Sentences with phrase «impact whale populations»
Now the trio has created a model to examine in more detail how a cap - and - trade market might impact whale populations and how the costs and benefits would change for people who want to hunt or conserve them.
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«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»
Without ship strikes as a big factor holding the population back — and no other readily apparent human - caused reason (although noise, chemical pollution and interactions with fisheries may impact them)-- it is even more likely that the population is growing more slowly because whale numbers are reaching the habitat limit, something called the carrying capacity.
The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.
However, what is critical is the extent of predation and what impacts are being visited on the Gray Whale population.
O Research Question = How has whaling impacted the blue whale population?
If the Kinder Morgan pipeline were to go ahead without addressing impacts to marine species, including increased tanker noise, the Southern Resident killer whale's population's survival and recovery would be jeopardized and their critical habitat would be threatened.