Acoustic detection and satellite-tracking leads to discovery of rare concentration of endangered North Pacific right whales

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 417-419

  Wade, Paul ^a   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^b   Shelden, Kim ^a   Barlow, Jay ^c   Carretta, James ^c   Durban, John ^a   LeDuc, Rick ^c   Munger, Lisa ^d   Rankin, Shannon ^c   Sauter, Allan ^d   Stinchcomb, Charles ^c  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^c SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bering Sea; Eubalaena japonica; Genetics; North Pacific right whale; Satellite monitored radio tag; Sonobuoy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BIOMONITORING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; SATELLITE; TRACKING; WHALE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EUBALAENA JAPONICA; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BALAENIDAE; CETACEA; EUBALAENA JAPONICA;

EID: 33748647962     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0460     Document Type: Article

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