Assessing the pathogen landscape in beluga whales: a scoping review protocol

• Main Author: Sudlovenick, Enooyaq
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Open Science Framework 2022
• Subjects: Immunology and Infectious Disease; Other Immunology and Infectious Disease; Life Sciences; Biology; Zoology; FOS Biological sciences; Animal Sciences; beluga; beluga whale; delphinapterus leucas; pathogens; Arctic; Northwest Territories; Hudson Bay; Hudson; Lair; Lockhart; Beluga; Beluga whale; Beluga*; Delphinapterus leucas; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/7t5ra; https://osf.io/7t5ra/

In the recent years, there have been a number of reports by northern communities of dead beluga washing ashore along the coasts of Alaska, Northwest Territories, and Hudson Bay. With little to no access to these whales and few veterinary or scientific personnel in the Arctic, it has been very rare t...