Carole Carlson
College of the Atlantic
16 Papers
96 Citations
Carole Carlson is an academic researcher from College of the Atlantic. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Humpback whale. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 13 publications. Previous affiliations of Carole Carlson include University of Southern Maine.
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Past and present distribution, densities and movements of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Southern Hemisphere and northern Indian Ocean
Trevor A. Branch,Kathleen M. Stafford,Daniel M. Palacios,C. Allison,John Bannister,C. L. K. Burton,Elsa Cabrera,Carole Carlson,B. Galletti Vernazzani,Peter C. Gill,Rodrigo Hucke-Gaete,K.C.S. Jenner,Micheline-Nicole M. Jenner,Koji Matsuoka,Y A Mikhalev,Tomio Miyashita,Margaret G. Morrice,S. Nishiwaki,V. J. Sturrock,D. D. Tormosov,R. C. Anderson,Alan N. Baker,Peter B. Best,Philippe Borsa,Robert L. Brownell,Simon Childerhouse,K. P. Findlay,Tim Gerrodette,A. D. Ilangakoon,M. Joergensen,B. Kahn,Donald K. Ljungblad,B. Maughan,Robert D. McCauley,S. Mckay,Tom Norris,Shannon Rankin,Flore Samaran,Deborah Thiele,K. Van Waerebeek,R. M. Warneke +40 more
TL;DR: Blue whales avoid the oligotrophic central gyres of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, but are more common where phytoplankton densities are high, and where there are dynamic oceanographic processes like upwelling and frontal meandering.
A quarter of a world away: female humpback whale moves 10,000 km between breeding areas.
Peter T. Stevick,Mariana C. Neves,Freddy Johansen,Marcia H. Engel,Judith Allen,Milton C. C. Marcondes,Carole Carlson +6 more
TL;DR: This report reports on a female humpback whale first identified by natural markings off Brazil that subsequently was photographed off Madagascar, whose minimum travel distance is greater than 9800 km, more than twice the species' typical seasonal migratory distance and the longest documented movement by a mammal.
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Behavior and social structure of the sperm whales of Dominica, West Indies
Shane Gero,Marina Milligan,Caroline Rinaldi,Pernell Francis,Jonathan Gordon,Carole Carlson,Andrea Steffen,Peter L. Tyack,Peter Evans,Hal Whitehead +9 more
TL;DR: The authors described the behavior and social structure of sperm whales identified off Dominica during an eight year study (2005-2012; 92% of photographic identifications) with supplementary data collected from seven other organizations dating as far back as 1981.
Population estimate and inter-island movement of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, in the Eastern Caribbean Sea
TL;DR: In this paper , the population size of sperm whales in the Eastern Caribbean is estimated and the inter-island movements of individuals are quantified using a database of 1,394 photographic identifications taken between 1984 and 2006.
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