Marine Mammal Institute

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

Nur, N., Jahncke, J., Herzog, M. P., Howar, J., K. Hyrenbach, D., Zamon, J. E., et al.. (2011). Where the wild things are: predicting hotspots of seabird aggregations in the California Current System. Ecological Applications, 21(6), 2241 - 2257. doi:10.1890/10-1460.1

Pitman, R. L., Totterdell, J. A., Fearnbach, H., Ballance, L. T., Durban, J. W., & Kemps, H.. (2015). Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia. Marine Mammal Science, 31(2), 629 - 657. doi:10.1111/mms.12182

Joyce, T. W., Durban, J. W., Fearnbach, H., Claridge, D., & Ballance, L. T.. (2016). Use of time-at-temperature data to describe dive behavior in five species of sympatric deep-diving toothed whales. Marine Mammal Science, 32(3), 1044 - 1071. doi:10.1111/mms.12323

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

Szesciorka, A. R., Ballance, L. T., Širovic, A., Rice, A., Ohman, M. D., Hildebrand, J. A., & Franks, P. J. S.. (2020). Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration. Scientific Reports, 10(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-64855-y

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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. (1990). Residence patterns, group organization, and surfacing associations of bottlenose dolphins in Kino Bay, Gulf of California, Mexico. In The bottlenose dolphin (pp. 267-283). Academic Press.

Ballance, L. T., Pitman, R. L., Hewitt, R. P., Siniff, D. B., Trivelpiece, W. Z., Clapham, P. J., & Jr., R. L. Brownel. (2007). The removal of large whales from the Southern Ocean. Evidence for long-term ecosystem effects?. In Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems (pp. 215 - 230). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. doi:10.1525/california/9780520248847.003.0017