Oceanic drivers of sei whale distribution in the North Atlantic

• Published in: NAMMCO Scientific Publications
• Main Authors: Houghton, Lucy, Ramirez-Martinez, Nadya, Mikkelsen, Bjarni, Víkingsson, Gísli, Gunnlaugsson, Thorvaldur, Øien, Nils, Hammond, Philip
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Distribution; Habitat; Cetacean surveys; Sei whale; North Atlantic; Generalized additive models; Predictive maps; Irminger Sea; Balaenoptera borealis; Sei Whale
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/oceanic-drivers-of-sei-whale-distribution-in-the-north-atlantic(99a5206d-3f9c-4145-86a0-f1fbc71166e5).html; https://doi.org/10.7557/3.5211; https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/10023/19951/1/Houghton_2020_NAMMCOSP_Oceanicdrivers_CC.pdf

This study investigated the oceanic drivers of sei whale ( Balaenoptera borealis ) distribution in the central and eastern North Atlantic, and explored how distribution may have changed over almost three decades. Cetacean sightings data were available from Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian surveys co...