Project information
Project aim
This work addresses Australian Government marine mammal conservation, management and policy needs with an emphasis on priorities from the International Whaling Commission and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. The science outcomes will directly address knowledge gaps in our understanding of population structure, abundance, trend and distribution of the great whales and other predators, their ecological linkages and the role these animals play in the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Such science forms a powerful unpinning of Australia's important and high profile policy and management objectives nationally and in international conventions.
Related publications
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Modelling Migratory Pinch Points and Connectivity of Pygmy Blue Whale Using Circuit Theory: A Case Study of Savu Sea, Indonesia ILMU KELAUTAN: Indonesian Journal of Marine Sciences, 2025
(Ref: 17327)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Blue whale and their subspecies is an endangered whale species that needs to be conserved by protecting their important habitat and migration corridor. Research about designing and modelling blue whale habitat for marine protected area has been done many times. However…
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Predicting suitable habitats for foraging and migration in Eastern Indian Ocean pygmy blue whales from satellite tracking data. Movement Ecology, 2024
(Ref: 17085)
Authors:Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Background: Accurate predictions of animal occurrence in time and space are crucial for informing and implementing science-based management strategies for threatened species. Methods: We compiled known, available satellite tracking data for pygmy blue whales in the Eastern Indian Ocean (n?=?38)…
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Australia's east coast humpback whales: Satellite tag-derived movements on breeding grounds, feeding grounds and along the northern and southern migration Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023
(Ref: 17030)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
Background … Satellite tags were deployed on 50 east Australian humpback whales (breeding stock E1) between 2008 and 2010 on their southward migration, northward migration and feeding grounds in order to identify and describe migratory pathways, feeding grounds and possible calving areas.
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Longer migration not necessarily the costliest strategy for migrating humpback whales Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 2020
(Ref: 16651)
Category 1: Peer-reviewed literature
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Exploratory analysis of potential encounter rates for an acoustic tracking survey method for blue whales. International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee meeting (SC64), Panama City, Republic of Panama, June 2012, 2012
(Ref: 15055)
Category 2: International meeting papers