Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Publication Date
8-2015
Journal
Diversity and Distributions
Volume
21
Issue
8
First Page
925
Last Page
937
Abstract
Aim: To obtain a plausible hypothesis for the historical distribution of North Atlantic right whales (NARWs) (Eubalaena glacialis) in their summer feeding grounds. Previously widespread in the North Atlantic, after centuries of hunt- ing, these whales survive as a small population off eastern North America. Because their exploitation began before formal records started, information about their historical distribution is fragmentary.
DOI
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12314
Keywords
Boosted regression trees; Eubalaena; historical distribution; right whale; species distribution models; whaling
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Monserrat, Sophie; Pennino, Maria G.; Smith, Tim D.; Reeves, Randall R.; Meynard, Christine N.; Kaplan, David M.; and Rodrigues, Ana S.L., Historical summer distribution of the endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis): a hypothesis based on environmental preferences of a congeneric species (2015). Diversity and Distributions, 21(8), 925-937.
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12314
