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Influence of seismic surveys on western gray whales off Sakhalin Island, Russia in 2001

2002
Open Access Report

Publications, Agencies and Staff of the U.S. Department of Commerce

Weller, D. W., Ivashchenko, Y. V., Tsidulko, G. A., Burdin, A. M. and Brownell Jr., R. L.

Western gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) aggregate off the northeastern coast of Sakhalin Island, Russia during summer-autumn to feed on benthic and near-benthic prey. During summer 2001,...
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Keywords: Conservation, Disturbance, Feeding, Okhotsk Sea, Russia, Seismic survey, Western gray whale

East or west: the energetic cost of being a gray whale and the consequence of losing energy to disturbance

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Endangered Species Research

Villegas-Amtmann, S., L. K. Schwarz, G. Gailey, O. Sychenko, and D. P. Costa

Western gray whales (WGW) Eschrichtius robustus are considered one of the world’s most endangered baleen whale populations. Development of oil and gas fields in northeastern Sakhalin,...
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Keywords: Bioenergetics, Disturbance costs, Energy loss, Eschrichtius robustus, Foraging costs, Metabolic rate, Migration costs, Reproductive costs, Western gray whale