Editorial: Whales and climate
Baleen whales have exhibited alterations from their traditional migration, breeding, and feeding patterns in recent years (Ramp et al., 2015; Moore et al., 2019). Climate change is recognised as a key factor driving these shifts, leading to concerns about the recovery of whale populations. Whales fa...
| Published in: | Frontiers in Marine Science |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Frontiers Media SA
2023
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/428215 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1347360 |
| Summary: | Baleen whales have exhibited alterations from their traditional migration, breeding, and feeding patterns in recent years (Ramp et al., 2015; Moore et al., 2019). Climate change is recognised as a key factor driving these shifts, leading to concerns about the recovery of whale populations. Whales face heightened vulnerability due to their extensive seasonal migrations, exposure to extreme climatic conditions from polar feeding grounds to tropical breeding grounds within a few months each year, low reproduction rates and long lifespans (Tyack, 1986; Corkeron and Connor, 1999). The future population recovery of all baleen whales is intricately tied to climate change and its impact on their feeding and breeding habitats (Thomas et al., 2016; Tulloch et al., 2019) (Figure 1). Full Text |
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