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dc.contributor.authorCarroll, Emma Louise
dc.contributor.authorFewster, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorChilderhouse, Simon
dc.contributor.authorPatenaude, Nathalie
dc.contributor.authorBoren, Laura
dc.contributor.authorBaker, C. Scott
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-12T14:40:02Z
dc.date.available2016-01-12T14:40:02Z
dc.date.issued2016-01-11
dc.identifier.citationCarroll , E L , Fewster , R , Childerhouse , S , Patenaude , N , Boren , L & Baker , C S 2016 , ' First direct evidence for natal wintering ground fidelity and estimate of juvenile survival in the New Zealand Southern right whale Eubalaena australis ' , PLoS One , vol. 11 , no. 1 , e0146590 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146590en
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 240256595
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 4d6733c8-042d-4508-ab43-88b7dfd42b00
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84954535076
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000367888100107
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/8006
dc.descriptionE. Carroll was supported by a Tertiary Education Commission Top Achiever Scholarship, an OMV New Zealand Ltd Scholarship and the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland.en
dc.description.abstractJuvenile survival and recruitment can be more sensitive to environmental, ecological and anthropogenic factors than adult survival, influencing population-level processes like recruitment and growth rate in long-lived, iteroparous species such as southern right whales. Conventionally, Southern right whales are individually identified using callosity patterns, which do not stabilise until 6–12 months, by which time the whale has left its natal wintering grounds. Here we use DNA profiling of skin biopsy samples to identify individual Southern right whales from year of birth and document their return to the species’ primary wintering ground in New Zealand waters, the Subantarctic Auckland Islands. We find evidence of natal fidelity to the New Zealand wintering ground by the recapture of 15 of 57 whales, first sampled in year of birth and available for subsequent recapture, during winter surveys to the Auckland Islands in 1995–1998 and 2006–2009. Four individuals were recaptured at the ages of 9 to 11, including two females first sampled as calves in 1998 and subsequently resampled as cows with calves in 2007. Using these capture-recapture records of known-age individuals, we estimate changes in survival with age using Cormack-Jolly-Sebermodels. Survival is modelled using discrete age classes and as a continuous function of age. Using a bootstrap method to account for uncertainty in model selection and fitting, we provide the first direct estimate of juvenile survival for this population. Our analyses indicate a high annual apparent survival for juveniles at between 0.87 (standard error (SE) 0.17, to age 1) and 0.95 (SE 0.05: ages 2–8). Individual identification by DNA profiling is an effective method for long-term demographic and genetic monitoring, particularly in animals that change identifiable features as they develop or experience tag loss over time.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofPLoS Oneen
dc.rights© 2016 Carroll et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectGC Oceanographyen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subject.lccGCen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleFirst direct evidence for natal wintering ground fidelity and estimate of juvenile survival in the New Zealand Southern right whale Eubalaena australisen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Uniten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146590
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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