Natural populations that are rare, cryptic or inaccessible provide a monumental challenge to monitoring, as adequate data are extremely difficult

Despite strong interest in how noise affects marine mammals, little is known for the most abundant and commonly exposed taxa.

The Salish Sea supports several baleen whale species, including humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae), gray (Eschrichtius robustus) and minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata). With

This errata version corrects a species identification error in the original (removed by the authors and journal) publication, which incorrectly

Understanding the drivers of population abundance and distribution is fundamental to ecology and key to informing conservation actions, particularly in

Background To tag large marine vertebrates, without the need to catch them, avoiding using barbs for tag retention, and precisely

Beginning in December 2018, increased numbers of gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) strandings were reported along the west coast of Mexico,

Here we update U.S. West Coast Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) that were published in 2015 using new data and approaches.

For the 40 years after the end of commercial whaling in 1976, humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean

As populations of large whales recover from whaling, species that forage and breed in coastal waters, including the humpback whale