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    Summer and fall habitat of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) inferred from satellite telemetry

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    2005-04-12
    Author
    Baumgartner, Mark F.  Concept link
    Mate, Bruce R.  Concept link
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    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/227
    As published
    https://doi.org/10.1139/F04-238
    DOI
    10.1139/F04-238
    Keyword
     North Atlantic right whales; Eubalaena glacialis; Distribution; Habitat 
    Abstract
    Satellite-monitored radio tags were attached to North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Grand Manan Basin of the lower Bay of Fundy during the summer and early fall seasons of 1989–1991 and 2000. Monte Carlo tests were used to examine the distribution of the tagged whales in space and time and with respect to a variety of environmental variables to characterize right whale habitat on their northern feeding grounds. These environmental variables included depth, depth gradient, climatological surface and bottom hydrographic properties, and remotely sensed surface temperature, chlorophyll concentration, and their respective horizontal gradients. Site fidelity in the Bay of Fundy was very low during 1989–1991 and high during 2000. When the tagged animals left the Bay, they did not frequently visit the deep basins of the Gulf of Maine and Scotian Shelf, where abundances of their primary copepod prey, Calanus finmarchicus, are thought to be high. Instead, right whales visited areas characterized by low bottom water temperatures, high surface salinity, and high surface stratification. No evidence was found that the tagged right whales associated with oceanic fronts or regions with high standing stocks of phytoplankton.
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    Author Posting. © National Research Council Canada, 2005. This article is posted here by permission of National Research Council Canada for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62 (2005): 527-543, doi:10.1139/F04-238.
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    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62 (2005): 527-543
     

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