Blue Whale Home Ranges, West Coast

Jul 5, 2017 (Last modified May 7, 2021)
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This layer shows Home Ranges (HR: 90% fixed kernel density distribution) created from blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) satellite tracks with greater than or equal to 30 daily locations inside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.

Shading represents the number of individual whale home ranges overlapping in an area. Number of overlapping areas was used as a metric to characterize use by the tagged whales. Tags were deployed off California from 1998–2008.
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Principal Investigator and Data Owner: Daniel M. Palacios
Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center,Newport, Oregon

Publication Co-Authors:

Ladd M. Irvine, Bruce R. Mate, Martha H. Winsor and Daniel M. Palacios of the Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center,Newport, Oregon

Steven J. Bograd of NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC/Environmental Research Division, Pacific Grove, California

Daniel P. Costa of the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Long Marine Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California

Helen Bailey of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland
Content date:
1998 to 2008
Citation:
Irvine LM, Mate BR, Winsor MH, Palacios DM, Bograd SJ, et al. (2014) Spatial and Temporal Occurrence of Blue Whales off the U.S. West Coast, with Implications for Management. PLoS ONE 9(7): e102959. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102959
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Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Hatfield Marine Science Center,
Newport, Oregon, United States of America
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satellite tracking, blue whale, telemetry, occurrence, home range, cetacean, core area
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