Protected Species Research Publications - Abundance and Distribution

2015-2016

• Becker et al. 2016. Moving towards dynamic ocean management: how well do modeled ocean products predict species distributions? Remote Sensing
• Bradford et al. 2016. Abundance estimates of cetaceans from a line-transect survey within the U.S. Hawaiian Islands Exclusive Economic Zone. Fishery Bulletin
• Cise et al. 2016. Redrawing the map: mtDNA provides new insights into the distribution and diversity of short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean. Marine Mammal Science
• Cram et al. 2016. Spatial variability of Chinook salmon spawning site fidelity and habitat preferences. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Durban et al. 2016. Photogrammetry of blue whales with an unmanned hexacopter.  Marine Mammal Science
• Hazen et al. 2016. WhaleWatch: a dynamic management tool for predicting blue whale density in the California Current. Journal of Applied Ecology
• Howell et al. 2016. Ontogenetic shifts in diet and habitat of juvenile green sea turtles in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Jorgensen et al. 2016. Assessing spatial covariance among time series of abundance. Ecology and Evolution
• McClatchie et al. 2016. Food limitation of sea lion pups and the decline of forage off central and southern California. Royal Society Open Science
• Miller et al. 2016. Decadal comparison of a diminishing coral community: a case study using demographics to advance inferences of community status.  PeerJ
• Nadeem et al.  2016. Integrating population dynamics models and distance sampling data: a spatial hierarchical state-space approach. Ecology
• Pugliares et al. 2016. First records of the short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in Massachusetts, USA: 1980 and 2011. Aquatic Mammals
• Roberts et al. 2016. Habitat-based cetacean density models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Scientific Reports
• Roegner et al. 2016. Comparative use by Pacific salmon of shallow and deepwater habitats in the Columbia River estuary prior to ocean entry. Journal of Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science
• Rosel et al. 2016. First record of Antarctic minke whale, Balaenoptera bonaerensis, in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records
• Sather et al. 2016. Shallow tidal freshwater habitats of the Columbia River: spatial and temporal variability of fish communities and density, size, and genetic stock composition of juvenile Chinook Salmon. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society
• Sinclair et al. 2016. Extended movements of common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) along the northern Gulf of Mexico's central coast. Gulf of Mexico Science

2017

• Becker et al. 2017. Habitat-based density models for three cetacean species off Southern California illustrate pronounced seasonal differences.  Frontiers in Marine Science
• Boyd et al. 2017. Estimation of population size and trends for highly mobile species with dynamic spatial distributions. Diversity and Distributions
• Davis et al. 2017. Long-term passive acoustic recordings track the changing distribution of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) from 2004 to 2014. Scientific Reports
• Gaos et al. 2017. Living on the edge: hawksbill turtle nesting and conservation along the eastern Pacific Rim. Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research
• Holst et al. 2017. Cetacean sightings and acoustic detections during a seismic survey off Nicaragua and Costa Rica, November-December 2004. International Journal of Tropical Biology
• Pace et al. 2017. State-space mark-recapture estimates reveal a recent decline in abundance of North Atlantic right whales. Ecology and Evolution
• Redfern et al. 2017. Predicting cetacean distributions in data-poor marine ecosystems. Biodiversity Research
• Roden et al. 2017. Genetic fingerprinting reveals natal origins of male leatherback turtles encountered in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology
• Silber et al. 2017. Projecting marine mammal distribution in a changing climate. Frontiers in Marine Science 
• Soldevilla et al. 2017. Geographic variation in Risso’s dolphin echolocation click spectra. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
• Van Cise et al. 2017. Acoustic differentiation of Shiho- and Naisa-type short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

2018

• Avens and Dell’Amico. 2018. Evaluating viability of sea turtle foraging populations at high latitudes: age and growth of juveniles along the French Atlantic coast. Endangered Species Research
• Becker et al. 2018. Predicting cetacean abundance and distribution in a changing climate. Diversity and Distributions
• Braun McNeill et al. 2018. Trends in fishery-dependent captures of sea turtles in a western North Atlantic foraging region. Endangered Species Research
• Chivers et al. 2018. Reproduction and morphology of Central American and Tres Marias spinner dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific. Marine Mammal Science
• Fiedler et al. 2018. Prediction of large whale distributions: a comparison of presence–absence and presence-only modeling techniques. Frontiers in Marine Science
• Fleming et al. 2018. Combining acoustic and visual detections in habitat models of Dall’s porpoise. Ecological Modelling
• Friedman et al. 2018. Environmental and geographic relationships among salmon forage assemblages along the continental shelf of the California Current. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Hill et al. 2018. Short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) of the Mariana Archipelago: individual affiliations, movements, and spatial use. Marine Mammal Science
• Murakawa and Stover 2018. Impact of exceptional growth rates on estimations of life-stage duration in Hawaiian green sea turtles.  Endangered Species Research
• Oppel et al. 2018. Spatial scales of marine conservation management for breeding seabirds. Marine Policy
• Pitman et al. 2018. Abundance and population status of Ross Sea killer whales (Orcinus orca, type C) in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica: evidence for impact by commercial fishing? Polar Biology
• Stewart et al. 2018.  Using mixed stock analysis to assess source populations for at‐sea bycaught juvenile and adult loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the north‐west Atlantic. Fish and Fisheries

2019

• Baylis et al. 2019. Re-evaluating the population size of South American fur seals in the Atlantic and conservation techniques. Aquatic Conservation 
• Becker et al. 2019. Densities and drivers of sea turtle populations across Pacific coral reef ecosystems. PLoS ONE
• Brame et al. 2019. Biology, ecology, and status of the smalltooth sawfish, Pristis pectinata, in the USA. Endangered Species Research 
• Hager et al. 2019. Comparing abundance estimates from closed population mark-recapture models of endangered adult Atlantic sturgeon. Endangered Species Research
• Hetherington et al. 2019. Re-examining trophic dead ends: stable isotope values link gelatinous zooplankton to leatherback turtles in the California Current. Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Hildebrand et al. 2019. Assessing seasonality and density from passive acoustic monitoring of signals presumed to be from pygmy and dwarf sperm whales in the Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Marine Science
• Kahn et al. 2019. Comparing abundance estimates from closed population mark recapture models of endangered adult Atlantic sturgeon. Endangered Species Research
• Merkens et al. 2019.  Geographic and temporal patterns in the acoustic detection of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the central and western North Pacific Ocean. Endangered Species Research
• Pitman et al. 2019.  Enigmatic megafauna – type D killer whale in the Southern Ocean. Ecology
• Putts et al. 2019. Structure and development of Hawaiian deep-water coral communities on Mauna Loa lava flows. Marine Ecology Progress Series