Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea
The bowhead whale is the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and is well adapted to this environment. Bowheads live near the polar ice edge for much of the year and although sea ice dynamics are not the only driver of their annual migratory movements, it likely plays a key role. Given the intrin...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4646247 2024-09-15T17:38:53+00:00 Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea Insley, Stephen Halliday, William Mouy, Xavier Diogou, Niki 2021-03-29 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0p7n unknown Zenodo https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0p7n oai:zenodo.org:4646247 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode Balaena mysticetus sea ice bowhead whale info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2021 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rn8pk0p7n 2024-07-25T14:26:43Z The bowhead whale is the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and is well adapted to this environment. Bowheads live near the polar ice edge for much of the year and although sea ice dynamics are not the only driver of their annual migratory movements, it likely plays a key role. Given the intrinsic variability of open water and ice, one might expect bowhead migratory plasticity to be high and linked to this proximate environmental factor. Here, through a network of underwater passive acoustic recorders, we document the first known occurrence of bowheads overwintering in what is normally their summer foraging grounds in the Amundsen Gulf and eastern Beaufort Sea. The underlying question is whether this is the leading edge of a phenological shift in a species' migratory behaviour in an environment undergoing dramatic shifts due to climate change. Other/Unknown Material Amundsen Gulf Balaena mysticetus baleen whale Beaufort Sea bowhead whale Climate change Sea ice Zenodo |
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The bowhead whale is the only baleen whale endemic to the Arctic and is well adapted to this environment. Bowheads live near the polar ice edge for much of the year and although sea ice dynamics are not the only driver of their annual migratory movements, it likely plays a key role. Given the intrinsic variability of open water and ice, one might expect bowhead migratory plasticity to be high and linked to this proximate environmental factor. Here, through a network of underwater passive acoustic recorders, we document the first known occurrence of bowheads overwintering in what is normally their summer foraging grounds in the Amundsen Gulf and eastern Beaufort Sea. The underlying question is whether this is the leading edge of a phenological shift in a species' migratory behaviour in an environment undergoing dramatic shifts due to climate change. |
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Insley, Stephen Halliday, William Mouy, Xavier Diogou, Niki |
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Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea |
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Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea |
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Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea |
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Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea |
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Bowhead whales overwinter in the Amundsen Gulf and Eastern Beaufort Sea |
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bowhead whales overwinter in the amundsen gulf and eastern beaufort sea |
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Amundsen Gulf Balaena mysticetus baleen whale Beaufort Sea bowhead whale Climate change Sea ice |
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