Movement and aggregation of eastern Hudson Bay beluga whales {delphinapterus leucas): A comparison of patterns found through satellite telemetry and nunavik Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Arctic

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-24

  Lewis, A E ^a,b   Hammill, M O ^c   Power, M ^b   Doidge, D W ^a   Lesage, V ^c  

^a Makivik Corporation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beluga whales; Home range; Hudson Bay; Hudson strait; Kernel; Labrador sea; Resource management; Telemetry; Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK); Ungava bay

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GIS; MOVEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TELEMETRY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WHALE;

CANADA; HUDSON BAY; NORTH AMERICA;

CETACEA; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS;

EID: 64549118734     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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