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Essential krill species habitat resolved by seasonal upwelling and ocean circulation models within the large marine ecosystem of the California Current System Cimino, Megan A., Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac Schroeder, William Sydeman, Elliott L. Hazen, and Steven J. Bograd Ecography

Integrating oceans into climate policy: Any green new deal needs a splash of blue Dundas, Steven J., Arielle S. Levine, Rebecca L. Lewison, Angee N. Doerr, Crow White, Aaron W.E. Galloway, Corey Garza, Elliott L. Hazen, Jacqueline Padilla-Gamino, Jameal F. Samhouri, Ana Spalding, Adrian Stier, and J. Wilson White Conservation Letters

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) bones from a 5850 year old shell midden on San Miguel Island, California, USA Erlandson, Jon M., Robert L. DeLong, and Kelly M. Robertson The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Incorporating animal movement into distance sampling Glennie, R., S.T. Buckland, R. Langrock, T. Gerrodette, L.T. Ballance, S.J. Chivers, and M.D. Scott Journal of the American Statistical Association

Vaquitas (Phocoena sinus) continue to die from bycatch not pollutants Gulland, Frances, Kerri Danil, Jennie Bolton, Gina Ylitalo, Roberto Sanchez Okrucky, Francisco Rebolledo, Christian Alexander-Beloch, Robert L. Brownell, Sarah Mesnick, Kathi Lefebvre, Cynthia R. Smith, Peter Owen Thomas, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Veterinary Record

Assessing the potential for spectrally based remote sensing of salmon spawning locations Harrison, Lee R., Carl J. Legleiter, Brandon T. Overstreet, Tom W. Bell, and John Hannon River Research and Applications

Movements, diving behaviour and diet of type-C killer whales (Orcinus orca) in the Ross Sea, Antarctica Lauriano, Giancarlo, Enrico Pirotta, Trevor Joyce, Robert L. Pitman, Asuncion Borrell, and Simone Panigada Aquatic Conservation

Building genomic infrastructure: Sequencing platinum-standard reference-quality genomes of all cetacean species Morin, Phillip A., Alana Alexander, Mark Blaxter, Susana Caballero, Olivier Fedrigo, Michael C. Fontaine, Andrew D. Foote, Shigehiro Kuraku, Brigid Maloney, Morgan L. McCarthy, Michael R. McGowen, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Mariana F. Nery, Morten Tange Olsen, Patricia E. Rosel, and Erich D. Jarvis Marine Mammal Science

Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the high seas Ortuno Crespo, Guillermo, Joanna Mossop, Daniel Dunn, Kristina Gjerde, Elliott Hazen, Gabriel Reygondeau, Robin Warner, Derek Tittensor, and Patrick Halpin Marine Policy

Plasma biochemistry profiles of juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) from the Bahamas with a potential influence of diet Putillo, Alexa R., Mark Flint, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Robert G.M. Spencer, and M.P.B. Fuentes Mariana Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Climate-driven variability in Euphausia pacifica size distributions off northern California Robertson, Roxanne R., and Eric P. Bjorkstedt Progress in Oceanography

Demographic history shaped geographical patterns of deleterious mutation load in a broadly distributed Pacific Salmon Rougemont, Quentin, Jean-Sebastien Moore, Thibault Leroy, Eric Normandeau, Eric B. Rondeau, Ruth E. Withler, Donald M. Van Doornik, Penelope A. Crane, Kerry A. Naish, John Carlos Garza, Terry D. Beacham, Ben F. Koop, and Louis Bernatchez PLoS Genetics 16(8):e1008348

Movements of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Gulf of California: integrating satellite telemetry and remotely sensed environmental variables Sandoval-Lugo, Alejandra G., T. Leticia Espinosa-Carreon, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Catherine E. Hart, Cesar P. Ley-Quinonez, A. Alonso Aguirre, T. Todd Jones, and Alan A. Zavala-Norzagaray Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Geographic structuring of Antarctic penguin populations Santora, Jarrod A., Michelle LaRue, and David Ainley Global Ecology and Biogeography

Measuring health conditions and behaviors in fishing industry participants and fishing communities using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) Speir, Cameron, Corey Ridings, Jennifer Marcum, Mike Drexler, and Karma Norman ICES Journal of Marine Science

