Long-Distance Movement of a Sei Whale in the North Atlantic, 2005

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Description

Original provider: Erik Olsen, Institute of Marine Research Dataset credits: Erik Olsen and Leif Nøttestad, Institute of Marine Research Abstract: Long-distance migration for most species of baleen whales is poorly understood because of the practical difficulties and substantial expense involved in gathering relevant data. Presently, satellite tracking is the only method that delivers the necessary detail and quantitative data on movement patterns on far-ranging marine mammals. In this study, ARGOS satellite tags were deployed on North Atlantic sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) at the Azores Islands. Data from one whale showed a cumulative 4,102 km movement from tagging at Faial Island in the Azores on 12 April 2005 via the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone (CGFZ) to the Labrador Sea where transmissions stopped on 7 June 2005. For a portion of the distance from CGFZ to the Labrador Sea, the whale moved in the prevailing direction of the surface current pattern. Erratic movement in five areas along the movement track indicates feeding behavior, particularly in the CGFZ. The results show the largescale movement potential of North Atlantic sei whales from wintering grounds to highly productive potential feeding areas in the Labrador Sea. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to track sei whales from winter grounds off the Azores to summer feeding grounds in the North Atlantic Supplemental information: All location classes are visualized. There is a gap from location of tagging to first transmission.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Olsen, E. 2013. Long-Distance Movement of a Sei Whale in the North Atlantic, 2005. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/888) on yyyy-mm-dd.

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 02647337-8eef-4673-b42b-b655b2140b77. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence,Radio transmitters,Animal movements,Satellite transmitters; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page	http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/888 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata	http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/888/xml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Erik Olsen

Owner ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Primary contact

Institute of Marine Research

eriko@imr.no

OBIS-SEAMAP

Metadata Provider ●
Distributor

Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

A328 LSRC building

27708 Durham

NC

US

seamap-contact@duke.edu

http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Geographic Coverage

North Atlantic,Azores,Labrador,Mid-atlantic ridge

Bounding Coordinates	South West [38.57, -55.506], North East [56.083, -29.136]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species	Balaenoptera borealis (Sei Whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	2005-04-13 / 2005-06-07

Project Data

No Description available

Title	Long-Distance Movement of a Sei Whale in the North Atlantic, 2005
Funding	NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Erik Olsen

Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent	NA

Method step description:

NA

Collection Data

Collection Name	zd_888
Collection Identifier	zd_888
Parent Collection Identifier	OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose	The purpose of this study was to track sei whales from winter grounds off the Azores to summer feeding grounds in the North Atlantic
Alternative Identifiers	http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_888