NOAA FISHERIES

The urban lives of green sea turtles: Insights in behavior in an industrialized habitat using an animal-borne camera Mullaney, Cameron M., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Garrett E. Lemons, Bryant Chesney, and Andrew S. Maurer Ecology and Evolution 14(4):e11282 (7 p.)

Empirical dynamic programming for model-free ecosystem-based management Munch, Stephan B., and Antoine Brias Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(4):769-778

Biological status of Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California coastal Chinook salmon: Report of the Status Review Team NOAA Fisheries Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Status Review Team U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-189. 150 p.

Environmental drivers of biogeography and community structure in a Mid-Atlantic estuary Oleynik, Haley A., Joseph J. Bizzarro, Edward A. Hale, and Aaron B. Carlisle Oecologia 204(3):543-557

Using Antarctic blue whale photo-ID data from the SOWER cruises: Capture-recapture estimates of abundance Olson, Paula A., and Douglas Kinzey Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Special Issue 4:13-20

Future climate-induced distribution shifts in a sexually dimorphic key predator of the Southern Ocean Ouled-Cheikh, Jazel, David March, Renato Borras-Chavez, Massimiliano Drago, Michael E. Goebel, Jose M. Farina, Manel Gazo, Marta Coll, and Luis Cardona Global Change Biology 30(3):e17191 (17 p.)

Review of 2023 ocean salmon fisheries (amended): Stock assessment and fishery evaluation document for the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 354 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 131 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 73 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 59 p.

Demographic and physiological signals of reproductive events in humpback whales on a southwest Pacific breeding ground Pallin, Logan J., Claire Garrigue, Nicholas M. Kellar, C. Scott Baker, Claire D. Bonneville, Solene Derville, Ellen C. Garland, Debbie Steel, and Ari S. Friedlaender Conservation Physiology 12(1):coae038 (17 p.)

Detection of Leptospira kirschneri in a short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis delphis) stranded off the coast of southern California, USA Prager, K.C., Kerri Danil, Elyse Wurster, Kathleen M. Colegrove, Renee Galloway, Niesa Kettler, Rinosh Mani, Ryelan F. McDonough, Jason W. Sahl, Nathan E. Stone, David M. Wagner, and James O. Lloyd-Smith BMC Veterinary Research 20:266 (11 p.)

Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses Rankin, Shannon, Taiki Sakai, Frederick I. Archer, Jay Barlow, Danielle Cholewiak, Annamaria I. DeAngelis, Jennifer L.K. McCullough, Erin M. Oleson, Anne E. Simonis, Melissa S. Soldevilla, and Jennifer S. Trickey Ecological Informatics 80:102511 (8 p.)

Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) post-mortem findings from December 2018 through 2021 during the Unusual Mortality Event in the Eastern North Pacific Raverty, Stephen, Padraig Duignan, Denise Greig, Jessica L. Huggins, Kathy Burek Huntington, Michael Garner, John Calambokidis, Paul Cottrell, Kerri Danil, Dalin D'Alessandro, Deborah Duffield, Moe Flannery, Frances M.D. Gulland, Barbie Halaska, Dyanna M. Lambourn, Taylor Lehnhart, Jorge Urban R., Teri Rowles, James Rice, Kate Savage, Kristin Wilkinson, Justin Greenman, Justin Viezbicke, Brendan Cottrell, P. Dawn Goley, Maggie Martinez, and Deborah Fauquier PLoS ONE 19(3):e0295861 (25 p.)

Report on the Summer 2023 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (2307RL), 17 July to 3 November 2023, conducted aboard NOAA Ships Reuben Lasker and Bell M. Shimada, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and three uncrewed surface vessels Renfree, Josiah S., Alice Beittel, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, Lanora Vasquez, William Watson, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-702. 53 p.

Relative sarcolipin (SLN) and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA1) transcript levels in closely related endothermic and ectothermic scombrid fishes: Implications for molecular basis of futile calcium cycle non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) Robinson, Sean, Nicholas C. Wegner, Chugey A. Sepulveda, and Jens P.C. Franck Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 295:111667 (7 p.)

