Ecology Summary - Balaenoptera brydei

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Ecology of Balaenoptera brydei

Main Ref.	Rice, D.W., 1998
Remarks	Inhabits tropical and warm temperate waters in major oceans between approximately 40°N and 40°S. They are generally restricted to waters warmer than 20°C. Feeds on copepods, euphausiids, and fishes (Ref. 79555). In Madeira, they can be found alone or in groups of two to five between June and November. Foraging includes both searching for prey and prey capture. Lunges are considered feeding dives while other deep dives were foraging dives without prey capture (Ref. 114954).

Main Ref.

Rice, D.W., 1998

Remarks

Inhabits tropical and warm temperate waters in major oceans between approximately 40°N and 40°S. They are generally restricted to waters warmer than 20°C. Feeds on copepods, euphausiids, and fishes (Ref. 79555). In Madeira, they can be found alone or in groups of two to five between June and November. Foraging includes both searching for prey and prey capture. Lunges are considered feeding dives while other deep dives were foraging dives without prey capture (Ref. 114954).

Aquatic zones / Water bodies

	Marine - Neritic	Marine - Oceanic	Brackishwater	Freshwater
Marine zones / Brackish and freshwater bodies	supra-littoral zone littoral zone sublittoral zone	epipelagic mesopelagic epipelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic	estuaries/lagoons/brackish seas mangroves marshes/swamps	rivers/streams lakes/ponds caves exclusively in caves

Highighted items on the list are where Balaenoptera brydei may be found.

Habitat

Substrate
Substrate Ref.
Special habitats
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Associations

Ref.	Rice, D.W., 1998
Associations
Associated with
Association remarks
Parasitism

feeding

Feeding type	mainly animals (troph. 2.8 and up)
Feeding type Ref.	Kanda, N., M. Goto, H. Kato, M.V. McPhee and L.A. Pastene, 2007
Feeding habit	hunting macrofauna (predator)
Feeding habit Ref.	Kanda, N., M. Goto, H. Kato, M.V. McPhee and L.A. Pastene, 2007

Trophic Level(s)

Estimation method	original sample		unfished population		Remark
Estimation method	Troph	s.e.	Troph	s.e.	Remark
From diet composition	4.16	0.72			Troph of juv./adults.
From individual food items	4.03	0.67			Trophic level estimated from a number of food items using a randomized resampling routine.
Ref.	Tamura, T., K. Konishi, T. Isoda, R. Okamoto and T. Bando, 2009

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