Killer whale (Orcinus orca) photo-identification in the eastern Canadian Arctic

Polar Research

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Young, Brent G ^a,b   Higdon, Jeff W ^a,b   Ferguson, Steven H ^a,b  

^a FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Baffin island; Canada; Distribution; High arctic; Hudson bay; Photographs

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PHOTOGRAPH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; WHALE;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; HUDSON BAY;

EID: 84862145721     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v30i0.7203     Document Type: Article

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