Research and Reports on Beluga Whales in Alaska
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Beluga Whale Status
Eastern Chukchi Sea Belugas
Bristol Bay Belugas
- Satellite Tagging: 2003, 2002
- Kvichak Beluga Tagging Study: Are beluga whales a factor in the collapse of Kvichak's red salmon run? (2006, Bristol Bay Native Association external
link)
- Alaska Beluga Whale Committee Biopsies - A Genetic Mark-Recapture Pilot Project: 2005, 2004
Cook Inlet Belugas
- Status Reviews
- Status Review and Extinction Assessment of Cook Inlet Belugas, R.C. Hobbs, et al., November 2006
- Species of Concern, 2006
- Beluga Whales - Status, Distribution, Harvest History, Historic and Current Use, Habitat Associations, Traditional Knowledge and Abundance, Marine Fisheries Review, Vol 62, No. 3, 2000
- Synthesis of Available Information on the Cook Inlet Stock of Beluga Whales, Sue Moore, et al., December 1999
- Status Report on CI Belugas, 1992
- 2006 World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, Cook Inlet population, IUCN website (external link)
- Monitoring Recovery Status and Age Structure of Cook Inlet, Alaska Belugas by Skin Color Determination, L. K. Litzky, 2001
- Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet - A Review, K. Shelden, 1994
- Satellite Tagging in Cook Inlet, 1999-2003
- Aerial Surveys
- Habitat
- Habitat Use in a Marine Ecosystem: Beluga Whales in Cook Inlet, Marine Ecology, K. T. Goetz, et al., January 2007
- Baroclinic tidal flows and inundation processes in Cook Inlet,Alaska: numerical modeling and satellite observations, Ocean Dynamics, Lie-Yauw Oey, Tal Ezer, Chuanmin Hu, Frank E. Muller-Karger
- International Polar Year Project - Pan-Arctic Tracking of Beluga Whales: an international science initiative from March 2007 to March 2009 to develop a circumpolar view of the movements and habitats of beluga whales throughout arctic and sub arctic waters
- Movements and Area Use of Belugas, Delphinapterus leucas,in a Subarctic Alaskan Estuary, Arctic, VOL. 58, N0. 4, P. 331–340, R.C. Hobbs, K.L. Laidre, D.J. Vos, B.A. Mahoney and M. Eagleton,
December 2005
- Areas Used by CI Belugas: June, July and
August 1993-1999 (Figure)
- Life History
- Unusual Mortality in the 2003 Depleted Cook Inlet Beluga Population, Northwestern Naturalist, 2005
- Developing a calving rate index for beluga in Cook Inlet, Alaska using aerial videography and photography,
Christy Sims, et al., 2003
- Killer Whale Predation on Belugas in Cook Inlet, Alaska: Implications for a Depleted Population, Marine Mammal Science, K. Shelden, et al., July 2003
- Cook Inlet Beluga Age and Growth, Dan Vos, 2003
- Anthropogenic Impacts
- Yakutat and Other Opportunistic Sightings
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