Patterns of habitat use by harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in central San Francisco Bay

• Main Author: Laura Margaret Duffy
• Other Authors: Sarah Cohen, Ellen Hines, Jonathan Stern
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco State University 2015
• Subjects: Golden Gate; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/163248

This research takes an innovative approach to modeling distribution of a marine predator explicitly in the temporal domain. Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) are a small cetacean seen in San Francisco Bay year round. Porpoise presence at the entrance of the Bay varies from zero sightings to over 1...