Multi-scale habitat preference analyses for Azorean blue whales.

Blue whales are sighted every year around the Azores islands, which apparently provide an important seasonal foraging area. In this paper we aim to characterize habitat preferences and analyze the temporal distribution of blue whales around São Miguel Island. To do so, we applied Generalized Additiv...

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Main Authors: Laura González García, Graham J Pierce, Emmanuelle Autret, Jesús M Torres-Palenzuela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6161847?pdf=render