Realm: Marine
Climate: Polar/Temperate
Biome: Polar ecoregions
Central latitude: -62.076411
Central longitude: 79.717188
Duration: 42 years, from 1932 to 1980

7122 records

6 distinct species

Across the time series Balaenoptera physalus is the most frequently occurring species

Methods

Season whale catch records for austral summers from 1931/32 to 1979/80. Data have been aggregated into one degree cells centered on the reported position. The dataset covers five whale species - Blue. Fin. Sei. Minke and Humpback. These data have been exposed as an OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System) resource via DiGIR (Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR)). Unit of abundance = IndCountInt, Unit of biomass = NA

Citation(s)

"Whale Catches in Southern Ocean". OBIS - Australian Antarctic Data Centre. Available at: http://www.iobis.org, accessed 2013.