Genetic differentiation and population connectivity of humpback whales migrating through Aotearoa New Zealand waters

Debbie J. Steel; Emma L. Carroll; C. Scott Baker; Susana Caballero; Simon Childerhouse; Chloe Corne; Claire Garrigue; Nadine Gibbs; Richard Kinsey; Ngāti Kuri; Mike Ogle; Carlos Olavarría; Daniel Palacios; M. Michael Poole; Kristin Rasmussen; Leena Riekkola; Jooke Robbins; Rochelle Constantine

doi:10.1071/PC25026

Genetic differentiation and population connectivity of humpback whales migrating through Aotearoa New Zealand waters

Debbie J. Steel
, Emma L. Carroll
, C. Scott Baker
, Susana Caballero
, Simon Childerhouse
, Chloe Corne
, Claire Garrigue
, Nadine Gibbs
, Richard Kinsey
, Ngāti Kuri
, Mike Ogle
, Carlos Olavarría
, Daniel Palacios
, M. Michael Poole
, Kristin Rasmussen
, Leena Riekkola
, Jooke Robbins
, Rochelle Constantine

Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences

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Original language	English
Article number	PC25026
Number of pages	17
Journal	Pacific Conservation Biology
Volume	31
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1071/PC25026
State	Published - Sep 2 2025

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© 2025 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Ecology
Nature and Landscape Conservation

Keywords

connectivity
genetics
humpback whale
migration
mixed stock assignment
mtDNA
New Zealand
Pacific Ocean

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Steel, D. J., Carroll, E. L., Baker, C. S., Caballero, S., Childerhouse, S., Corne, C., Garrigue, C., Gibbs, N., Kinsey, R., Kuri, N., Ogle, M., Olavarría, C., Palacios, D., Poole, M. M., Rasmussen, K., Riekkola, L., Robbins, J., & Constantine, R. (2025). Genetic differentiation and population connectivity of humpback whales migrating through Aotearoa New Zealand waters. Pacific Conservation Biology, 31(5), Article PC25026. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC25026

Steel, DJ, Carroll, EL, Baker, CS, Caballero, S, Childerhouse, S, Corne, C, Garrigue, C, Gibbs, N, Kinsey, R, Kuri, N, Ogle, M, Olavarría, C, Palacios, D, Poole, MM, Rasmussen, K, Riekkola, L, Robbins, J & Constantine, R 2025, 'Genetic differentiation and population connectivity of humpback whales migrating through Aotearoa New Zealand waters', Pacific Conservation Biology, vol. 31, no. 5, PC25026. https://doi.org/10.1071/PC25026

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