Ziphius cavirostris presence relative to the vertical and temporal variability of oceanographic conditions in the Southern California Bight

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Schoenbeck, Clara M., Solsona‐Berga, Alba, Franks, Peter J. S., Frasier, Kaitlin E., Trickey, Jennifer S., Aguilar, Catalina, Schroeder, Isaac D., Širović, Ana, Bograd, Steven J., Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh, Baumann‐Pickering, Simone
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Pacific; Pew; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11708; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.11708

Abstract The oceanographic conditions of the Southern California Bight (SCB) dictate the distribution and abundance of prey resources and therefore the presence of mobile predators, such as goose‐beaked whales ( Ziphius cavirostris ). Goose‐beaked whales are deep‐diving odontocetes that spend a majo...