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Summertime foraging ecology of North Atlantic right whales

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Baumgartner, Mark F. and Mate, Bruce R.

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North Atlantic right whales were instrumented with suction-cup mounted, time-depth recorders (TDR) during the summers of 2000 and 2001 to examine their diving and foraging behavior. Simultaneous observations of temperature, salinity and the vertical distribution of their principal prey, Calanus finmarchicus stage 5 copepodites (C5), were obtained alon g each...

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right whales diving to depths below 100 m in the lower Bay of Fundy. We report here on a study of right
North Atlantic right whale habitat in the lower Bay of Fundy and on the SW Scotian Shelf during 1999–2001

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Baumgartner, Mark F., Cole, Tim V. N., Clapham, Phillip J., and Mate, Bruce R.

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Simultaneous visual and oceanographic surveys were conducted in the lower Bay of Fundy and in Roseway Basin of the SW Scotian Shelf during the summers of 1999 to 2001 to investigate the physical and biological oceanographic factors associated with North Atlantic right whale occurrence. Sightings of right whales were recorded...

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