Eastern Temperate North Pacific Offshore Killer Whales ( Orcinus orca ): Occurrence, Movements, and Insights into Feeding Ecology

By M. Dahlheim, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, Nancy A. Black, Richard Ternullo, D. Ellifrit, K. Balcomb. 2008

125 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology

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In Atmospheric Science

1. John K. B. Ford
2. L. Barrett‐Lennard
3. C. Matkin
4. G. Ellis
5. Mary‐Anne Lea
6. S. Ferguson
7. D. Noren
8. Rob Williams

In Ecology

1. John K. B. Ford
2. G. Ellis
3. C. Matkin
4. L. Barrett‐Lennard
5. R. Riesch
6. S. Ferguson
7. V. Deecke
8. Gordon Hastie

Citations in the corpus

• Confusion reigns? A review of marine megafauna interactions with tidal-stream environments (2015, background): “Killer whales (Orcinus orca) have a worldwide distribution in both inshore and offshore waters and are subdivided into numerous ecotypes, each apparently specialised in feeding on particular prey types (e.g. Bigg et al. 1987, Pitman & Ensor 2003, Dahlheim et al. 2008).”
• Satellite tracking of a killer whale (Orcinus orca) in the eastern Canadian Arctic documents ice avoidance and rapid, long-distance movement into the North Atlantic (2011, background): “The short period within which the whale traveled from Lancaster Sound to the mid-North Atlantic (*1 month) is also noteworthy, as previous reports of long-distance movements by killer whales have been inferred from photo-identification matches separated by periods of several months (e.g., Dahlheim ”
• Shark predation and tooth wear in a population of northeastern Pacific killer whales (2011, background): “Individual photo-identification matches show extensive movements of whales throughout outer coast waters from southern California to the eastern Aleutian Islands, Alaska (Black et al. 1997, Ford et al. 2000, Dahlheim et al. 2008).”
• Cultural traditions and the evolution of reproductive isolation: ecological speciation in killer whales? (2012, background): “…have yet to be fully described, but preliminary observations suggest that they also specialize on fish such as Pacific sleeper shark (Somniosus pacificus) and Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis); (Jones, 2006; Krahn et al., 2007; Dahlheim et al., 2008; Ford & Ellis, 2012; Ford et al., 2011).”