Field surveying or marine recreational fisheries in Norway using a novel spatial sampling frame reveals striking under-coverage of alternative sampling frames Volstad, Jon Helge, Mary Christman, Keno Ferter, Alf Ring Kleiven, Hakon Ottera, Oystein Aas, Robert Arlinghaus, Trude Borch, Jonathan Colman, Bruce Hartill Thrond O Haugen, Kieran Hyder, Jeremy M. Lyle, Martin Junker Ohldieck, Christian Skov, Harry V. Strehlow, Dave van Voorhees, Marc Simon Weltersbach, and Edward D. Weber ICES Journal of Marine Science

Addressing marine and coastal governance conflicts at the interface of multiple sectors and jurisdictions Bellanger, Manuel, Cameron Speir, Fabian Blanchard, Kate Brooks, James R. Butler, Scott Crosson, Robert Fonner, Sophie Gourguet, Daniel S. Holland, Sakari Kuikka, Bertrand Le Gallic, Rebecca Lent, Gary D. Libecap, Douglas W. Lipton, Prateep K. Nayak, David Reid, Pierre Scemama, Robert Stephenson, Olivier Thebaud, and Juliette Young Frontiers in Marine Science

Evolutionary history of the porpoises (Phocoenidae) across the speciation continuum: a mitogenome phylogeographic perspective Chehida, Y.B., J. Thumloup, C. Schumacher, T. Harkins, A. Aguilar, A. Borrell, M. Ferreira, L. Rojas-Bracho, K.M. Robertson, B.L. Taylor, G.A. Vikingsson, A. Weyna, J. Romiguier, P.A. Morin, and M.C. Fontaine Scientific Reports

Planning for success: leveraging two ecosystem models to support planning of an Antarctic marine protected area Dahood, Adrian, Emily S. Klein, and George M. Watters Marine Policy

Evaluating Antarctic marine protected area scenarios using a dynamic food-web model Dahood, Adrian, Kim de Mutsert, and George Watters Biological Conservation

Fast behavioral feedbacks make ecosystems sensitive to pace and not just magnitude of anthropogenic environmental change Gil, Michael, Stephan Munch, Marissa Baskett, and Andrew Hein Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Publishing and peer reviewing as indicators of the impact of COVID-19 on the productivity of the marine science community Hobday, Alistair J., Howard I. Browman, and Steven J. Bograd ICES Journal of Marine Research

Comparing feedback and spatial approaches to advance ecosystem-based fisheries management in a changing Antarctic Klein, Emily, and George Watters PLoS ONE

Disease in Central Valley salmon: status and lessons from other systems Lehman, Brendan M., Rachel C. Johnson, Mark Adkison, Oliver T. Burgess, Richard E. Connon, Nann A. Fangue, Scott J. Foott, Sascha L. Hallett, Beatriz Martinez-Lopez, Kristina M. Miller, Maureen K. Purcell, Nicholas A. Som, Pablo Valdes-Donoso, and Alison L. Collins San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science

Nitrogen isotope fractionation of amino acids from a controlled study on the Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas): Expanding beyond Glx/Phe for trophic position Lemons, Garrett E., Rebecca L. Lewison, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Christina M. Coppenrath, and Brian N. Popp Marine Biology

Potential for ecological nonlinearities and thresholds to inform Pacific salmon management Munsch, Stuart H., Kelly S. Andrews, Lisa G. Crozier, Robert Fonner, Jennifer L. Gosselin, Correigh M. Greene, Chris J. Harvey, Jessica I. Lundin, Jameal F. Samhouri, and William H. Satterthwaite Ecosphere

Using Antarctic blue whale photo ID data from IDCR/SOWER: capture-recapture estimates of abundance Olson, P.A., and D. Kinzey Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Special Issue

Robustness of Potential Biological Removal (PBR) to monitoring, environmental and management uncertainties Punt, Andre, Margaret Siple, Tessa B. Francis, Philip S. Hammond, Dennis Heinemann, Kristy J. Long, Jeffrey E. Moore, Maritza Sepulveda, Randall R. Reeves, Gudjon Mar Sigurdsson, Gisli Vikingsson, Paul R. Wade, Rob Williams, and Alexandre N. Zerbini ICES Journal of Marine Science

Effects of sphere suspension on echosounder calibrations Renfree, Josiah S., Lars N. Andersen, Gavin Macaulay, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science

Passive acoustic survey of deep-diving odontocetes in the California Current Ecosystem 2018: Final report Simonis, Anne E., Jennifer S. Trickey, Jay Barlow, Shannon Rankin, Jorge Urban, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, and Jeffrey E. Moore U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-630. 46 p.

