Methodological details and supplementary figures and Table from The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding
Spitsbergen's bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) were hunted to near extinction in the world's first commercial whaling enterprise; this population clearly remains threatened, but nothing is known about its distribution, making assessment unfeasible. In this study, we document range, mo...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.12402830 2023-05-15T15:04:30+02:00 Methodological details and supplementary figures and Table from The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding Kovacs, Kit M. Lydersen, Christian Vacquiè-Garcia, Jade Shpak, Olga Glazov, Dmitry Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter 2020 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12402830 https://rs.figshare.com/articles/Methodological_details_and_supplementary_figures_and_Table_from_The_endangered_Spitsbergen_bowhead_whales_secrets_revealed_after_hundreds_of_years_in_hiding/12402830 unknown The Royal Society https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0148 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY Ecology FOS Biological sciences Text article-journal Journal contribution ScholarlyArticle 2020 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12402830 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0148 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Spitsbergen's bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) were hunted to near extinction in the world's first commercial whaling enterprise; this population clearly remains threatened, but nothing is known about its distribution, making assessment unfeasible. In this study, we document range, movement patterns and habitat preferences of this population, based on tagging done from an icebreaker-based helicopter. Despite their reduced abundance, Spitsbergen's bowhead whales occupy much of their historical range, stretching across the northern Barents Region from East Greenland eastward to Franz Josef Land. Unlike larger bowhead populations to the west, they do not migrate in a classical sense, but rather disperse from wintering grounds in the northernmost parts of their range during spring, returning northward again in autumn, a pattern opposite in terms of directionality compared to other Arctic bowhead whale populations. The extreme affiliation of this population with cold, ice-filled waters is a concern given ongoing climate warming and concomitant rapid sea ice habitat loss. Text Arctic Balaena mysticetus barents region bowhead whale East Greenland Franz Josef Land Greenland Sea ice Spitsbergen DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic Greenland Franz Josef Land ENVELOPE(55.000,55.000,81.000,81.000) |
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Spitsbergen's bowhead whales ( Balaena mysticetus ) were hunted to near extinction in the world's first commercial whaling enterprise; this population clearly remains threatened, but nothing is known about its distribution, making assessment unfeasible. In this study, we document range, movement patterns and habitat preferences of this population, based on tagging done from an icebreaker-based helicopter. Despite their reduced abundance, Spitsbergen's bowhead whales occupy much of their historical range, stretching across the northern Barents Region from East Greenland eastward to Franz Josef Land. Unlike larger bowhead populations to the west, they do not migrate in a classical sense, but rather disperse from wintering grounds in the northernmost parts of their range during spring, returning northward again in autumn, a pattern opposite in terms of directionality compared to other Arctic bowhead whale populations. The extreme affiliation of this population with cold, ice-filled waters is a concern given ongoing climate warming and concomitant rapid sea ice habitat loss. |
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Methodological details and supplementary figures and Table from The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding |
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Methodological details and supplementary figures and Table from The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding |
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Methodological details and supplementary figures and Table from The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding |
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Methodological details and supplementary figures and Table from The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding |
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