Climate Change and Baleen Whale Trophic Cascades in Greenland

• Main Authors: Laidre, Kristin L, Heide-Joergensen, Mads P
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE POLAR SCIENCE CENTER
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Biological Oceanography; *CLIMATE CHANGE; *WHALES; ARCTIC REGIONS; BAFFIN BAY; FEEDING; FOOD CHAINS; GREENLAND; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ZOOPLANKTON; BALEEN WHALES; BOWHEAD WHALES; HUMPBACK WHALES; TEMPORAL OVERLAP; Arctic; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Nuuk; Baffin; baleen whale; baleen whales; Climate change; Disko Bay; Greenland Institute of Natural Resources; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Zooplankton
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA557943; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA557943

We focused on two cetacean species in Disko Bay, West Greenland and asked the following questions: (1) What is the spatial and temporal overlap between bowhead whales, phytoplankton, and zooplankton after the spring sea ice breakup in April and May? , and (2) What is the spatial and temporal overlap...