Marine Mammal Institute

Ballance, L. T. (2020). (Book Review) European Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises: Marine Mammal Conservation in Practice. Quarterly Review of Biology, 95, 258.

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

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.

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

Mesnick, S. L., Ballance, L. T., Wade, P. R., Pryor, K., & Reeves, R. R.. (2019). Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine MammalsEthology and Behavioral Ecology of OdontocetesOceanic Dolphin Societies: Diversity, Complexity, and Conservation. (B. Würsig, Ed.) (pp. 183 - 209). Cham: Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16663-2_9

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

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

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

Ballance, L. T. (2018). Cetacean Ecology. In Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (Third Edition., pp. 172-180). San Diego: Elsevier.

Ballance, L. T. (2018). Contributions of Photographs to Cetacean Science. Aquatic Mammals, 44(6), 668 - 682. doi:10.1578/AM.44.6.2018.668

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

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

Ballance, L. T. (2017). Book Review: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Martin, S. L., Ballance, L. T., & Groves, T.. (2016). An Ecosystem Services Perspective for the Oceanic Eastern Tropical Pacific: Commercial Fisheries, Carbon Storage, Recreational Fishing, and Biodiversity. Frontiers in Marine Science, 3. doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00050

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

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

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

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