Supplementary material from "The endangered Spitsbergen bowhead whales' secrets revealed after hundreds of years in hiding"

• Main Authors: Kovacs, Kit M., Lydersen, Christian, Vacquiè-Garcia, Jade, Shpak, Olga, Glazov, Dmitry, Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Royal Society 2020
• Subjects: Ecology; FOS Biological sciences; Arctic; Greenland; Franz Josef Land; Balaena mysticetus; barents region; bowhead whale; East Greenland; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5001080; https://rs.figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_The_endangered_Spitsbergen_bowhead_whales_secrets_revealed_after_hundreds_of_years_in_hiding_/5001080

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...