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The influence of local fidelity and recruitment on population dynamics and specialized foraging of humpback whales in Glacier Bay and Icy Strait, Alaska

Creator:

Pierszalowski, Sophie Penny

Abstract:

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae, Borowski 1781) in the North Pacific migrate from mid- to high- latitude summer feeding grounds along the Pacific Rim, including areas off the coasts of the U.S., Canada, Russia and eastern Asia, to tropical breeding grounds each winter along Pacific coasts of Mexico and Central America...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis

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Population Dynamics and Specialized Foraging of Humpback Whales in Glacier Bay and Icy Strait, Alaska
Aspects of the foraging ecology of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Frederick Sound and Stephens Passage, Southeast Alaska

Creator:

Szabo, Andrew R.

Abstract:

The North Pacific humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) population has been increasing at an average annual rate of ~6% since the early 1990s. In northern Southeast Alaska alone, there are now more whales than estimated for the entire North Pacific several decades ago. An understanding of how this growing population is...

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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, Southeast Alaska during surveys 1 through 6 in summer 2008 overlaid on the humpback whale and prey