ArticleScientific reports2020
Autumn movements of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) from Svalbard, Norway, revealed by satellite tracking.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed.
- Dynamic Migratory Strategies and Foraging Habitats of Southern Right Whales Revealed by Satellite Telemetry.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Detecting silent whales using seabed fiber-optic cables.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Year-round acoustic presence of fin whales southwest of Svalbard suggests mixed-use habitat for feeding and breeding.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Fin whale song recordings by onshore seismometers open new horizons for cetacean coastal monitoring.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Migration to breeding areas by male sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus from the Northeast Atlantic Arctic.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Aseasonal Migration of a Northern Bottlenose Whale Provides Support for the Skin Molt Migration Hypothesis.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Migratory movements of fin whales from the Gulf of St. Lawrence challenge our understanding of the Northwest Atlantic stock structure.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Annual phenology and migration routes to breeding grounds in western-central North Pacific sei whales.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Order within chaos: potential migratory strategies and individual associations in fin whales feeding off Iceland.Movement ecology · 2024Article
- Fin whale song evolution in the North Atlantic.eLife · 2024Article
- A multi-year analysis of acoustic occurrence and habitat use of blue and fin whales in eastern and central Fram Strait.PloS one · 2024Article
- Identification of Mid-Polar and Polar AhR Agonists in Cetaceans from Korean Coastal Waters: Application of Effect-Directed Analysis with Full-Scan Screening.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
- Do beluga whales truly migrate? Testing a key trait of the classical migration syndrome.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Divergent migration routes reveal contrasting energy-minimization strategies to deal with differing resource predictability.Movement ecology · 2023Article
- Using quantile regression and relative entropy to assess the period of anomalous behavior of marine mammals following tagging.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Occurrence and patterns of fin whale songs reveal alternative migration strategies in Svalbard Islands, Norway.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Genomic Impact of Whaling in North Atlantic Fin Whales.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Insight into animal movements is essential for understanding habitat use by individuals as well as population processes and species life-history strategies. In this study, we instrumented 25 fin whales with ARGOS satellite-transmitters in Svalbard, Norway, to study their movement patterns and behaviour (Area Restricted Search (ARS), transiting or unknown) during boreal autumn/early winter. Ten of the whales stayed in the tagging area (most northerly location: 81.68°N) for their entire tracking periods (max 45 days). The other 15 whales moved in a south-westerly direction; the longest track ended off the coast of northern Africa (> 5000 km from the tagging location) after 96 days. The whales engaged in ARS behaviour intermittently throughout their southward migrations. During transit phases the whales moved quickly; one individual maintained an average horizontal speed of 9.3 km/h (travelling 223 km per day) for a period of a week. This study documents that: (1) some fin whales might remain at high latitudes during winter; (2) the whales that do migrate probably feed along the way; (3) they can maintain high transiting speed for long periods and; (4) one breeding area for this species is likely located in deep, warm water some 100 km west of Morocco.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.