Inferring energy expenditure from respiration rates in minke whales to measure the effects of whale watching boat interactions

• Main Authors: Christiansen, F., Rasmussen, M.H., Lusseau, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2014
• Subjects: Faxaflói; Balaenoptera acutorostrata; Iceland; minke whale
• Online Access: https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/28955/

Quantifying the energetic costs of human induced behavioral disturbance on wildlife is a crucial step to evaluate the potential long-term effects of disturbance on individual vital rates. Standard methods cannot be used for estimating energetic cost of transport because of the large size of most cet...