| Literature DB >> 17148385 |
Russell Leaper1, Justin Cooke, Phil Trathan, Keith Reid, Victoria Rowntree, Roger Payne.
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.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 17148385 PMCID: PMC1618902 DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0431
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biol Lett ISSN: 1744-9561 Impact factor: 3.703