Lost highway not forgotten: Satellite tracking of a Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus) from the critically endangered Spitsbergen stock

Arctic

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 76-86

  Lydersen, Christian ^a   Freitas, Carla ^a   Wiig, Øystein ^b   Bachmann, Lutz ^b   Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^c   Swift, René ^d   Kovacs, Kit M ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Balaena mysticetus; Bowhead whale; First passage time; Habitat use; Satellite tracking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT USE; ICE COVER; MOVEMENT; OVERWINTERING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TAGGING; TRACKING; WHALE;

ARCTIC; FRAM STRAIT; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 84858598511     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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