Evaluating top-down, bottom-up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Rogers, Tanya L., Samuel M. Bashevkin, Christina E. Burdi, Denise D. Colombano, Peter N. Dudley, Brian Mahardja, Lara Mitchell, Sarah Perry, and Parsa Saffarinia Ecology 105(4):e4274 (15 p.)

Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems Rose, Kenneth A., Kirstin Holsman, Janet A. Nye, Emily H. Markowitz, Thomas N.S. Banha, Nina Bednarsek, Juan Bueno-Pardo, David Deslauriers, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Klaus B. Huebert, Martin Huret, Shin-ichi Ito, Stefan Koenigstein, Lingbo Li, Hassan Moustahfid, Barbara A. Muhling, Philipp Neubauer, Jose Ricardo Paula, Elizabeth C. Siddon, Morten D. Skogen, Paul D. Spencer, P. Daniel van Denderen, Gro I. van der Meeren, and Myron A. Peck Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:193-221

Development of methods for collecting spectral data from Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy to age three small coastal pelagic species (Pacific Sardine, Pacific Mackerel, Northern Anchovy) in the northeast Pacific Ocean Saas, Emma, Emmanis Dorval, Dianna L. Porzio, and Brittany D. Schwartzkopf U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-694. 47 p.

Beyond boundaries: governance considerations for climate-driven habitat shifts of highly migratory marine species across jurisdictions Santos, Bianca S., Elliott L. Hazen, Heather Welch, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Barbara A. Block, Daniel P. Costa, Scott A. Shaffer, and Larry B. Crowder npj Ocean Sustainability 3:22 (8 p.)

An expert-based system to predict population survival rate from health data Schwacke, Lori H., Len Thomas, Randall S. Wells, Teresa K. Rowles, Gregory D. Bossart, Forrest Townsend Jr., Marilyn Mazzoil, Jason B. Allen, Brian C. Balmer, Aaron A. Barleycorn, Ashley Barratclough, Louise Burt, Sylvain De Guise, Deborah Fauquier, Forrest M. Gomez, Nicholas M. Kellar, John H. Schwacke, Todd R. Speakman, Eric D. Stolen, Brian M. Quigley, Eric S. Zolman, and Cynthia R. Smith Conservation Biology 38(1):e14073 (13 p.)

Update on the status of gray whales since the 2020 Implementation Review Scordino, Jonathan J., John W. Bickham, John R. Brandon, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Alexander Burdin, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Tomoharu Eguchi, Geof H. Givens, Aimee R. Lang, Dennis I. Litovka, Gen Nakamura, Andre E. Punt, Joshua D. Stewart, Jorge Urban R., and David W. Weller Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 25:1-18

Comparison of environmental DNA and underwater visual count surveys for detecting juvenile Coho Salmon in small rivers Shaffer, Jason T., Andrew P. Kinziger, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, and Andre Buchheister North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):449-462

Spirochaete genome identified in red abalone sample represents a novel genus Candidatus Haliotispira gen. nov. within the order Spirochaetales Sharma, Sharu Paul, Catherine M. Purcell, John R. Hyde, and Andrew J. Severin International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 74:006198 (8 p.)

Identifying spatial movements and residency of pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) using satellite and passive acoustic telemetry to inform local conservation in central Indonesia Shidqi, Rafid A., Mark V. Erdmann, Edy Setyawan, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Dewi R. Sari, Abraham B. Sianipar, Joshua D. Stewart, and Donald A. Croll Frontiers in Fish Science 2:1391062 (16 p.)

Organismal responses to deteriorating water quality during the historic 2020 red tide off Southern California Skelton, Zachary R., Lillian R. McCormick, Garfield T. Kwan, Joshua Lonthair, Carlos Neira, Samantha M. Clements, Todd R. Martz, Philip J. Bresnahan, Uwe Send, Sarah N. Giddings, Jeffrey C. Sevadjian, Stephanie Jaeger, Adriano Feit, Benjamin W. Frable, Phillip J. Zerofski, Melissa Torres, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Justin McCullough, Melissa L. Carter, Eva Ternon, Luke P. Miller, Gabriella M. Kalbach, Duncan C. Wheeler, P. Ed Parnell, Katherine M. Swiney, Garrett Seibert, Jeremiah J. Minich, John R. Hyde, Philip A. Hastings, Jennifer E. Smith, Lisa M. Komoroske, Martin Tresguerres, Lisa A. Levin, and Nicholas C. Wegner Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12(1):00067 (27 p.)

