Exploring variability in the diet of depredating sperm whales in the Gulf of Alaska through stable isotope analysis

• Main Authors: Wild, Lauren A., Mueter, Franz, Witteveen, Briana H., Straley, Janice M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2020
• Subjects: stable isotope analysis; sperm whales; Gulf of Alaska; dietary mixing models; Myra; Scripps; Sperm whale; Alaska
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11940

Sperm whales interact with commercially important groundfish fisheries offshore in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This study aims to use stable isotope analysis to better understand the trophic variability of sperm whales and their potential prey, and to use dietary mixing models to estimate the importan...