Prey selection of common minke (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and Bryde's (Balaenoptera edeni) whales in the western North Pacific in 2000 and 2001

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 186-201

  Murase, Hiroto ^a   Tamura, Tsutomu ^a   Kiwada, Hiroshi ^a   Fujise, Yoshihiro ^a   Watanabe, Hikaru ^b   Ohizumi, Hiroshi ^b,c   Yonezaki, Shiroh ^b   Okamura, Hiroshi ^b   Kawahara, Shigeyuki ^b  

^a Institute of Cetacean Research   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bryde's whale; Common minke whale; Japanese anchovy; Krill; Prey selection; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDER; ESTIMATION METHOD; PREY SELECTION; SAMPLING; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

BALAENOPTERA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; BALAENOPTERA EDENI; CETACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS JAPONICUS; EUPHAUSIACEA; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 33847412484     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2006.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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