Observations of skin color aberrations in four shark species off the coast of southern California, USA Skelton, Zachary R., Tanya S. Prinzing, Andrew P. Nosal, Zoey Vagner, Peter Demman, Phil J. Zerofski, and Nicholas C. Wegner Environmental Biology of Fishes 107(3):391-400

Insights into vertebral band pair deposition rate in the juvenile common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Spear, Luka N., Suzanne Kohin, John A. Mohan, and R.J. David Wells Journal of Fish Biology 104(1):104-112

Factors impacting the timing of reproductive development in female Antarctic krill at the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula Steinke, Kirsten B., Kim S. Bernard, Christian S. Reiss, Jennifer Walsh, Giancarlo M. Correa, and Sharon E. Stammerjohn Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1383175 (15 p.)

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2023 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-703. 87 p.

Micrometer-scale structure in shark vertebral centra Stock, S.R., U. Kierdorf, K.C. James, P.D. Shevchenko, L.J. Natanson, S. Gomez, and H. Kierdorf Acta Biomaterialia 177:300-315

Connecting thiamine availability to the microbial community composition in Chinook salmon spawning habitats of the Sacramento River basin Suffridge, Christopher P., Kelly C. Shannon, H. Matthews, R.C. Johnson, C. Jeffres, N. Mantua, A.E. Ward, E. Holmes, J. Kindopp, M. Aldoo, and F.S. Colwell Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(1):e01760-23 (26 p.)

State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Ninas Thompson, Andrew R., Rasmus Swalethorp, Michaela Alksne, Jarrod A. Santora, Elliott L. Hazen, Andrew Leising, Erin Satterthwaite, William J. Sydeman, Clarissa R. Anderson, Toby D. Auth, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Timothy Baumgardner, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Steven J. Bograd, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brian J. Burke, Elizabeth A. Daly, Heidi Dewar, John C. Field, Jennifer L. Fisher, Newell Garfield, Ashlyn Gidding, Ralf Goericke, Richard Golightly, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Jose Gomez-Valdes, John A. Hildebrand, Kym C. Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Jaime Jahncke, Michael Johns, Joshua M. Jones, Bertha Lavaniegos, Nate Mantua, Gerard J. McChesney, Megan E. Medina, Sharon R. Melin, Luis Erasmo Miranda, Cheryl A. Morgan, Catherine F. Nickels, Rachael A. Orben, Jessica M. Porquez, Antonella Preti, Roxanne R. Robertson, Daniel L. Rudnick, Keith M. Sakuma, Carley R. Schacter, Isaac D. Schroeder, Lauren Scopel, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Sarah Ann Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Katherine Whitaker, William Watson, Edward D. Weber, and Brian Wells Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1294011 (21 p.)

Size-selective predation effects on juvenile Chinook salmon cohort survival off Central California evaluated with an individual-based model Vasbinder, Kelly, Jerome Fiechter, Jarrod A. Santora, James J. Anderson, Nate Mantua, Steve T. Lindley, David D. Huff, and Brian K. Wells Fisheries Oceanography 33(1):e12654 (15 p.)

Integrating vertical and horizontal movements of shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in the easter North Pacific Ocean Vaudo, Jeremy J., Heidi Dewar, Michael E. Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:85-99

Trophic history of Hawaiian green turtles as revealed by stable isotope ratios (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) in the bones of museum specimens Velasquez-Vacca, Adriana, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, T. Todd Jones, George H. Balazs, and Luis Cardona Aquatic Conservation 34(1):e4063 (12 p.)

