Spatial and Temporal Occurrence of Blue Whales off the U.S. West Coast, with Implications for Management

• Ladd M. Irvine ,

  * E-mail: ladd.irvine@oregonstate.edu

  Affiliation 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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• Bruce R. Mate,

  Affiliation 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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• Martha H. Winsor,

  Affiliation 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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• Daniel M. Palacios,

  Current address: 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

  Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystems and Climate, Institute of Marine Sciences, Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America, NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC/Environmental Research Division, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

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• Steven J. Bograd,

  Affiliation NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC/Environmental Research Division, Pacific Grove, California, United States of America

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• Daniel P. Costa,

  Affiliation Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Long Marine Laboratory, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Helen Bailey

  Affiliation Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, Maryland, United States of America

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