Marine Mammal Institute

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

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

Joyce, T. W., Durban, J. W., Claridge, D. E., Dunn, C. A., Fearnbach, H., Parsons, K. M., et al.. (2017). Physiological, morphological, and ecological tradeoffs influence vertical habitat use of deep-diving toothed-whales in the Bahamas. (S. Li, Ed.)PLOS ONE, 12(10), e0185113. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185113

Force, M. P., & Ballance, L. T.. (2009). A Pink-footed Shearwater in Hawai’i. ‘Elepaio, 69(6), 39-40. Retrieved from https://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/CR/2009/2009Force.pdf

Redfern, J. V., Moore, T. J., Fiedler, P. C., de Vos, A., Brownell, R. L., Forney, K. A., et al.. (2017). Predicting cetacean distributions in data-poor marine ecosystems. (R. Heikkinen, Ed.)Diversity and Distributions, 23(4), 394 - 408. doi:10.1111/ddi.12537

Fiedler, P. C., Redfern, J. V., Forney, K. A., Palacios, D. M., Sheredy, C., Rasmussen, K., et al.. (2018). Prediction of Large Whale Distributions: A Comparison of Presence–Absence and Presence-Only Modeling Techniques. Frontiers in Marine Science, 5. doi:10.3389/fmars.2018.00419

Ruiz-Cooley, R. I., Ballance, L. T., & McCarthy, M. D.. (2013). Range Expansion of the Jumbo Squid in the NE Pacific: δ15N Decrypts Multiple Origins, Migration and Habitat Use. (H. Browman, Ed.)PLoS ONE, 8(3), e59651. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059651

Ballance, L. T. (1992). Ranges and habitat utilization patterns of the bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, in the Gulf of California, Mexico. Marine Mammal Science, 8, 262-274.

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

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

Andrews, R. D., Pitman, R. L., & Ballance, L. T.. (2008). Satellite tracking reveals distinct movement patterns for Type B and Type C killer whales in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Polar Biology, 31(12), 1461 - 1468. doi:10.1007/s00300-008-0487-z

Ballance, L. T. (2020). Sea change: Reflections on a career as a female marine mammal scientist. Whalewatcher. Journal of the American Cetacean Society, 43(1), 27-29.

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

Leander, S. G. M., Durban, J. W., Danil, K., Fearnbach, H., Joyce, T. W., & Ballance, L. T.. (2021). Sexually dimorphic measurements from stranded and bycaught specimens contribute to the characterization of group composition in free‐ranging common dolphins (Delphinus spp.) from aerial images. Marine Mammal Science. doi:10.1111/mms.12804

Lyday, S. E., Ballance, L. T., Field, D. B., & K. Hyrenbach, D.. (2015). Shearwaters as ecosystem indicators: Towards fishery-independent metrics of fish abundance in the California Current. Journal of Marine Systems, 146, 109 - 120. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2014.08.010

Hetherington, E. D., Olson, R. J., Drazen, J. C., Lennert-Cody, C. E., Ballance, L. T., Kaufmann, R. S., & Popp, B. N.. (2017). Spatial food-web structure in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean based on compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids. Limnology and Oceanography, 62(2), 541 - 560. doi:10.1002/lno.10443

Ballance, L. T. (2007). Storm-Petrels of the Eastern Pacific Ocean: Species Assembly and Diversity along Marine Habitat Gradients (Review) . Ibis, 149.

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

L. Vilchis, I., Ballance, L. T., & Watson, W.. (2009). Temporal variability of neustonic ichthyoplankton assemblages of the eastern Pacific warm pool: Can community structure be linked to climate variability?. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 56(1), 125 - 140. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2008.08.004

Schlenger, A. J., Libralato, S., & Ballance, L. T.. (2019). Temporal Variability of Primary Production Explains Marine Ecosystem Structure and Function. Ecosystems, 22(2), 331 - 345. doi:10.1007/s10021-018-0272-y

Ruiz-Cooley, R. I., Gerrodette, T., Fiedler, P. C., Chivers, S. J., Danil, K., & Ballance, L. T.. (2017). Temporal variation in pelagic food chain length in response to environmental change. Science Advances, 3(10), e1701140. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1701140

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.