Geographic distribution of commercial fishing landings and port consolidation following ITQ implementation Speir, Cameron, and Min-Yang Lee Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

A complex phenotype in salmon controlled by a simple change in migratory timing Thompson, Neil F., Eric C. Anderson, Anthony J. Clemento, Matthew A. Campbell, Devon E. Pearse, James W. Hearsey, Andrew P. Kinziger, and John Carlos Garza Science

Community engagement: An integral component of a multifaceted conservation approach for the transboundary Western Pacific leatherback Tiwari, Manjula, Fitryanti Pakiding, Kartika Zohar, Jonathan Allo, Sinus Keroman, Deasy Lontoh, and Peter H. Dutton Frontiers in Marine Science

Models with environmental drivers offer a plausible mechanism for the rapid spread of infectious disease outbreaks in marine organisms Aalto, E.A., K.D. Lafferty, S.H. Sokolow, R.E. Grewelle, T. Ben-Horin, C.A. Boch, P.T. Raimondi, S.J. Bograd, E.L. Hazen, M.G. Jacox, F. Micheli, and G.A. De Leo Scienctific Reports 10:5975 (10 p.)

Factors affecting detection probability and range of transmitters and receivers designed for the Juvenile Salmon Acoustic Telemetry System Ammann, Arnold J. Environmental Biology of Fishes 103:625-634

Antarctic demersal finfish around the Elephant and the South Orkney islands: distribution, abundance and biological characteristics Arana, Patricio M., Christopher D. Jones, Nicolas A. Alegria, Roberto Sarralde, and Renzo Rolleri Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 48(2):304-322

Quantifying spatial and temporal variation of North Pacific fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) acoustic behavior Archer, Frederick I., Shannon Rankin, Kathleen M. Stafford, Manuel Castellote, and Julien Delarue Marine Mammal Science 36(1):224-245

A mitigation hierarchy approach for managing sea turtle captures in small-scale fisheries Arlidge, William N.S., Dale Squires, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Hollie Booth, Jeffrey C. Mangel, and E.J. Milner-Gulland Frontiers in Marine Science 7:49 (26 p.)

Pregnancy rate and biomarker validations from the blubber of eastern North Pacific blue whales Atkinson, Shannon, Diane Gendron, Trevor A. Branch, Kendall L. Mashburn, Valentina Melica, Luis E. Enriquez-Paredes, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Marine Mammal Science 36(1):6-28

Regional comparison of leatherback sea turtle maturation attributes and reproductive longevity Avens, Larisa, Lisa R. Goshe, George R. Zug, George H. Balazs, Scott R. Benson, and Heather Harris Marine Biology 167:4 (12 p.)

Morphological variation in leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) hatchlings at Sandy Point National Wildlife Refuge, US Virgin Islands Banerjee, Shreya M., Amy Frey, Carolyn M. Kurle, Justin R. Perrault, and Kelly R. Stewart Endangered Species Research 41:361-372

Single nucleotide polymorphism markers for genotyping hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) Banerjee, Shreya M., Lisa M. Komoroske, Amy Frey, Brittany Hancock-Hanser, Phillip A. Morin, Frederick I. Archer, Suzanne Roden, Alexander Gaos, Michael J. Liles, and Peter H. Dutton Conservation Genetics Resources 12(3):353-356

Variation in dive behavior of Cuvier's beaked whales with seafloor depth, time-of-day, and lunar illumination Barlow, Jay, Gregory S. Schorr, Erin A. Falcone, and David Moretti Marine Ecology Progress Series 644:199-214

Persistent organic pollutants in green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) inhabiting two urbanized Southern California habitats Barraza, Arthur D., Lisa M. Komoroske, Camryn D. Allen, Tomoharu Eguchi, Rich Gossett, Erika Holland, Daniel D. Lawson, Robin A. LeRoux, Varenka Lorenzi, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Christopher G. Lowe Marine Pollution Bulletin 153:110979 (11 p.)

