Identifying key habitat and seasonal patterns of a critically endangered population of killer whales

• Published in: Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom
• Main Authors: Esteban, Ruth, Verborgh, Philippe, Gauffier, Pauline, Giménez, Joan, Afán, Isabel, García, Pedro, Murcia, José Luis, Magalhães, Sara, Andreu, Ezequiel, de Stephanis, Renaud
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2014
• Subjects: Killer whale; Orcinus orca; Distribution; Spatial modelling; Generalized additive models (GAM); Cetaceans; Strait of Gibraltar; Souther Iberian Peninsula; Gam; Killer Whale; Orca
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/101538; https://doi.org/10.1017/S002531541300091X

Killer whales have been described in the Gulf of Cadiz, southern Spain, in spring and in the Strait of Gibraltar in summer. A total of 11,276 cetaceans sightings coming from different sources (dedicated research surveys, whale watching companies and opportunistic observations) were used to create tw...