Abundance, behavior, and movement patterns of western gray whales in relation to a 3-D seismic survey, Northeast Sakhalin Island, Russia

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 134, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 75-91

  Gailey, Glenn ^a   Würsig, Bernd ^a   McDonald, Trent L ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT GALVESTON   (United States)

^b WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Behavior; Eschrichtius robustus; Geophysical seismic survey; Movement; Russia; Sakhalin Island; Western gray whale

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MARINE BIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SEISMOLOGY; SURVEYS;

MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEISMIC EXPLORATION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS;

ABUNDANCE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CORRELATION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FEEDING GROUND; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SEISMIC SURVEY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WHALE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BREATHING MECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHALATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SUMMER; TIME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DATA COLLECTION; LOCOMOTION; NOISE; POPULATION DENSITY; RUSSIA; WHALES;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN; SAKHALIN ISLAND;

CETACEA; ESCHRICHTIIDAE; ESCHRICHTIUS ROBUSTUS;

EID: 35848946119     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9812-1     Document Type: Article

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