Adapting to a warmer ocean - Seasonal shift of baleen whale movements over three decades

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ramp, Christian ^a,b   Delarue, Julien ^a   Palsbøll, Per J ^c   Sears, Richard ^a   Hammond, Philip S ^b  

^a MINGAN ISLAND CETACEAN STUDY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; BREEDING; CANADA; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEEDING; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; NONHUMAN; NORTH ATLANTIC DEEP WATER; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WHALE; WINTER; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMPBACK WHALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEA; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA PHYSALUS; MEGAPTERA; MEGAPTERA NOVAEANGLIAE; MYSTICETI;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMPBACK WHALE; MOVEMENT; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEASONS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84925428046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121374     Document Type: Article

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