Performance evaluation of cetacean species distribution models developed using generalized additive models and boosted regression trees Becker, Elizabeth A., James V. Carretta, Karin A. Forney, Jay Barlow, Stephanie Brodie, Ryan Hoopes, Michael G. Jacox, Sara M. Maxwell, Jessica V. Redfern, Nicholas B. Sisson, Heather Welch, and Elliott L. Hazen Ecology and Evolution 10(12):5759-5784

Twenty-eight years of decline: Nesting population demographics and trajectory of the north-east Queensland endangered hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) Bell, I.P., J.J. Meager, T. Eguchi, K.A. Dobbs, J.D. Miller, and C.A. Madden Hof Biological Conservation 241:108376 (10 p.)

Genetic identification of blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) and deacon rockfish (S. diaconus) to enable life history analyses for stock assessment Bizzarro, Joseph J., Elizabeth A. Gilbert-Horvath, E.J. Dick, Aaron M. Berger, Katherine T. Schmidt, Don Pearson, Christine Petersen, Lisa A. Kautzi, Rebecca R. Miller, John C. Field, and John Carlos Garza Fishery Bulletin 118(1):37-50

The mitigation hierarchy for sharks: A risk-based framework for reconciling trade-offs between shark conservation and fisheries objectives Booth, Hollie, Dale Squires, and Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland Fish and Fisheries 21(2):269-289

Abundance estimates of false killer whales in Hawaiian waters and the broader central Pacific Bradford, Amanda L., Elizabeth A. Becker, Erin M. Oleson, Karin A. Forney, Jeff E. Moore, and Jay Barlow U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-104. 70 p.

Trade-offs in covariate selection for species distribution models: a methodological comparison Brodie, Stephanie, James T. Thorson, Gemma Carroll, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven Bograd, Melissa A. Haltuch, Kirstin K. Holsman, Stan Kotwicki, Jameal F. Samhouri, Ellen Willis-Norton, and Rebecca L. Selden Ecography 43(1):11-24

John Leonard Bannister 1937-2018 [obituary] Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Doug S. Butterworth, Catherine M. Kemper, Martin Cawthorn, Michael Double, Greg P. Donovan, Ray Gambell, and Hidehiro Kato Marine Mammal Science 36(3):1074-1077

Poleward proliferation of an inshore squid [abstract] Burford, B., L. Wild, R. Schwarz, M. Kosma, E. Chenoweth, A. Sreenivasan, W. Gilly, R. Heintz, J. Field, H.J. Hoving, J. Straley, and M. Denny Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(supp.1):E26

Distribution of the acoustic occurrence of dolphins during the summers 2011 to 2015 in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico Cardenas Hinojosa, Gustavo, Horacio de la Cueva, Tim Gerrodette, and Armando M. Jaramillo-Legorreta PeerJ 8:e9121 (25 p.)

Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California large-mesh drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2018 Carretta, James V. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-632. 80 p.

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific west coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2014-2018 Carretta, James V., Blair Delean, Van Helker, Marcia M. Muto, Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Dan Lawson, Justin Viezbicke, and Jason Jannot U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-631. 147 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2019 Carretta, James V., Karin A. Forney, Erin M. Oleson, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Jason Baker, Marcia M. Muto, Brad Hanson, Anthony J. Orr, Harriet Huber, Mark S. Lowry, Jay Barlow, Jeffrey E. Moore, Deanna Lynch, Lilian Carswell, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-629. 380 p.

Population comparison of right whale body condition reveals poor state of the North Atlantic right whale Christiansen, Fredrik, Stephen M. Dawson, John W. Durban, Holly Fearnbach, Carolyn A. Miller, Lars Bejder, Marcela Uhart, Mariano Sironi, Peter Corkeron, William Rayment, Eva Leunissen, Eashani Haria, Rhianne Ward, Hunter A. Warick, Iain Kerr, Morgan S. Lynn, Heather M. Pettis, and Michael J. Moore Marine Ecology Progress Series 640:1-16

ObsCovgTools: Assessing observer coverage needed to document and estimate rare event bycatch Curtis, K. Alexandra, and James V. Carretta Fisheries Research 225:105493 (8 p.)

The drivers of river temperatures below a large dam Daniels, Miles E., and Eric M. Danner Water Resources Research 56(5):e2019WR026751 (15 p.)

Reported vessel strike as a source of mortality of White Sturgeon in San Francisco Bay Demetras, Nicholas J., Brennan A. Helwig, and Alexander S. McHuron California Fish and Wildlife 106(1):59-65

Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of emergent migratory behavior using individual-based models Dodson, Stephanie, Briana Abrahms, Steven J. Bograd, Jerome Fiechter, and Elliott L. Hazen Ecological Modelling 432:109225 (11 p.)

