Fine-Scale Population Structure of Blue Whale Wintering Aggregations in the Gulf of California

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Costa-Urrutia, Paula, Sanvito, Simona, Victoria-Cota, Nelva, Enríquez-Paredes, Luis, Gendron, Diane
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2013
• Subjects: Research Article; San Jose; Blue whale
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591444; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505485; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058315

Population differentiation in environments without well-defined geographical barriers represents a challenge for wildlife management. Based on a comprehensive database of individual sighting records (1988–2009) of blue whales from the winter/calving Gulf of California, we assessed the fine-scale gen...