Mortality and injuries caused by ship strikes in U.S. waters are a cause of concern for the endangered population of blue
whales (Balaenoptera musculus) occupying the eastern North Pacific. We sought to determine which areas along the U.S.
West Coast are most important to blue whales and whether those areas...
Mortality and injuries caused by ship strikes in U.S. waters are a cause of concern for the endangered population of blue
whales (Balaenoptera musculus) occupying the eastern North Pacific. We sought to determine which areas along the U.S.
West Coast are most important to blue whales and whether those areas...
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the U.S. West
Coast, with Implications for Management
Irvine LM, Mate BR, Winsor MH, Palacios DM
Mortality and injuries caused by ship strikes in U.S. waters are a cause of concern for the endangered population of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) occupying the eastern North Pacific. We sought to determine which areas along the U.S. West Coast are most important to blue whales and whether those areas...
Stressors associated with human activities interact in complex ways to affect marine ecosystems,
yet we lack spatially explicit assessments of cumulative impacts on ecologically and
economically key components such as marine predators. Here we develop a metric of
cumulative utilization and impact (CUI) on marine predators by combining electronic tracking...
Stressors associated with human activities interact in complex ways to affect marine ecosystems,
yet we lack spatially explicit assessments of cumulative impacts on ecologically and
economically key components such as marine predators. Here we develop a metric of
cumulative utilization and impact (CUI) on marine predators by combining electronic tracking...
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, Ladd Irvine17, Birgitte I. McDonald19, Patrick W. Robinson11, Barbara A. Block3,4
& Daniel P. Costa11
Stressors associated with human activities interact in complex ways to affect marine ecosystems, yet we lack spatially explicit assessments of cumulative impacts on ecologically and economically key components such as marine predators. Here we develop a metric of cumulative utilization and impact (CUI) on marine predators by combining electronic tracking...