Postrelease survival of green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) encountered as bycatch in the trawl fishery that targets California halibut (Paralichthys californicus), estimated by using pop-up satellite archival tags Doukakis, Phaedra, Ethan A. Mora, Susan Wang, Paul Reilly, Russ Bellmer, Kristine Lesyna, Travis Tanaka, Natnael Hamda, Mary L. Moser, Daniel L. Erickson, Jason Vestre, Jon McVeigh, Kevin Stockmann, Kristen Duncan, and Steven T. Lindley Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 118(1):63-73

Quantifying local ecological knowledge to model historical abundance of long-lived, heavily-exploited fauna Early-Capistran, Michelle-Maria, Elena Solana-Arellano, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Nemer E. Narchi, Gerardo Garibay-Melo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Volker Koch, and Andrea Saenz-Arroyo PeerJ 8:e9494 (34 p.)

Effects of a power plant closure on home ranges of green turtles in an urban foraging area Eguchi, Tomoharu, Jessica Bredvik, Suzanne Graham, Robin LeRoux, Brendan Saunders, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Endangered Species Research 41:265-277

Evaluating the power of photogrammetry for monitoring killer whale body condition Fearnbach, Holly, John W. Durban, Lance G. Barrett-Lennard, David K. Ellifrit, and Kenneth C. Balcomb III Marine Mammal Science 36(1):359-364

Cryptic lives of conspicuous animals: Otolith chemistry chronicles life histories of coastal lagoon fishes Feyrer, Frederick, Matthew Young, Darren Fong, Karin Limburg, and Rachel Johnson Frontiers in Marine Science 7:417 (9 p.)

Krill hotspot formation and phenology in the California Current Ecosystem Fiechter, Jerome, Jarrod A. Santora, Francisco Chavez, Devon Northcott, and Monique Messie Geophysical Research Letters 47(13):e2020GL088039 (10 p.)

Detections of whale vocalizations by simultaneously deployed bottom-moored and deep-water mobile autonomous hydrophones Fregosi, Selene, Danielle V. Harris, Haruyoshi Matsumoto, David K. Mellinger, Jay Barlow, Simone Baumann-Pickering, and Holger Klinck Frontiers in Marine Science7:721 (18 p.)

The advantages of diving deep: Fin whales quadruple their energy intake when targeting deep krill patches Friedlaender, Ari S., Matthew T. Bowers, David Cade, Elliott L. Hazen, Alison K. Stimpert, Ann N. Allen, John Calambokidis, James Fahlbusch, Paolo Segre, Fleur Visser, Brandon L. Southall, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen Functional Ecology 34(2):497-506

Towards a global understanding of the drivers of marine and terrestrial biodiversity Gagne, Tyler O., Gabriel Reygondeau, Clinton N. Jenkins, Joseph O. Sexton, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, and Kyle S. Van Houtan PLoS ONE 15(2):e0228065 (17 p.)

Blubber steroid hormone profiles as indicators of physiological state in free-ranging common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Galligan, Thomas M., Ashley S.P. Boggs, Brian C. Balmer, Teri Rowles, Cynthia R. Smith, Forrest Townsend, Randall S. Wells, Nicholas M. Kellar, Eric S. Zolman, and Lori H. Schwacke Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 239:110583 (11 p.)

Characterizing deepwater oxygen variability and seafloor community responses using a novel autonomous lander Gallo, Natalya D., Kevin Hardy, Nicholas C. Wegner, Ashley Nicoll, Haleigh Yang, and Lisa A. Levin Biogeosciences 17(14):3943-3960

Hawaiian hawksbills: a distinct and isolated nesting colony in the Central North Pacific Ocean revealed by mitochondrial DNA Gaos, Alexander R., Erin L. LaCasella, Lauren Kurpita, George Balazs, Stacy Hargrove, Cheryl King, Hannah Bernard, T. Todd Jones, and Peter H. Dutton Conservation Genetics 21(4):771-783

Circularity in fisheries data weakens real world prediction Giron-Nava, Alfredo, Stephan B. Munch, Andrew F. Johnson, Ethan Deyle, Chase C. James, Erik Saberski, Gerald M. Pao, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, George Sugihara Scientific Reports 10:6977 (6 p.)

