Past and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean

By Trevor A. Branch, Kathleen M. Stafford, Daniel M. Palacios, C. Allison, J. Bannister, C. Burton, E. Cabrera, Carole A. Carlson, B. G. Vernazzani, P. Gill and 31 more. 2007

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Blue whale habitat selection and within-season distribution in a regional upwelling system off southern Australia (2011, background): “The area sampled was a rectangle bounded to the north-west by 37°30’S, 139°45’E, and to the south-east by 38°30’S, 141°15’E, located to cover a significant portion of the Bonney Upwelling surface plume and some adjacent offshore waters (Fig.”
Status of the world's baleen whales (2016, background): “Branch et al. (2007b) proposed, and the Committee on Taxonomy (2015) accepted, that the blue whales off Chile and probably Peru constitute an unnamed subspecies.”
Determining spatial and temporal scales for management: lessons from whaling (2008, background): “Although overall they may be slowly increasing in numbers (Branch et al. 2007), their return to specific former habitats (like South Georgia or the southwestern coast of Africa) may not be occurring, decades after exploitation ceased.”