Exploring Geographic Variation in Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus) Calls From Two Passive Acoustic Monitoring Sites Revealing Population Identities Across the Weddell Sea, Antarctica

• Main Author: Field, Victoria R.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Greenwich; Elephant Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; Balaenoptera physalus; Fin whale
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55894/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/55894/1/Field_MSc_Thesis_Fin_Whales_2021.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.20b1ff1d-9081-493a-80ce-549fbcb25fd4; https://hdl.handle.net/

Currently, little is known about the population identity of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in Antarctic waters but initial analyses of acoustic recordings from the Southern Ocean (SO) have shown that fin whale calls differ between regions, possibly representing different fin whale populations. I...