Influence of thermal fronts on habitat selection by four rorqual whale species in the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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The trophodynamics of marine top predators: Current knowledge, recent advances and challenges (2015, background): “…with topographic or bathymetric features (Croll et al., 2005; Dower and Brodeur, 2004; Johnson et al., 2004; Morato et al., 2010), but also mixing of ocean water masses and shear from ocean currents (Doniol-Valcroze et al., 2007; Kappes et al., 2010; Polovina et al., 2001), or both (Davoren, 2013).”
Blue whale habitat selection and within-season distribution in a regional upwelling system off southern Australia (2011, background): “Doniol-Valcroze et al. (2007) pointed out that if a surface gradient is measured at the exact position of a sighting it may appear insignificant, whereas there may be a lag between a biologically significant surface feature e.g. a front, and a sighting.”
Potential feeding habitat of fin whales in the western Mediterranean Sea: an environmental niche model (2012, background): “Several studies have shown that feeding fin whales and other rorqual whales are often located in areas of thermal (Nottestad et al. 2002, Doniol-Valcroze et al. 2007) and chl a fronts (Cotté et al. 2009), where many zooplankton species are abundant (Le Fèvre 1986).”