Detection and classification of narrow-band high frequency echolocation clicks from drifting recorders Griffiths, Emily T., Frederick Archer, Shannon Rankin, Jennifer L. Keating, Eric Keen, Jay Barlow, and Jeffrey E. Moore Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(5):3511-3522

Blooms of a key grazer in the Southern Ocean — An individual-based model of Salpa thompsoni Groeneveld, Jurgen, Uta Berger, Natasha Henschke, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Christian S. Reiss, and Bettina Meyer Progress in Oceanography 185:102339 (10 p.)

Spatio-temporal analyses of marine predator diets from data-rich and data-limited systems Gruss, Arnaud, James T. Thorson, Gemma Carroll, Elizabeth L. Ng, Kirstin K. Holsman, Kerim Aydin, Stan Kotwicki, Hem N. Morzaria-Luna, Cameron H. Ainsworth, and Kevin A. Thompson Fish and Fisheries 21(4):718-739

Metabolic measurements and parameter estimations for bioenergetics modelling of Pacific Chub Mackerel Scomber japonicus Guo, Chenying, Shin-ichi Ito, Nicholas C. Wegner, Laura N. Frank, Emmanis Forval, Kathryn A. Dickson, and Dane H. Klinger Fisheries Oceanography 29(3):215-226

Oceanographic drivers of petrale sole recruitment in the California Current Ecosystem Haltuch, Melissa A., Nick Tolimieri, Qi Lee, and Michael G. Jacox Fisheries Oceanography 29(2):122-136

Finding crush: Environmental DNA analysis as a tool for tracking the green sea turtle Chelonia mydas in a marine estuary Harper, Kirsten J., Kelly D. Goodwin, Lynsey R. Harper, Erin L. LaCasella, Amy Frey, and Peter H. Dutton Frontiers in Marine Science 6:810 (13 p.)

Information limitation and the dynamics of coupled ecological systems Hein, Andrew M., and Benjamin T. Martin Nature Ecology and Evolution 4(1):82-90

An algorithmic approach to natural behavior Hein, Andrew M., Douglas L. Altshuler, David E. Cade, James C. Liao, Benjamin T. Martin, and Graham K. Taylor Current Biology 30(11):R663-R675

Reference points for predators will progress ecosystem-based management of fisheries Hill, Simeon L., Jefferson Hinke, Sophie Bertrand, Lowell Fritz, Robert W. Furness, James N. Ianelli, Matthew Murphy, Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos, Lorien Pichegru, Rowland Sharp, Richard A. Stillman, Peter J. Wright, and Norman Ratcliffe Fish and Fisheries 21(2):368-378

Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems Hindell, Mark A., Ryan R. Reisinger, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Luis A. Huckstadt, Philip N. Trathan, Horst Bornemann, Jean-Benoit Charrassin, Steven L. Chown, Daniel P. Costa, Bruno Danis, Mary-Anne Lea, David Thompson, Leigh G. Torres, Anton P. Van de Putte, Rachael Alderman, Virginia Andrews-Goff, Ben Arthur, Grant Ballard, John Bengtson, Marthan N. Bester, Arnoldus Schytte Blix, Lars Boehme, Charles-Andre Bost, Peter Boveng, Jaimie Cleeland, Rochelle Constantine, Stuart Corney, Robert J.M. Crawford, Luciano Dalla Rosa, P.J. Nico de Bruyn, Karine Delord, Sebastien Descamps, Mike Double, Louise Emmerson, Mike Fedak, Ari Friedlaender, Nick Gales, Michael E. Goebel, Kimberly T. Goetz, Christophe Guinet, Simon D. Goldsworthy, Rob Harcourt, Jefferson T. Hinke, Kerstin Jerosch, Akiko Kato, Knowles R. Kerry, Roger Kirkwood, Gerald L. Kooyman, Kit M. Kovacs, Kiernan Lawton, Andrew D. Lowther, Christian Lydersen, Phil O'B. Lyver, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Maria E.I. Marquez, Birgitte I. McDonald, Clive R. McMahon, Monica Muelbert, Dominik Nachtsheim, Keith W. Nicholls, Erling S. Nordoy, Silvia Olmastroni, Richard A. Phillips, Pierre Pistorius, Joachim Plotz, Klemens Putz, Norman Ratcliffe, Peter G. Ryan, Mercedes Santos, Colin Southwell, Iain Staniland, Akinori Takahashi, Arnaud Tarroux, Wayne Trivelpiece, Ewan Wakefield, Henri Weimerskirch, Barbara Wienecke, Jose C. Xavier, Simon Wotherspooon, Ian D. Jonsen, and Ben Raymond Nature 580(7801):87-92

Population survey showing hope for population recovery of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise Huang, Jie, Zhigang Mei, Mao Chen, Yi Han, Xinqiao Zhang, Jeffrey E. Moore, Xiujiang Zhao, Yujiang Hao, Kexiong Wang, and Ding Wang Biological Conservation 241:108315 (9 p.)

