Characterizing a Foraging Hotspot for Short-Finned Pilot Whales and Blainville's Beaked Whales Located off the West Side of Hawai'i Island by Using Tagging and Oceanographic Data.

Satellite tagging data for short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) and Blainville's beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) were used to identify core insular foraging regions off the Kona (west) Coast of Hawai'i Island. Ship-based active acoustic surveys and oceanographic m...

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Main Authors: Melanie Abecassis, Jeffrey Polovina, Robin W Baird, Adrienne Copeland, Jeffrey C Drazen, Reka Domokos, Erin Oleson, Yanli Jia, Gregory S Schorr, Daniel L Webster, Russel D Andrews
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4659615?pdf=render