Birth-Intervals and Sex Composition of Western Gray Whales Summering off Sakhalin Island, Russia

• Main Authors: Weller, David W., Bradford, Amanda L., Lang, Aimée R., Brownell, Robert L., Jr., Burdin, Alexander M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2009
• Subjects: Environmental Sciences; Barlow; Pacific; Weller; baleen whale; baleen whales; Sakhalin
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usdeptcommercepub/128; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/usdeptcommercepub/article/1125/viewcontent/Brownell_SC61BRG10_Birth_intervals_and_sex.pdf

Determining the birth-interval at which reproductive females produce calves is an indispensable component of studies on the population biology of large whales. In theory, shorter birth-intervals will result in a faster rate of population increase. Therefore, estimating this reproductive parameter is...