Global climate drives southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) population dynamics

Leaper, Russell; Cooke, Justin; Trathan, Phil; Reid, Keith; Rowntree, Victoria; Payne, Roger

Leaper, Russell; Cooke, Justin; Trathan, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6673-9930; Reid, Keith; Rowntree, Victoria; Payne, Roger. 2006 Global climate drives southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) population dynamics. Biology Letters, 2 (2). 289-292. 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0431

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Abstract

Sea surface temperature (SST) time-series from the southwest Atlantic and the El Niño 4 region in the western Pacific were compared to an index of annual calving success of the southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) breeding in Argentina. There was a strong relationship between right whale calving output and SST anomalies at South Georgia in the autumn of the previous year and also with mean El Niño 4 SST anomalies delayed by 6 years. These results extend similar observations from other krill predators and show clear linkages between global climate signals and the biological processes affecting whale population dynamics.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0431

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10.1098/rsbl.2005.0431

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BAS Programmes > Global Science in the Antarctic Context (2005-2009) > DISCOVERY 2010 - Integrating Southern Ocean Ecosystems into the Earth System

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