Perceived social benefits and drawbacks of sea turtle conservation efforts in a globally important sea turtle rookery Vieira, Sara, Victor Jimenez, Betania Ferreira-Airaud, Antunes Pina, Venceslau Soares, Manjula Tiwari, Maria A. Teodosio, Rita Castilho, and Ana Nuno Biodiversity and Conservation 33:1185-1205

Evolutionary history influences the microbiomes of a female symbiotic reproductive organ in cephalopods Vijayan, Nidhi, Sarah J. McAnulty, Gustavo Sanchez, Jeffrey Jolly, Yuzuru Ikeda, Michele K. Nishiguchi, Elodie Reveillac, Camino Gestal, Blake L. Spady, Diana H. Li, Benjamin P. Burford, Allison H. Kerwin, and Spencer V. Nyholm Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(3):e00990-23 (19 p.)

Bycatch mitigation from the sky: using helicopter communication for mobulid conservation in tropical tuna fisheries Waldo, Jennifer L., Ernesto Altamirano-Nieto, Donald A. Croll, Marta D. Palacios, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Jon Lopez, Gala Moreno, Stefany Rojas-Perea, and Melissa R. Cronin Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1303324 (10 p.)

Plasticity in gill morphology and function Wegner, Nicholas C., and Anthony P. Farrell In: Sarah L. Alderman and Todd E. Gillis (eds.), Encyclopedia of fish physiology (2nd ed.), vol. 1, p. 762-779. Academic Press.

Selection of planning unit size in dynamic management strategies to reduce human-wildlife conflict Welch, Heather, Owen R. Liu, Leena Riekkola, Briana Abrahms, Elliott L. Hazen, and Jameal F. Samhouri Conservation Biology 38(3):e14201 (12 p.)

Unseen overlap between fishing vessels and top predators in the northeast Pacific Welch, Heather, Tyler Clavelle, Timothy D. White, Megan A. Cimino, David Kroodsma, and Elliott L. Hazen Science Advances 10(10):eadl5528 (11 p.)

Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge Wheeler, Kathryn I., Michael C. Dietze, David LeBauer, Jody A. Peters, Andrew D. Richardson, Arun A. Ross, R. Quinn Thomas, Kai Zhu, Uttam Bhat, Stephan Munch, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Min Chen, Benjamin Goldstein, Jessica Guo, Dalei Hao, Chris Jones, Mira Kelly-Fair, Haoran Liu, Charlotte Malmborg, Naresh Neupane, Debasmita Pal, Vaughn Shirey, Yiluan Song, McKalee Steen, Eric A. Vance, Whitney M. Woelmer, Jacob H. Wynne, and Luke Zachmann Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 345:109810 (12 p.)

Forensic geochemistry identifies the illegal introduction of Walleye into Lake Cascade, Idaho Whitman, George, Jordan Messner, Rachel C. Johnson, Malte Willmes, Brian P. Kennedy, and Carson Jeffres North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):407-414

Variability in coastal habitat available for Longfin Smelt Spirinchus thaleichthys in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Young, Matthew J., Frederick V. Feyrer, Steven T. Lindley, and David D. Huff Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1282286 (13 p.)

Accurate species classification of Arctic toothed whale echolocation clicks using one-third octave ratios Zahn, Marie J., Michael Ladegaard, Malene Simon, Kathleen M. Stafford, Taiki Sakai, and Kristin L. Laidre Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155(4):2359-2370

An updated model of potential habitat for northern stock Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) and its use for attributing survey observations and fishery landings Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Fisheries Oceanography 33(3):e12644 (14 p.)

