The Northwest Passage opens for bowhead whales
The loss of Arctic sea ice is predicted to open up the Northwest Passage, shortening shipping routes and facilitating the exchange of marine organisms between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Here, we present the first observations of distribution overlap of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) f...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3297376 2023-05-15T14:52:46+02:00 The Northwest Passage opens for bowhead whales Heide-Jørgensen, Mads Peter Laidre, Kristin L. Quakenbush, Lori T. Citta, John J. 2012-04-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297376 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21937490 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0731 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297376 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21937490 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0731 This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Global Change Biology Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0731 2013-09-04T03:46:18Z The loss of Arctic sea ice is predicted to open up the Northwest Passage, shortening shipping routes and facilitating the exchange of marine organisms between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Here, we present the first observations of distribution overlap of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the two oceans in the Northwest Passage, demonstrating this route is already connecting whales from two populations that have been assumed to be separated by sea ice. Previous satellite tracking has demonstrated that bowhead whales from West Greenland and Alaska enter the ice-infested channels of the Canadian High Arctic during summer. In August 2010, two bowhead whales from West Greenland and Alaska entered the Northwest Passage from opposite directions and spent approximately 10 days in the same area, documenting overlap between the two populations. Text Arctic Balaena mysticetus Greenland Northwest passage Sea ice Alaska PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Greenland Northwest Passage Pacific Biology Letters 8 2 270 273 |
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The loss of Arctic sea ice is predicted to open up the Northwest Passage, shortening shipping routes and facilitating the exchange of marine organisms between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. Here, we present the first observations of distribution overlap of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) from the two oceans in the Northwest Passage, demonstrating this route is already connecting whales from two populations that have been assumed to be separated by sea ice. Previous satellite tracking has demonstrated that bowhead whales from West Greenland and Alaska enter the ice-infested channels of the Canadian High Arctic during summer. In August 2010, two bowhead whales from West Greenland and Alaska entered the Northwest Passage from opposite directions and spent approximately 10 days in the same area, documenting overlap between the two populations. |
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