Marine Mammal Institute

Pitman, R. L. (2015). Antarctic orcas. In Visual Encyclopedia of Orca (pp. 126-135). Yokohama, Japan: Sphere Books.

Carroll, E., Brooks, L., C. Baker, S., Burns, D., Garrigue, C., Hauser, N., et al.. (2015). Assessing the design and power of capture-recapture studies to estimate demographic parameters for the Endangered Oceania humpback whale population. Endangered Species Research, 28(2), 147 - 162. doi:10.3354/esr00686

de Moura, J. Fulgencio, Merico, A., Montone, R. Carmela, Silva, J., Seixas, T. Guedes, Godoy, J. Marcus de, et al.. (2015). Assessment of trace elements, POPs, ²¹⁰Po and stable isotopes (¹⁵N and ¹³C) in a rare filter-feeding shark: The megamouth. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 95(1), 402 - 406. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.03.038

Zerbini, A. N., Friday, N. A., Palacios, D. M., Waite, J. M., Ressler, P. H., Rone, B. K., et al.. (2015). Baleen whale abundance and distribution in relation to environmental variables and prey density in the Eastern Bering Sea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2015.11.002

Hazen, E. L., Friedlaender, A., & Goldbogen, J. A.. (2015). Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) optimize foraging efficiency by balancing oxygen use and energy gain as a function of prey density. Science Advances, 1(9). doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500469

Orben, R. A., Paredes, R., Roby, D. D., Irons, D. B., & Shaffer, S. A.. (2015). Body size affects individual winter foraging strategies of thick-billed murres (Uria lomvia) in the Bering Sea. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(6), 1589-1599. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.12410

Thompson, K. F., Patel, S., C. Baker, S., Constantine, R., & Millar, C. D.. (2015). Bucking the trend: genetic analysis reveals high diversity, large population size and low differentiation in a deep ocean cetacean. Heredity. doi:10.1038/hdy.2015.99

Squires, D., Ballance, L. T., Deriso, R., Ianelli, J., Maunder, M., & Schaefer, K.. (2015). Comment on ‘Scope and compatibility of measures in international fisheries agreements’ by Finus and Schneider. Oxford Economic Papers, 67(4), 889 - 894. doi:10.1093/oep/gpv041

Mate, B. R., Ilyashenko, V. Y., Bradford, A. L., Vertyankin, V. V., Tsidulko, G. A., Rozhnov, V. V., & Irvine, L.. (2015). Critically endangered western gray whales migrate to the eastern North Pacific. Biology Letters, 11(4), 20150071. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2015.0071

Carroll, E., C. Baker, S., Watson, M., Alderman, R., Bannister, J., Gaggiotti, O. E., et al.. (2015). Cultural traditions across a migratory network shape the genetic structure of southern right whales around Australia and New Zealand. Scientific Reports, 5, 16182. doi:10.1038/srep16182

Pallin, L., Adams, E. M., Goyert, H. F., Friedlaender, A., & Johnston, D. W.. (2015). Density modeling for marine mammals and sea turtles with environmental covariates. In Wildlife Densities and Habitat Use Across Temporal and Spatial Scales on the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf: Final Report to the Department of Energy EERE Wind & Water Power Technologies Office. Biodiversity Research Institute.

Baylis, A. M. M., Orben, R. A., Arnould, J. P. Y., Christiansen, F., Hays, G. C., & Staniland, I. J.. (2015). Disentangling the cause of a catastrophic population decline in a large marine mammal. Ecology, 96(10), 2834-2847. doi:10.1890/14-1948.1

Leduc, D., Rowden, A. A., Torres, L. G., Nodder, S. D., & Pallentin, A.. (2015). Distribution of macro-infaunal communities in phosphorite nodule deposits on Chatham Rise, Southwest Pacific: Implications for management of seabed mining. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 99, 105 - 118. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2015.01.006

Baylis, A. M. M., Orben, R. A., Arnould, J. P. Y., Peters, K., Knox, T., Costa, D. P., & Staniland, I. J.. (2015). Diving deeper into individual foraging specializations of a large marine predator, the southern sea lion. Oecologia, 179(4), 1053-1065. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3421-4

Shuert, C., Horning, M., & Mellish, J. - A.. (2015). The Effect of Novel Research Activities on Long-term Survival of Temporarily Captive Steller Sea Lions (Eumetopias jubatus). (D. E. Crocker, Ed.)PLOS ONE, 10(11), e0141948. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141948.s004

Bejder, M., Johnston, D. W., Smith, J., Friedlaender, A., & Bejder, L.. (2015). Embracing conservation success of recovering humpback whale populations: Evaluating the case for downlisting their conservation status in Australia. Marine Policy. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2015.05.007

Hindle, A., Horning, M., & Mellish, J. - A. E.. (2015). Estimating total body heat dissipation in air and water from skin surface heat flux telemetry in Weddell seals. Animal Biotelemetry, 3, 50. doi:10.1186/s40317-015-0081-4

Orbach, D. N., Packard, J. M., Kirchner, T., & Würsig, B.. (2015). Evasive behaviours of female dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) during exploitative scramble competition. Behaviour. doi:10.1163/1568539X-00003310

Steel, D. J., Stewart, B. G., Trewick, S. A., & Wallis, G. P.. (2015). Fiord populations of Astrobrachion constrictum (Ophiuroidea: Asteroschematidae) show little genetic differentiation for mitochondrial DNA. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 42131(3), 165 - 172. doi:10.1080/03014223.2015.1059863

Paredes, R., Orben, R. A., Roby, D. D., Irons, D. B., Young, R., Renner, H., et al.. (2015). Foraging ecology during nesting influences body size in a pursuit-diving seabird. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 533, 261 - 276. doi:10.3354/meps11388

Mellish, J. - A., Hindle, A., Skinner, J., & Horning, M.. (2015). Heat loss in air of an Antarctic marine mammal, the Weddell seal. Journal of Comparative Physiology B, 185(1), 143-152. doi:10.1007/s00360-014-0868-2

Tezanos-Pinto, G., Constantine, R., Mourão, F., Berghan, J., & C. Baker, S.. (2015). High calf mortality in bottlenose dolphins in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand-a local unit in decline. Marine Mammal Science, 31(2), 540 - 559. doi:10.1111/mms.12174

Huggins, J. L., Raverty, S. A., Norman, S. A., Calambokidis, J., Gaydos, J. K., Duffield, D. A., et al.. (2015). Increased harbor porpoise mortality in the Pacific Northwest, USA: understanding when higher levels may be normal. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 115(2), 93 - 102. doi:10.3354/dao02887

Pardo, M. A., Gerrodette, T., Beier, E., Gendron, D., Forney, K. A., Chivers, S. J., et al.. (2015). Inferring Cetacean Population Densities from the Absolute Dynamic Topography of the Ocean in a Hierarchical Bayesian Framework. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0120727. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0120727

Caballero, S., Duchêne, S., Garavito, M. F., Slikas, B., & C. Baker, S.. (2015). Initial Evidence for Adaptive Selection on the NADH Subunit Two of Freshwater Dolphins by Analyses of Mitochondrial Genomes. PLOS ONE, 10(5), e0123543. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123543