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dc.contributor.authorBranch, T.
dc.contributor.authorStafford, K.
dc.contributor.authorPalacios, D.
dc.contributor.authorAllison, C.
dc.contributor.authorBannister, J.
dc.contributor.authorBurton, C.
dc.contributor.authorCabrera, E.
dc.contributor.authorCarlson, C.
dc.contributor.authorGalletti Vernazzani, B.
dc.contributor.authorGill, P.
dc.contributor.authorHucke-Gaete, R.
dc.contributor.authorJenner, K.
dc.contributor.authorJenner, M.
dc.contributor.authorMatsuoka, K.
dc.contributor.authorMikhalev, Y.
dc.contributor.authorMiyashita, T.
dc.contributor.authorMorrice, M.
dc.contributor.authorNishiwaki, S.
dc.contributor.authorSturrock, V.
dc.contributor.authorTormosov, D.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, R.
dc.contributor.authorBaker, A.
dc.contributor.authorBest, P.
dc.contributor.authorBorsa, P.
dc.contributor.authorBrownell, R.
dc.contributor.authorChilderhouse, S.
dc.contributor.authorFindlay, K.
dc.contributor.authorGerrodette, T.
dc.contributor.authorIlangakoon, A.
dc.contributor.authorJoergensen, M.
dc.contributor.authorKahn, B.
dc.contributor.authorLjungblad, D.
dc.contributor.authorMaughan, B.
dc.contributor.authorMcCauley, Robert
dc.contributor.authorMckay, S.
dc.contributor.authorNorris, T.
dc.contributor.authorRankin, S.
dc.contributor.authorSamaran, F.
dc.contributor.authorThiele, D.
dc.contributor.authorVan Waerebeek, K.
dc.contributor.authorWarneke, R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:32:27Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:32:27Z
dc.date.created2010-04-29T20:02:51Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationBranch, T and Stafford, K and Palacios, D and Allison, C and Bannister, J and Burton, C and Cabrera, E et al. 2007. Past and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean. Mammal Review. 37 (2): pp. 116-175.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32692
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1365-2907.2007.00106.x
dc.description.abstract

1. Blue whale locations in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean were obtained from catches (303 239), sightings (4383 records of 8058 whales), strandings (103), Discovery marks (2191) and recoveries (95), and acoustic recordings. 2. Sighting surveys included 7 480 450 km of effort plus 14 676 days with unmeasured effort. Groups usually consisted of solitary whales (65.2%) or pairs (24.6%); larger feeding aggregations of unassociated individuals were only rarely observed. Sighting rates (groups per 1000 km from many platform types) varied by four orders of magnitude and were lowest in the waters of Brazil, South Africa, the eastern tropical Pacific, Antarctica and South Georgia; higher in the Subantarctic and Peru; and highest around Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Chile, southern Australia and south of Madagascar. 3. Blue whales avoid the oligotrophic central gyres of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but are more common where phytoplankton densities are high, and where there are dynamic oceanographic processes like upwelling and frontal meandering. 4. Compared with historical catches, the Antarctic ("true") subspecies is exceedingly rare and usually concentrated closer to the summer pack ice. In summer they are found throughout the Antarctic; in winter they migrate to southern Africa (although recent sightings there are rare) and to other northerly locations (based on acoustics), although some overwinter in the Antarctic. 5. Pygmy blue whales are found around the Indian Ocean and from southern Australia to New Zealand. At least four groupings are evident: northern Indian Ocean, from Madagascar to the Subantarctic, Indonesia to western and southern Australia, and from New Zealand northwards to the equator. Sighting rates are typically much higher than for Antarctic bluewhales.

dc.publisherThe Mammal Society
dc.titlePast and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume37
dcterms.source.number2
dcterms.source.startPage116
dcterms.source.endPage175
dcterms.source.issn03051838
dcterms.source.titleMammal Review
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Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

curtin.departmentCentre for Marine Science & Technology (COE)
curtin.accessStatusOpen access via publisher
curtin.facultyCentre for Marine Science and Technology (CMST)
curtin.facultyFaculty of Science and Engineering


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