Spatial and temporal occurrence of blue whales off the U.S. West Coast, with implications for management

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Irvine, Ladd M ^a   Mate, Bruce R ^a   Winsor, Martha H ^a   Palacios, Daniel M ^a,b,c   Bograd, Steven J ^c   Costa, Daniel P ^d   Bailey, Helen ^e  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BLUE WHALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EL NINO; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOME RANGE; NONHUMAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER UPWELLING; SHIPPING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED STATES; WHALE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BALAENOPTERA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PACIFIC OCEAN; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BALAENOPTERA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84904670750     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102959     Document Type: Article

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