Status of the world's baleen whales

PO Thomas, RR Reeves… - Marine Mammal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
No global synthesis of the status of baleen whales has been published since the 2008 IUCN
Red List assessments. Many populations remain at low numbers from historical commercial …

Status review of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) under the Endangered Species Act

SOM Bettridge, CS Baker, J Barlow, P Clapham… - 2015 - repository.library.noaa.gov
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

Advanced image recognition: a fully automated, high-accuracy photo-identification matching system for humpback whales

T Cheeseman, K Southerland, J Park, M Olio… - Mammalian …, 2022 - Springer
We describe the development and application of a new convolutional neural network-based
photo-identification algorithm for individual humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) …

Strong maternal fidelity and natal philopatry shape genetic structure in North Pacific humpback whales

CS Baker, D Steel, J Calambokidis, E Falcone… - … ecology progress series, 2013 - int-res.com
We quantified the relative influence of maternal fidelity to feeding grounds and natal fidelity
to breeding grounds on the population structure of humpback whales Megaptera …

Humpback whale diets respond to variance in ocean climate and ecosystem conditions in the California Current

AH Fleming, CT Clark, J Calambokidis… - Global Change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Large, migratory predators are often cited as sentinel species for ecosystem processes and
climate‐related changes, but their utility as indicators is dependent upon an understanding …

Energetic connectivity of diverse elasmobranch populations–implications for ecological resilience

ON Shipley, P Matich, NE Hussey… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the factors shaping patterns of ecological resilience is critical for mitigating
the loss of global biodiversity. Throughout aquatic environments, highly mobile predators …

[HTML][HTML] Humpback whale populations share a core skin bacterial community: towards a health index for marine mammals?

A Apprill, J Robbins, AM Eren, AA Pack, J Reveillaud… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Microbes are now well regarded for their important role in mammalian health. The
microbiology of skin–a unique interface between the host and environment-is a major …

A review of post-whaling abundance, trends, changes in distribution and migration patterns, and supplementary feeding of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales

E Seyboth, JO Meynecke, J De Bie… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily targeted
during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000 individuals killed …

Comparisons of morphometrics and body condition between two breeding populations of Australian humpback whales

G Russell, F Christiansen, A Colefax… - Wildlife …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context: The east and west coasts of Australia form the breeding grounds for two of the
world's largest and fastest growing populations of humpback whales (Megaptera …

Migratory destinations and timing of humpback whales in the southeastern Caribbean differ from those off the Dominican Republic

PT Strevick, L Bouveret, N Gandilhon… - J. Cetacean Res …, 2018 - journal.iwc.int
Humpback whales wintering in the entire West Indies chain are widely treated as comprising
a single breeding population. However, most areas outside of Silver Bank and Samana Bay …