In qualified praise of Captain F.D. Maxwell: A precis of Maxwell's 1904 report on the Turtle-Banks of the Irrawaddy Division of Burma (Myanmar) Hykle, Douglas, Maung Maung Lwin, Manjula Tiwari, and David Wm. Owens Herpetological Conservation and Biology 15(2):478-497

Habitat modeling of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in the eastern Gulf of Thailand Jackson-Ricketts, Justine, Chalatip Junchompoo, Ellen M. Hines, Elliott L. Hazen, Louisa S. Ponnampalam, Anoukchika Ilangakoon, and Somchai Monanunsap Ecology and Evolution 10(6):2778-2792

Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of North American coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments Jacox, Michael G., Michael A. Alexander, Samantha Siedlecki, Ke Chen, Young-Oh Kwon, Stephanie Brodie, Ivonne Ortiz, Desiree Tommasi, Matthew J. Widlansky, Daniel Barrie, Antonietta Capotondi, Wei Cheng, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Christopher Edwards, Jerome Fiechter, Paula Fratantoni, Elliott L. Hazen, Albert J. Hermann, Arun Kumar, Arthur J. Miller, Douglas Pirhalla, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Sulagna Ray, Scott C. Sheridan, Aneesh Subramanian, Philip Thompson, Lesley Thorne, Hariharasubramanian Annamalai, Kerim Aydin, Steven J. Bograd, Roger B. Griffis, Kelly Kearney, Hyemi Kim, Annarita Mariotti, Mark Merrifield, and Ryan Rykaczewski Progress in Oceanography 183:102307 (23 p.)

Thermal displacement by marine heatwaves Jacox, Michael G., Michael A. Alexander, Steven J. Bograd, and James D. Scott Nature 584(7819):82-86

Mobility and its sensitivity to fitness differences determine consumer-resource distributions Jiao, Jing, Louise Riotte-Lambert, Sergei S. Pilyugin, Michael A. Gil, and Craig W. Osenberg Royal Society Open Science 7:200247 (11 p.)

Lifetime chronicles of selenium exposure linked to deformities in an imperiled migratory fish Johnson, Rachel Cathleen, A. Robin Stewart, Karin E. Limburg, Rong Huang, Dennis Cocherell, and Frederick Feyrer Environmental Science and Technology 54(5):2892-2901

Behavioral responses of satellite tracked Blainville's beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) to mid-frequency active sonar Joyce, Trevor W., John W. Durban, Diane E. Claridge, Charlotte A. Dunn, Leigh S. Hickmott, Holly Fearnbach, Karin Dolan, and David Moretti Marine Mammal Science 36(1):29-46

Estimating abundance of Risso's dolphins using a hierarchical Bayesian habitat model: A framework for monitoring stocks of animals inhabiting a dynamic ocean environment Kanaji, Yu, and Tim Gerrodette Deep Sea Research II 175:104699

Common thresher shark Alopias vulpinus movement: Bayesian inference on a data-limited species Kinney, Michael J., Dovi Kacev, Tim Sippel, Heidi Dewar, and Tomaharu Eguchi Marine Ecology Progress Series 639:155-167

What's the catch? Profiling the benefits and costs associated with marine protected areas and displaced fishing in the Scotia Sea Klein, Emily S, and George M. Watters PLOS ONE 15(8):e0237425 (24 p.)

Variability in age of a Southern Ocean myctophid (Gymnoscopelus nicholsi) derived from scat-recovered otoliths Klemmedson, Angela D., Christian S. Reiss, Michael E. Goebel, Ronald S. Kaufmann, Emmanis Dorval, Tomasz B. Linkowski, and Renato Borras-Chavez Marine Ecology Progress Series 633:55-69

Leopard seal diets in a rapidly warming polar region vary by year, season, sex, and body size Krause, Douglas J., Michael E. Goebel, and Carolyn M. Kurle BMC Ecology 20:32 (15 p.)

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