Priorities for synthesis research in ecology and environmental science Halpern, Benjamin S., Carl Boettiger, Michael C. Dietze, Jessica A. Gephart, Patrick Gonzalez, Nancy B. Grimm, Peter M. Groffman, Jessica Gurevitch, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Kristy J. Kroeker, Heather J. Lahr, David M. Lodge, Christopher J. Lortie, Julie S.S. Lowndes, Fiorenza Micheli, Hugh P. Possingham, Mary H. Ruckelshaus, Courtney Scarborough, Chelsea L. Wood, Grace C. Wu, Lina Aoyama, Eva E. Arroyo, Christie A. Bahlai, Erin E. Beller, Rachael E. Blake, Karrigan S. Bork, Trevor A. Branch, Norah E.M. Brown, Julien Brun, Emilio M. Bruna, Lauren B. Buckley, Jessica L. Burnett, Max C.N. Castorani, Samantha H. Cheng, Sarah C. Cohen, Jessica L. Couture, Larry B. Crowder, Laura E. Dee, Arildo S. Dias, Ignacio J. Diaz-Maroto, Martha R. Downs, Joan C. Dudney, Erle C. Ellis, Kyle A. Emery, Jacob G. Eurich, Bridget E. Ferriss, Alexa Fredston, Hikaru Furukawa, Sara A. Gagne, Sarah R. Garlick, Colin J. Garroway, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Angelica L. Gonzalez, Eliza M. Grames, Tamar Guy-Haim, Ed Hackett, Lauren M. Hallett, Tamara K. Harms, Danielle E. Haulsee, Kyle J. Haynes, Elliott L. Hazen, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Kristal Jones, Gaurav S. Kandlikar, Dustin W. Kincaid, Matthew L. Knope, Anil Koirala, Jurek Kolasa, John S. Kominoski, Julia Koricheva, Lesley T. Lancaster, Jake A. Lawlor, Heili E. Lowman, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Kari E.A. Norman, Nan Nourn, Casey C. O'Hara, Suzanne X. Ou, Jacqueline L. Padilla-Gamino, Paula Pappalardo, Ryan A. Peek, Dominique Pelletier, Stephen Plont, Lauren C. Ponisio, Christina Portales-Reyes, Diogo B. Provete, Eric J. Raes, Carlos Ramirez-Reyes, Irene Ramos, Sydne Record, Anthony J. Richardson, Roberto Salguero-Gomez, Erin V. Satterthwaite, Chloe Schmidt, Aaron J. Schwartz, Craig R. See, Brendan D. Shea, Rachel S. Smith, Eric R. Sokol, Christopher T. Solomon, Trisha Spanbauer, Paris V. Stefanoudis, Beckett W. Sterner, Vitor Sudbrack, Jonathan D. Tonkin, Ashley R. Townes, Mireia Valle, Jonathan A. Walter, Kathryn I. Wheeler, William R. Wieder, David R. Williams, Marten Winter, Barbora Winterova, Lucy C. Woodall, Adam S. Wymore, and Casey Youngflesh Ecosphere 14(1):e4342 (13 p.)

Responses to pathogen exposure in sentinel juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River, CA Abdelrazek, Samah M.R., Richard E. Connon, Camilo Sanchez, Benjamin Atencio, Florian Mauduit, Brendan Lehman, Sascha L. Hallett, Stephen D. Atkinson, J. Scott Foott, and Miles E. Daniels Conservation Physiology 11(1):coad066 (13 p.)

A survey of coastal conditions around the continental US using a high-resolution ocean analysis Alexander, Michael A., James D. Scott, Michael G. Jacox, Clara Deser, Dillon J. Amaya, Antonietta Capotondi, and Adam S. Phillips Progress in Oceanography 216:103055 (20 p.)

Long-term changes in body size of green turtles nesting on Trindade Island, Brazil: Signs of recovery? Alves Pereira, Josiele, Agnaldo Silva Martins, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Ana Carolina de Azevedo Mazzuco Marine Environmental Research 186:105930 (8 p.)

Beaked whale sexual dimorphism, mating strategies, and diversification Alves, Filipe, Sarah L. Mesnick, Massimiliano Rosso, and Robert L. Pitman In: Bernd Wursig and Dara N. Orbach (eds.), Sex in cetaceans: morphology, behavior, and the evolution of sexual strategies, p. 385-413. Springer.

An evaluation of high-resolution ocean reanalyses in the California Current System Amaya, Dillon J., Michael A. Alexander, James D. Scott, and Michael G. Jacox Progress in Oceanography 210:102951 (19 p.)

Bottom marine heatwaves along the continential shelves of North America Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, James D. Scott, Clara Deser, Antonietta Capotondi, and Adam S. Phillips Nature Communications 14:1038 (15 p.)

