Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Sironi, M., Totterdell, J., Towers, J. R., & Wellard, R.. (2020). Enigmatic megafauna: type D killer whale in the Southern Ocean. Ecology, 101(1). doi:10.1002/ecy.2871

Pyle, P., Friedrichsen, G., Staudt, T., Oedekoven, C., & Ballance, L. T.. (2006). First record of Ringed Storm-Petrel (Oceanodroma hornbyi) for North America. North American Birds, 60(1), 162-163.

Force, M. P., Cotton, J. M., Rowlett, R. A., & Ballance, L. T.. (2009). First records of Chatham Island Petrel Pterodroma axillaris in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Ornithology , 37(3), 277-279. Retrieved from http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/37_3/37_3_277-279.pdf

Brooke, M. D. L., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Furness, R. W.. (2006). Fishery impacts on the food supplies of seabirds. Acta Zoologica Sinica, 52, 639-640.

Ballance, L. T. (1995). Flight energetics of free-ranging Red-footed Boobies, Sula sula. Physiological Zoology, 68, 887-914.

Olson, R. J., Popp, B. N., Graham, B. S., López-Ibarra, G. A., Galván-Magaña, F., Lennert-Cody, C. E., et al.. (2010). Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean. Progress in Oceanography, 86(1-2), 124 - 138. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.026

Jefferson, T. A., Weir, C. R., R. Anderson, C., Ballance, L. T., Kenney, R. D., & Kiszka, J. J.. (2014). Global distribution of Risso's dolphin Grampus griseus : a review and critical evaluation. Mammal Review, 44(1), 56 - 68. doi:10.1111/mam.12008

Forney, K. A., Ferguson, M. C., Becker, E. A., Fiedler, P. C., Redfern, J. V., Barlow, J., et al.. (2012). Habitat-based spatial models of cetacean density in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Endangered Species Research, 16(2), 113 - 133. doi:10.3354/esr00393

Pagen, R., Pyle, P., & Ballance, L. T.. (2008). A Fregetta storm-petrel off Mexico. Western Birds, 39, 225-227.

Dunn, D. C., Harrison, A. - L., Curtice, C., DeLand, S., Donnelly, B., Fujioka, E., et al.. (2019). The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1911), 20191472. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1472

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C. A.. (2012). Incidence of Wing Deformities (‘Angel Wing’) Among Masked Boobies at Clipperton Island: Life History Consequences and Insight into Etiology. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 124(3), 597 - 602. doi:10.1676/11-208.1

Ballance, L. T. (2017). Whales, Dolphins & Porpoises: A Natural History and Species Guide. Edited by Annalisa Berta. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. 2015.. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 92(1), 113 - 114. doi:10.1086/690898

Foote, A. D., Martin, M. D., Louis, M., Pacheco, G., Robertson, K. M., Sinding, M. ‐H. S., et al.. (2019). Killer whale genomes reveal a complex history of recurrent admixture and vicariance. Molecular Ecology, 28(14), 3427-3444. doi:10.1111/mec.15099

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., Mesnick, S. L., & Chivers, S. J.. (2001). Killer whale predation on sperm whales: observations and implications. Marine Mammal Science 17(3):494-507, 17(3), 494-507.

Pitman, R. L., Fearnbach, H., LeDuc, R., Gilpatrick, J. W., Ford, J. K. B., & Ballance, L. T.. (2007). Killer whales preying on a blue whale calf on the Costa Rica Dome: genetics, morphometrics, vocalizations and composition of the group. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management , 9(2), 151-158.

MacLeod, C., Perrin, W. F., Pitman, R. L., Barlow, J., Ballance, L. T., D’Amico, A., et al.. (2006). Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 7(3), 271-286.

Weimerskirch, H., Le Corre, M., Bost, C. A., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Charpy, L.. (2009). L’avifaune et l’écologie des oiseaux marin. Clipperton, environnement et biodiversité d’un microcosme océanique, 381-392.

Young, H., Nigro, K., McCauley, D. J., Ballance, L. T., Oleson, E. M., & Baumann-Pickering, S.. (2017). Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll. (E. Gorokhova, Ed.)PLOS ONE, 12(8), e0181526. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181526

Albarrán, X. Trejo, González, L. Medrano, Urbán-Ramirez, J., & Ballance, L. T.. (2017). Los mamíferos marinos del archipiélago de Revillagigedo. Ecológica, (209). Retrieved from https://www.jornada.com.mx/2016/11/28/eco-e.html

Jones, T., Parrish, J. K., Peterson, W. T., Bjorkstedt, E. P., Bond, N. A., Ballance, L. T., et al.. (2018). Massive Mortality of a Planktivorous Seabird in Response to a Marine Heatwave. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(7), 3193 - 3202. doi:10.1002/2017GL076164

Croll, D. A., Ballance, L. T., Wursig, B. G., & Tyler, W. B.. (1986). Movements and daily activity patterns of a Brown Pelican in central California. Condor, 88, 258-260.

Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Fiedler, P. C.. (2006). Oceanographic influences on seabirds and cetaceans of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4), 360 - 390. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2006.03.013

Guy, T. J., Jennings, S. L., Suryan, R. M., Melvin, E. F., Bellman, M. A., Ballance, L. T., et al.. (2013). Overlap of North Pacific albatrosses with the U.S. west coast groundfish and shrimp fisheries. Fisheries Research, 147, 222 - 234. doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2013.06.009

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (1992). Parkinson's Petrel Distribution and Foraging Ecology in the Eastern Pacific: Aspects of an Exclusive Feeding Relationship with Dolphins. The Condor, 94(4), 825 - 835. doi:10.2307/1369280

Priddel, D., Carlile, N., Portelli, D., Kim, Y., O'Neill, L., Bretagnolle, V., et al.. (2014). Pelagic distribution of Gould's Petrel (Pterodroma leucoptera): linking shipboard and onshore observations with remote-tracking data. Emu - Austral Ornithology, 114(4), 360 - 370. doi:10.1071/MU14021