The Northwest Passage opens for bowhead whales

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 270-273

  Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^a   Laidre, Kristin L ^b   Quakenbush, Lori T ^c   Citta, John J ^c  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Bowhead whale; Climate change; Northwest Passage; Sea ice

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SHIPPING; TRACKING; WHALE;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; GREENLAND; NORTHWEST PASSAGE; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 84860329086     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0731     Document Type: Article

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