Summertime foraging ecology of North Atlantic right whales

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 264, Issue , 2003, Pages 123-135

  Baumgartner, Mark F ^a,b   Mate, Bruce R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Calanus finmarchicus; Diving behavior; Energetics; Eubalaena glacialis; Right whale

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INGESTION RATE; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BALAENIDAE; CALANUS; CALANUS FINMARCHICUS; CETACEA; COPEPODA; EUBALAENA; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 1642564076     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps264123     Document Type: Article

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