Data from: An integrated approach to historical population assessment of the great whales: case of the New Zealand southern right whale

• Main Authors: Jackson, Jennifer A., Carroll, Emma L., Smith, Tim D., Zerbini, Alex N., Patenaude, Nathalie J., Baker, C. Scott
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; whaling; historical abundance; bottleneck; Eubalaena; recovery; 200 years; southern right whale; population dynamics; Southwest Pacific; New Zealand; Sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands; envir; geo; Antarctic; Pacific; Carroll; Antarc*; Auckland Islands; Southern Right Whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c3s62

Accurate estimation of historical abundance provides an essential baseline for judging the recovery of the great whales. This is particularly challenging for whales hunted prior to twentieth century modern whaling, as population-level catch records are often incomplete. Assessments of whale recovery...