• DOI:10.1007/s00300-011-1036-8
Corpus ID: 2290952

Unusual narwhal sea ice entrapments and delayed autumn freeze-up trends

@article{Laidre2011UnusualNS,
  title={Unusual narwhal sea ice entrapments and delayed autumn freeze-up trends},
  author={K. Laidre and M. Heide-J{\o}rgensen and H. Stern and P. Richard},
  journal={Polar Biology},
  year={2011},
  volume={35},
  pages={149-154}
}

K. Laidre, M. Heide-Jørgensen, +1 author P. Richard

Published 2011

Biology

Polar Biology

Sea ice entrapments of narwhals (Monodon monoceros) occur when rapid changes in weather and wind conditions create a formation of fast ice in bays or passages used by whales. Between 2008 and 2010, four entrapments of narwhals were reported in Canada and Greenland. In each case, large groups (40–600 individuals) succumbed in the sea ice at three separate summering localities, two of these where entrapments had never before been reported. We examined long-term trends in autumn freeze-up timing… CONTINUE READING

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