Winter and spring diving behavior of bowhead whales relative to prey

Animal Biotelemetry

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Heide Jørgensen, Mads Peter ^a   Laidre, Kristin L ^b   Nielsen, Nynne H ^a   Hansen, Rikke G ^a   Røstad, Anders ^c,d  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Arctic; Bowhead whale; Calanus; Copepods; Diving behavior; FastLoc GPS tags; Feeding; Greenland

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018192745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20503385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2050-3385-1-15     Document Type: Article

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