Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

Boersma) Amazingly enough, a huge amount of this nutrient distribution comes from whale urine, which disperses nitrogen and other elements through the ocean when nature inevitably calls. "We call it ...

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“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean.” This research also highlights the potential ...

This redistribution of nutrients is known as the “great whale conveyor belt,” which is illustrated by the thousands ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean. We ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display “traditional migratory patterns,” moving from colder waters in the summer to ...