Abundance estimate of the Okhotsk Sea population of the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus  Linnaeus, 1758)

O. V. Shpak; I. G. Meschersky; D. M. Kuznetsova; A. N. Chichkina; A. Yu. Paramonov; V. V. Rozhnov

doi:10.1134/S0012496617060096

Abundance estimate of the Okhotsk Sea population of the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus, 1758)

Authors: Shpak O.V.¹, Meschersky I.G.¹, Kuznetsova D.M.¹, Chichkina A.N.², Paramonov A.Y.¹, Rozhnov V.V.¹
Affiliations:
1. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution
2. ООО NPO DNK-Tekhnologiya
Issue: Vol 477, No 1 (2017)
Pages: 236-238
Section: General Biology
URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/0012-4966/article/view/154170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496617060096
ID: 154170

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Abundance of 388 ± 108 whales for the Okhotsk Sea bowhead whale population based on individual genotyping was estimated using the capture–recapture method for the open population model. The data demonstrate that this endangered population shows no signs of recovery.