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) distributions, aggregation structures, and predator interactions in Bransfield Strait Annasawmy, Pavanee, John K. Horne, Christian S. Reiss, George R. Cutter, and Gavin J. Macaulay Polar Biology 46:151-168

A shallow scattering layer structures the energy seascape of an open ocean predator Arostegui, Martin C., Barbara Muhling, Emmett Culhane, Heidi Dewar, Stephanie S. Koch, and Camrin D. Braun Science Advances 9(40):eadi8200 (11 p.)

Trends in Chinook salmon spawner abundance and total run size highlight linkages between life history, geography and decline Atlas, William I., Matthew R. Sloat, William H. Satterthwaite, Thomas W. Buehrens, Charles K. Parken, Jonathan W. Moore, Nathan J. Mantua, Jon Hart, and Anna Potapova Fish and Fisheries 24(4):595-617

Highly accurate species identification of Eastern Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) with high-throughput DNA sequencing Baetscher, Diana S., Hayley M. Nuetzel, and John Carlos Garza Conservation Genetics 24(5):563-574

Fin-spine microchemistry discriminates regional stocks of Caspian Sea starry sturgeon Bakhshalizadeh, Shima, Botagoz Murasovna Nasibulina, Tatyana Fedorovna Kurochkin, Attaala Muhaysin Ali, and Theodore W. Hermann Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 292:108483 (8 p.)

Laser ablation strontium isotopes and spatial assignment show seasonal mobility in red deer (Cervus elaphus) at Lazaret Cave, France (MIS 6) Barakat, Sarah, Mael Le Corre, Malte Willmes, Jessica Cohen, Manon Vuillien, Emmanuel Desclaux, and Kate Britton Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:988837 (14 p.)

Beaked whale dive cycle estimation based on acoustic data from drifting recording systems Barlow, Jay, and Jennifer L.K. McCullough Marine Mammal Science 39(2):688-695

Genetic and environmental drivers of migratory behavior in western burrowing owls and implications for conservation and management Barr, Kelly, Christen M. Bossu, Rachael A. Bay, Eric C. Anderson, Jim Belthoff, Lynne A. Trulio, Debra Chromczak, Colleen L. Wisinski, Thomas B. Smith, and Kristen C. Ruegg Evolutionary Applications 16(12):1889-1900

Deconstructing dams and disease: predictions for salmon disease risk following Klamath River dam removals Bartholomew, Jerri L., Julie D. Alexander, Justin Alvarez, Stephen D. Atkinson, Michael Belchik, Sarah J. Bjork, J. Scott Foott, Alex Gonyaw, Mark E. Hereford, Richard A. Holt, Barry McCovey Jr., Nicholas A. Som, Toz Soto, Anne Voss, Thomas H. Williams, Ted G. Wise, and Sascha L. Hallett Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1245967 (24 p.)

Genetic diversity and demographic history of the leopard seal: A Southern Ocean top predator Bender, Arona N., Douglas J. Krause, Michael E. Goebel, Joseph I. Hoffman, Eric A. Lewallen, and Carolina A. Bonin PLoS ONE 18(8):e0284640 (16 p.)

Divergent sensory and immune gene evolution in sea turtles with contrasting demographic and life histories Bentley, Blair P., Tomas Carrasco-Valenzuela, Elia K.S. Ramos, Harvinder Pawar, Larissa Souza Arantes, Alana Alexander, Shreya M. Banerjee, Patrick Masterson, Martin Kuhlwilm, Martin Pippel, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Bettina Haase, Marcela Uliano-Silva, Giulio Formenti, Kerstin Howe, William Chow, Alan Tracey, Ying Sims, Sarah Pelan, Jonathan Wood, Kelsey Yetsko, Justin R. Perrault, Kelly Stewart, Scott R. Benson, Yaniv Levy, Erica V. Todd, H. Bradley Shaffer, Peter Scott, Brian T. Henen, Robert W. Murphy, David W. Mohr, Alan F. Scott, David J. Duffy, Neil, J. Gemmell, Alexander Suh, Syke Winkler, Francoise Thibaud-Nissen, Mariana F. Nery, Tomas Marques-Bonet, Agostinho Antunes, Yaron Tikochinski, Peter H. Dutton, Olivier Fedrigo, Eugene W. Myers, Erich D. Jarvis, Camila J. Mazzoni, and Lisa M. Komoroske Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120(7):e2201076120 (12 p.)

