A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales

LJ Pallin, NM Kellar, D Steel… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The krill surplus hypothesis of unlimited prey resources available for Antarctic predators due
to commercial whaling in the 20th century has remained largely untested since the 1970s …

A review of post-whaling abundance, trends, changes in distribution and migration patterns, and supplementary feeding of Southern Hemisphere humpback whales

E Seyboth, JO Meynecke, J De Bie… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily targeted
during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000 individuals killed …

Circumpolar projections of Antarctic krill growth potential

D Veytia, S Corney, KM Meiners, S Kawaguchi… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Antarctic krill is a key species of important Southern Ocean food webs, yet how changes in
ocean temperature and primary production may impact their habitat quality remains poorly …

Humpback whale migrations to Antarctic summer foraging grounds through the southwest Pacific Ocean

V Andrews-Goff, S Bestley, NJ Gales, SM Laverick… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) populations typically undertake seasonal
migrations, spending winters in low latitude breeding grounds and summers foraging in high …

[HTML][HTML] Global connectivity of Southern Ocean ecosystems

EJ Murphy, NM Johnston, EE Hofmann… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Southern Ocean ecosystems are globally important. Processes in the Antarctic atmosphere,
cryosphere, and the Southern Ocean directly influence global atmospheric and oceanic …

High pregnancy rates in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) around the Western Antarctic Peninsula, evidence of a rapidly growing population

LJ Pallin, CS Baker, D Steel… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Antarctic humpback whales are recovering from near extirpation from commercial whaling.
To understand the dynamics of this recovery and establish a baseline to monitor impacts of a …

[HTML][HTML] A DNA methylation age predictor for zebrafish

B Mayne, D Korbie, L Kenchington, B Ezzy… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Changes in DNA methylation at specific CpG sites have been used to build
predictive models to estimate animal age, predominantly in mammals. Little testing for this …

Epigenetic measurement of key vertebrate population biology parameters

MJ Heydenrych, BJ Saunders, M Bunce… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The age, sex, and sexual maturity of individual animals are key parameters in assessing
wild populations and informing conservation management strategies. These parameters …

Modelling the spatial distribution of cetaceans in New Zealand waters

F Stephenson, K Goetz, BR Sharp… - Diversity and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Cetaceans are inherently difficult to study due to their elusive, pelagic and often highly
migratory nature. New Zealand waters are home to 50% of the world's cetacean species, but …

First evidence of bubble‐net feeding and the formation of 'super‐groups' by the east Australian population of humpback whales during their southward migration

V Pirotta, K Owen, D Donnelly… - Aquatic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The recovery of overexploited populations is likely to reveal behaviours that may have been
present prior to harvest but are only now reappearing as the population size increases. The …