillemots Uria lomvia in the eastern Greenland Sea and Fram Strait: influence of hydrographic structures

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Joiris, Claude, Falck, Eva, D´Hert, Diederik, Jungblut, Simon, Boos, Karin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: SPRINGER 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Fulmar; Greenland; Alle alle; Balaenoptera physalus; Fram Strait; Fulmarus glacialis; Greenland Sea; Lagenorhynchus albirostris; little auk; Polar Biology; rissa tridactyla; Uria lomvia; White-beaked dolphin; Spitsbergen; uria
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/41018/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.49007

The distribution at sea of upper trophic levels—seabirds and marine mammals—is depending on their food availability: high concentrations reflect high prey abundance and thus high biological production. Polar marine ecosystems are characterized by low biodiversity and high biological patchiness. The...