Distinct patterns of inheritance shape life-history traits in steelhead trout Beulke, Anne K., Alicia Abadia-Cardoso, Devon E. Pearse, Laura C. Goetz, Neil F. Thompson, Eric C. Anderson, and John Carlos Garza Molecular Ecology 32(24):6896-6912

Gills, growth and activity across fishes Bigman, Jennifer S., Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Fish and Fisheries 24(5):730-743

Revisiting a central prediction of the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory: Gill area index and growth performance Bigman, Jennifer S., Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Fish and Fisheries 24(3):354-366

Observing ocean ecosystem responses to volcanic ash Bisson, K.M., S. Gasso, N. Mahowald, S. Wagner, B. Koffman, S.A. Carn, S. Deutsch, E. Gazel, S. Kramer, N. Krotkov, C. Mitchell, M.E. Pritchard, K. Stamieszkin, and C. Wilson Remote Sensing of Environment 296:113749 (13 p.)

A Field Guide to the Fishes of the Salish Sea is a portable work of art: Theodore W. Pietsch, James W. Orr (illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri), A field guide to the fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca, Washington State and British Columbia. Chatwin Books, 2023 [book review] Bizzarro, Joseph J. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106(12):2219-2221

Trophic guilds of marine predators in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Bizzarro, Joseph J., John C. Field, Jarrod A. Santora, K. Alexandra Curtis, and Brian K. Wells Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1195000 (21 p.)

A multi-predator trophic database for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Bizzarro, Joseph J., Lynn Dewitt, Brian K. Wells, K. Alexandra Curtis, Jarrod A. Santora, and John C. Field Scientific Data 10:496 (10 p.)

Natal contributions of kokanee salmon to Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Wyoming-Utah: An evaluation using otolith microchemistry Black, A.R., J.D. Walrath, M. Willmes, and M.C. Quist Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 14(1):90-107

Variability in billfish vertical distribution and fishing interactions driven by environmental conditions in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean Blondin, H.E., D.E. Haulsee, R. Logan, M. Shivji, E.R. Hoffmayer, J.H. Walker, J.M. Dean, E.L. Hazen, and L.B. Crowder ICES Journal of Marine Science 80(6):1629-1642

Fisheries Oceanography: The first 30 years and new challenges Bograd, Steven J., Martin Edwards, Shin-ichi Ito, Janet Nye, and Emily Chappell Fisheries Oceanography 32(1):3-9

Climate change impacts on eastern boundary upwelling systems Bograd, Steven J., Michael G. Jacox, Elliott L. Hazen, Elisa Lovecchio, Ivonne Montes, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Lynn J. Shannon, William J. Sydeman, and Ryan R. Rykaczewski Annual Review of Marine Science 15:303-28

Time and behavioral adjustments to lactation: Insights from a marine predator Borras-Chavez, Renato, Michael E. Goebel, Stella Villegas-Amtmann, Luis A. Huckstadt, Carla Rivera-Rebella, Daniel P. Costa, Jose M. Farina, and Francisco Bozinovic Marine Mammal Science 39(1):131-150

South-Central / Southern California Coast Recovery Domain Boughton, David A. In: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 175-209. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-686.

Migrant steelhead passage after dam removal, river reroute, and channel evolution in the Carmel River, California Boughton, David A., Haley A. Ohms, and Cory Hamilton Report to California American Water and the California Coastal Office of the National Marine Fisheries Service, West Coast Region. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 8 p.

Building use-inspired species distribution models: Using multiple data types to examine and improve model performance Braun, Camrin D., Martin C. Arostegui, Nima Farchadi, Michael Alexander, Pedro Afonso, Andrew Allyn, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Daniel P. Crear, Emmett F. Culhane, Tobey H. Curtis, Elliott L. Hazen, Alex Kerney, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Katherine E. Mills, Dylan Pugh, Nuno Queiroz, James D. Scott, Gregory B. Skomal, David W. Sims, Simon R. Thorrold, Heather Welch, Riley Young-Morse, and Rebecca L. Lewison Ecological Applications 33(6):e2893

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