From Greenland to Canada in ten days: Tracks of bowhead whales, balaena mysticetus, across Baffin Bay

Arctic

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-31

  Heide Jorgensen M P ^a,b   Laidre, K L ^c   Wiig, O ^d   Jensen, M V ^a   Dueck, L ^e   Maiers, L D ^e   Schmidt, H C ^a   Hobbs, R C ^b  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e FRESHWATER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baffin Bay; Balaena mysticetus; Bowhead whale; Canada; Dive behavior; Greenland; Satellite telemetry; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; TAGGING; TELEMETRY; WHALE;

CANADA; GREENLAND;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038661712     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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