Marine Mammal Institute

Ballance, L. T. (2007). Understanding seabirds at sea: why and how? . Marine Ornithology , 35, 127-135.

Barlow, J., Ferguson, M., Perrin, W. F., Ballance, L. T., Gerrodette, T., Joyce, G., et al.. (2006). Abundance and density of beaked and bottlenose whales (Family Ziphiidae). Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 7(3):263-270., 7(3), 263-270.

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.

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.

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.

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

Vilchis, L. I., Ballance, L. T., & Fiedler, P. C.. (2006). Pelagic habitat of seabirds in the eastern tropical Pacific: effects of foraging ecology on habitat selection. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 315, 279 - 292. doi:10.3354/meps315279

Lavín, M. F., Fiedler, P. C., Amador, J. A., Ballance, L. T., Färber-Lorda, J., & Mestas-Nuñez, A. M.. (2006). A review of eastern tropical Pacific oceanography: Summary. Progress in Oceanography, 69(2-4), 391 - 398. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2006.03.005

Redfern, J. V., Ferguson, M. C., Becker, E. A., Hyrenbach, K. D., Good, C. P., Barlow, J., et al.. (2006). Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 310. doi:10.3354/meps310271

Redfern, J. V., Ferguson, M. C., Becker, E. A., Hyrenbach, K. D., Good, C., Barlow, J., et al.. (2006). Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 310, 271 - 295. doi:10.3354/meps310271

Karnovsky, J. J., Spear, L. B., Carter, H. R., Ainley, D. G., Amey, K. D., Ballance, L. T., et al.. (2005). At-sea distribution, abundance and habitat affinities of Xantus’s Murrelets. Marine Ornithology, 33, 89-104.

Pitman, R. L., Ballance, L. T., & Bost, C.. (2005). Clipperton Island: Pig sty, rat hole and booby prize. Marine Ornithology, 33, 193-194.

Borberg, J. M., Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Ainley, D. G.. (2005). A test for bias attributable to seabird avoidance of ships during surveys conducted in the tropical Pacific. Marine Ornithology, 33, 173-179.

Ford, R. G., Ainley, D. G., Casey, J. L., Keiper, C. A., Spear, L. B., & Ballance, L. T.. (2004). The biogeographic patterns of seabirds in the central portion of the California Current. Marine Ornithology, 32, 77-96.

Ballance, L. T. (2002). Cetacean Ecology. In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (pp. 208-214). San Diego: Academic Press.

Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2002). The changing status of marine birds breeding at San Benedicto Island, Mexico. Wilson Bulletin, 114(1), 11-19.

Ballance, L. T. (2002). Review of Cormorant harassment to protect juvenile salmonids in Tillamook County, Oregon. Marine Ornithology, 30, 54.

Ballance, L. T., Anderson, R. C., Pitman, R. L., Stafford, K., Shaan, A., Waheed, Z., & Jr., R. L. Brownell. (2001). Cetacean sightings around the Republic of the Maldives, April 1998. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, 3(2), 213-218.

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.

Spear, L. B., Ballance, L. T., & Ainley, D. G.. (2001). Response of seabirds to thermal boundaries in the tropical Pacific: the thermocline versus the Equatorial Front. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 219, 275 - 289. doi:10.3354/meps219275

Ballance, L. T., Ainley, D. G., & Hunt, G. L.. (2001). Seabird Foraging Ecology. In Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Vol. 5, pp. 2636-2644). London: Academic Press.

Hertel, F., & Ballance, L. T.. (1999). Wing Ecomorphology of Seabirds from Johnston Atoll. The Condor, 101(3), 549 - 556. doi:10.2307/1370184

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

Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., & Reilly, S. B.. (1997). Seabird Community Structure Along a Productivity Gradient: Importance of Competition and Energetic Constraint. Ecology, 78(5), 1502. doi:10.2307/2266144

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