Southern hemisphere breeding stock 'D' humpback whale population estimates from North West Cape, Western Australia

• Main Authors: Salgado Kent, Chandra, Jenner, C., Jenner, M., Bouchet, P., Rexstad, E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: International Whaling Commission 2012
• Subjects: trends; migration; humpback whale; Australasia; abundance estimate; survey-aerial; modelling; West Cape; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34750

Estimates of the abundance of Breeding Stock D humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are key to the conservation and management of what is thought to be one of the largest populations of the species. Five years (2000, 2001, 2006, 2007 and 2008) of aerial surveys carried out over an eight-year per...