Spatial and seasonal distribution of American whaling and whales in the age of sail.
Spatial and seasonal distribution of American whaling and whales in the age of sail.
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0034905
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Lund JN
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文献类型：
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作者：
Smith TD;Reeves RR;Josephson EA;Lund JN
从18世纪到20世纪初，美国捕鲸人从美国东海岸和加州的港口出发，在世界各地的海洋中寻找鲸鱼。从最初关注抹香鲸（Physeter macrocephalus）和露脊鲸（Eubalaena spp.）开始，目标鲸鱼的范围扩大到包括弓头鲸（Balaena mysticetus）、座头鲸（Megaptera novaeangliae）和灰鲸（Gracrichtius robustus）。大量的美国捕鲸记录以捕鲸航行日志的每日条目的形式包含了大量关于捕鲸人何时何地发现鲸鱼的信息。我们在世界地图上绘制了每天观察到几种鲸鱼的位置，包括捕获的鲸鱼和看到但未捕获的鲸鱼，以说明美国捕鲸活动和鲸鱼的空间和时间分布。地图上显示的模式提供了各种推论的基础，这些推论涉及在这一全球捕鲸事件之前和期间目标鲸鱼的历史分布。
American whalemen sailed out of ports on the east coast of the United States and in California from the 18th to early 20th centuries, searching for whales throughout the world’s oceans. From an initial focus on sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) and right whales (Eubalaena spp.), the array of targeted whales expanded to include bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), and gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus). Extensive records of American whaling in the form of daily entries in whaling voyage logbooks contain a great deal of information about where and when the whalemen found whales. We plotted daily locations where the several species of whales were observed, both those caught and those sighted but not caught, on world maps to illustrate the spatial and temporal distribution of both American whaling activity and the whales. The patterns shown on the maps provide the basis for various inferences concerning the historical distribution of the target whales prior to and during this episode of global whaling.
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Reeves, RR;Josephson, E;Smith, TD
通讯作者：
Smith, TD
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Rasmussen, Kristin;Palacios, Daniel M.;Stone, Gregory S.
通讯作者：
Stone, Gregory S.
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Mikhalev, YA
通讯作者：
Mikhalev, YA