Summer and Autumn Movements and Habitat Use by Belugas in the Canadian High Arctic and Adjacent Areas

ABSTRACT. Twenty-one adult belugas (8M, 13F) were live-captured and instrumented with satellite-linked transmitters in the summer and fall of 1996. Twelve were captured in estuaries along the coast of Somerset Island in July and nine were captured in September in Croker Bay, SE Devon Island. This pa...

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Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
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Key words
beluga
Delphinapterus leucas
dive recording
High Arctic
North Water
satellite-linked tracking
swimming speed
Arctic
Croker
Croker Bay
Devon Island
Somerset Island
Beluga
Beluga*
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.534.1645
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic54-3-207.pdf
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Summary:ABSTRACT. Twenty-one adult belugas (8M, 13F) were live-captured and instrumented with satellite-linked transmitters in the summer and fall of 1996. Twelve were captured in estuaries along the coast of Somerset Island in July and nine were captured in September in Croker Bay, SE Devon Island. This paper reports on the summer and autumn movements and dive depths of these

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