作者
Joanna Day, David Power, Rosemary Gales, John Bannister, Maxine P Piggott, Kerstin Bilgmann, Robert Harcourt, Luciano B Beheregaray, Luciana M Möller
发表日期
2021/1/11
期刊
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
简介
- Understanding the factors driving population structure in marine mammals is needed to evaluate the impacts of previous exploitation, current anthropogenic threats, conservation status, and success of population recovery efforts.
- Sperm whales are characterized by a worldwide distribution, low genetic diversity, complex patterns of social and genetic structure that differ significantly within and between ocean basins, and a long history of being commercially whaled. In Australia, sperm whales from the (International Whaling Commission assigned) southern hemisphere ‘Division 5’ stock were very heavily exploited by whaling.
- The present study assessed the potential effects of whaling on the genetic diversity of sperm whales in Australia and the population genetic structure of these whales within a global context. A combination of historical and contemporary sperm whale samples (n = 157) were analysed across six …
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