What Happened to Gray Whales during the Pleistocene? The Ecological Impact of Sea-Level Change on Benthic Feeding Areas in the North Pacific Ocean

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Pyenson, Nicholas D., Lindberg, David R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Baja; Bering Shelf; Pacific; Chukchi; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/17514; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0021295

Gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) undertake long migrations, from Baja California to Alaska, to feed on seasonally productive benthos of the Bering and Chukchi seas. The invertebrates that form their primary prey are restricted to shallow water environments, but global sea-level changes during the...