Individual and joint estimation of humpback whale migratory patterns and their environmental drivers in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Luis Bedriñana-Romano, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Artur Andriolo, Daniel Danilewicz, Federico Sucunza
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Scotia Sea; Weddell; Curl; Humpback Whale; Megaptera novaeangliae
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11536-7; https://doaj.org/article/1c34bf11b1284b13a4cc57412c797f77

Abstract Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) perform seasonal migrations from high latitude feeding grounds to low latitude breeding and calving grounds. Feeding grounds at polar regions are currently experiencing major ecosystem modifications, therefore, quantitatively assessing species respon...