Blue whale habitat and prey in the California Channel Islands

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作者
Fiedler, PC [1 ]
Reilly, SB
Hewitt, RP
Demer, D
Philbrick, VA
Smith, S
Armstrong, W
Croll, DA
Tershy, BR
Mate, BR
机构
[1] NOAA, Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, SW Fisheries Sci Ctr, La Jolla, CA 92038 USA
[2] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Marine Sci, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[3] Oregon State Univ, Hatfield Marine Sci Ctr, Newport, OR 97365 USA
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10.1016/S0967-0645(98)80017-9
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P7 [海洋学];
学科分类号
0707 ;
摘要
Whale Habitat and Prey Studies were conducted off southern California during August 1995 (WHAPS95) and July 1996 (WHAPS96) to (1) study the distribution and activities of blue whales and other large whales, (2) survey the distribution of prey organisms (krill), and (3) measure physical and biological habitat variables that influence the distribution of whales and prey. A total of 1307 cetacean sightings included 460 blue whale, 78 fin whale and 101 humpback whale sightings. Most blue whales were found in cold, well-mixed and productive water that had upwelled along the coast north of Point Conception and then advected south. They were aggregated in this water near San Miguel and Santa Rosa Islands, where they fed on dense, subsurface layers of euphausiids both on the shelf and extending off the shelf edge. Two species of euphausiids were consumed by blue whales, Thysanoessa spinifera and Euphausia pacifica, with evidence of preference for the former, a larger and more coastal species. These krill patches on the Channel Island feeding grounds are a resource exploited during summer-fall by the world's largest stock of blue whales. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1781 / 1801
页数:21
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