Cuvier's Beaked Whale Presence Relative to Vertical and Temporal Variability of Oceanographic Conditions in the Southern California Bight

• Main Authors: Schoenbeck, Clara, Solsona-Berga, Alba, Franks, Peter, Frasier, Kaitlin, Trickey, Jennifer, Aguilar, Catalina, Schroeder, Isaac, Sirovic, Ana, Bograd, Steven, Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh, Baumann-Pickering, Simone
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Authorea, Inc. 2024
• Subjects: Pacific; Pew; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.171682262.20526131/v1

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 Cuvier’s beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris). Cuvier’s beaked whales are deep-diving odontocetes that spend a majority...