EVIDENCE FOR INCREASES IN ANTARCTIC BLUE WHALES BASED ON BAYESIAN MODELLING

By Trevor A. Branch, K. Matsuoka, T. Miyashita. 2004

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

• Past and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean (2007, background): “May instead of the earlier catch peak in June–July; catch per unit effort decreased to 3% (Best, 2003) instead of the 0.3% levels expected (Branch et al., 2004); a pygmy blue whale was caught there in September 1963 (Gambell, 1964); and four out of 12 pregnant blue whales caught at Durban were…”
• Worldwide decline in tonal frequencies of blue whale songs (2009, background): “Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) are an endangered species worldwide, having been commercially hunted until 1972 (Clapham et al. 1999; Branch et al. 2004).”
• Status of the world's baleen whales (2016, background): “In an assessment of Antarctic blue whales, the 1905 population (before the start of commercial whaling) was estimated at 239,000 (202,000–311,000) whales compared with a 1996 estimate of 1,700 (860–2,900) (Branch et al. 2004).”
• AD Model Builder: using automatic differentiation for statistical inference of highly parameterized complex nonlinear models (2012, unknown): “Many of these are fisheries-related such as modelling the dynamics of marine mammals [8,9,30,63,64] and seabirds.”
• Social and Behavioural Factors in Cetacean Responses to Overexploitation: Are Odontocetes Less “Resilient” Than Mysticetes? (2012, background): “For example, there is evidence for increases in blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) abundance [2] in the Antarctic and fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) abundance in central California [3].”
• Encouraging outlook for recovery of a once severely exploited marine megaherbivore (2008, background): “These low recovery or population growth rates are consistent with estimates for other long-lived and slow-growing marine or maritime species such as large coastal sharks (Smith et al ., 1998), manatees (Craig & Reynolds, 2004), humpback whales (Chaloupka et al ., 1999), blue whales ( Branch et al .,”
• Paradigm lost, or is top-down forcing no longer significant in the Antarctic marine ecosystem? (2007, background): “…penguin populations (both should have increased as both are first-order krill predators; Woehler et al. 2001, Lynnes et al. 2002); and, finally, while recovery in populations of the baleen whales is proceeding most remain severely depleted, even to this day (Best 1993, Branch et al. 2004).”
• Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems (2007, background): “Today, humpback, southern right, and Antarctic blue whales (Balaenoptrera musculus intermedia) remain at small fractions of their pre-exploitation levels (IWC 2001; Johnson and Butterworth 2002; Zerbini 2004; Branch et al. 2004), and it is likely that sperm whales (Whitehead 2002), fin whales, and p”