Bowhead whales feed on plankton concentrated by estuarine and tidal currents in Academy Bay, Sea of Okhotsk

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1811-1826

  Rogachev, Konstantin A ^a   Carmack, Eddy C ^b   Foreman, Michael G G ^b  

^a IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bowhead whales; Estuarine and tidal circulation; Zooplankton aggregation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTICYCLONE; BIVALVE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING GROUND; FOOD SUPPLY; PLANKTON; ROTATION; SUMMER; TIDAL CURRENT; VERTICAL MIGRATION; WHALE; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF OKHOTSK;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CALANOIDA; CALANUS GLACIALIS; CHAETOGNATHA; COPEPODA; LIMACINA HELICINA; MOLLUSCA; PSEUDOCALANUS; PTEROPODA; SAGITTA;

EID: 47649105363     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.04.014     Document Type: Article

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