Movement patterns and winter habitat use of narwhal (Monodon monoceros) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic

• Main Author: Kenyon, Krista
• Other Authors: Barber, David (Environment and Geography) Ferguson, Steve (Environment and Geography ), Mundy, CJ (Environment and Geography) Marcoux, Marianne (Biological Sciences)
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: migration; animal telemetry; winter sea ice; Greenland halibut; Baffin Bay; bathymetry; habitat selection; Admiralty Inlet; Arctic; Eclipse Sound; Greenland; Baffin; Climate change; Monodon monoceros; narwhal*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/32587

Climate change is reducing the Arctic sea ice concentration and extent and it has been thought that narwhal will be poorly able to adjust. The goal of this thesis was to (a) analyzing narwhal year-round movement, and to (b) examine winter habitat selection in relation to sea ice and bathymetry. Narw...