Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman RL. The marine birds of Alijos Rocks, Mexico. Western Birds. 1985 ;16:81-92.

Au DWK, Pitman RL. Seabird Interactions with Dolphins and Tuna in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. The Condor. 1986 ;88(3):304 - 317.

Pitman RL, Aguayo-L A, Urban-R J. Observations of an unidentified beaked whale (Mesoplodon sp.) in the eastern tropical Pacific. Marine Mammal Science. 1987 ;3:345-352.

Au DWK, Pitman RL. Seabird relationships with tropical tunas and dolphins. In: Seabirds and other marine vertebrates. Competition, predation and other interactions. Seabirds and other marine vertebrates. Competition, predation and other interactions. New York: Columbia University Press; 1988. pp. 174-212.

Fraser WR, Pitman RL, Ainley DG. Seabird and fur seal responses to vertically migrating winter krill swarms in Antarctica. Polar Biology. 1989 ;10(1).

Pitman RL, Ballance LT. Daytime Feeding by Leach's Storm-Petrel on a Midwater Fish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific. The Condor. 1990 ;92(2):524.

Pitman RL, Ballance LT. Parkinson's Petrel Distribution and Foraging Ecology in the Eastern Pacific: Aspects of an Exclusive Feeding Relationship with Dolphins. The Condor. 1992 ;94(4):825 - 835.

Pitman RL. Seabird associations with marine turtles in the eastern Pacific. Colonial Waterbirds. 1993 ;16(2):194-201.

Everett WT, Pitman RL. Status and conservation of shearwaters of the North Pacific. In: The status, ecology, and conservation of marine birds of the North Pacific. The status, ecology, and conservation of marine birds of the North Pacific. Ottawa: Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada; 1993. pp. 93-100.

Frazier JG, Fierstine HL, Beavers SC, Achaval F, Suganuma H, Pitman RL, Yamaguchi Y, Prigioni CM. Impalement of marine turtles (Reptilia, Chelonia: Cheloniidae and Dermochelyidae) by billfishes (Osteichthyes, Perciformes: Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 1994 ;39:85-96.

Pitman RL, Spear LB, Force MP. The marine birds of Malpelo Island, Colombia. Colonial Waterbirds. 1995 ;18:113-119.

Everett WT, Pitman RL. Avian specimens from Rocas Alijos. In: Rocas Alijos. Scientific results from the Cordell expeditions. Rocas Alijos. Scientific results from the Cordell expeditions. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1996. pp. 359-362.

Pitman RL. Marine mammals of Rocas Alijos. In: Rocas Alijos. Scientific results from the Cordell expeditions. Rocas Alijos. Scientific results from the Cordell expeditions. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers; 1996. pp. 363-364.

Jefferson TA, Pitman RL, Leatherwood S, Dolar MLL. Developmental and sexual variation in the external appearance of Fraser's dolphins (Lagenodelphis hosei). Aquatic Mammals. 1997 ;23:145-153.

Ballance LT, Pitman RL, Reilly SB. Seabird Community Structure Along a Productivity Gradient: Importance of Competition and Energetic Constraint. Ecology. 1997 ;78(5):1502.

Ballance LT, Pitman RL. Cetaceans of the Western Tropical Indian Ocean: Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Comparisons with Cetacean Communities of Two Other Tropical Ecosystems. Marine Mammal Science. 1998 ;14(3):429-459.

Pitman RL, Jehl JR. Geographic variation and reassessment of species limits in “Masked” Boobies of the eastern Pacific. Wilson Bulletin. 1998 ;110:155-170.

Pitman RL, Palacios DM, Brennan PLR, Brennan BJ, Balcomb KC, Miyashita T. Sightings and Possible Identity of a Bottlenose Whale in the Tropical Indo-Pacific: Indopacetus Pacificus?. Marine Mammal Science. 1999 ;15(2):513-518.

Pitman RL, Lynn S. Biological observations of an unidentified mesoplodont whale in the eastern tropical Pacific and probable identity: Mesoplodon peruvianus. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):648-657. 2001 ;17(3):648-657.

Ballance LT, Anderson RC, Pitman RL, Stafford K, Shaan A, Waheed Z, Jr. RLBrownell. Cetacean sightings around the Republic of the Maldives, April 1998. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 2001 ;3(2):213-218.

Pitman RL, Ballance LT, Mesnick SL, Chivers SJ. Killer whale predation on sperm whales: observations and implications. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):494-507. 2001 ;17(3):494-507.

Pitman RL, Ballance LT. The changing status of marine birds breeding at San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Wilson Bulletin. 2002 ;114(1):11-19.

Pitman RL. Indo- Pacific Beaked Whale (Indopacetus pacificus). In: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. ; 2002. pp. 615-617.

Cheng L, Pitman RL. Mass Oviposition and Egg Development of the Ocean-Skater Halobates sobrinus (Heteroptera: Gerridae). Pacific Science. 2002 ;56(4):441 - 447.

Pitman RL. Mesoplodont whales (Mesoplodon spp.). In: Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals. San Diego: Academic Press; 2002. pp. 738-742.