Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration

AR Szesciorka, LT Ballance, A Širović, A Rice… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
migration timing, but also suggests the use of memory. The idea that memory of past conditions
combined with resource tracking … perceptual cues, blue whales use the memory of the …

Animal-borne metrics enable acoustic detection of blue whale migration

WK Oestreich, JA Fahlbusch, DE Cade, J Calambokidis… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Memory and resource tracking drive blue whale migrations. … to migration in the Northeast
Pacific population. We find that foraging blue whales sing primarily at night, whereas migratory …

Acoustic signature reveals blue whales tune life‐history transitions to oceanographic conditions

WK Oestreich, B Abrahms, MF McKenna… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… acoustic monitoring (PAM) from even a single monitoringmigration to foraging grounds,
reliance on spatial memory is … signals can also be useful to resource managers as a real-…

Oceanic giants dance to atmospheric rhythms: Ephemeral wind‐driven resource tracking by blue whales

JP Ryan, KJ Benoit‐Bird, WK Oestreich, P Leary… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… As interpreted from tracking of blue whale migration in … time scales, blue whales may apply
long-term memory to return … long-term memory to play a role in blue whale habitat occupancy …

Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape

S Dodson, WK Oestreich, MS Savoca, EL Hazen… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
… cues underlying timing of blue whales’ breeding migration in the … -scale resource tracking
strategies allow an adult blue whale to … Blue whales’ reliance on memory during the northward …

Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of emergent migratory behavior using individual-based models

S Dodson, B Abrahms, SJ Bograd, J Fiechter… - Ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
… Bottom-up processes including responses to environmental cues and tracking of resource
… to test the hypotheses of what drives blue whale foraging migrations. Previous studies of …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus L.) Population Movements in the Galapagos Archipelago and Southeast Pacific

HM Guzman, RM Estévez, S Kaiser - Animals, 2024 - mdpi.com
… changes, likely impacting whale resource availability. Our … -term memory likely facilitates the
annual return of blue whales to … Blue whale migration using the state–space model, tagged …

Sex-and age-specific migratory strategies of blue whales in the northeast Pacific Ocean

C Blevins, G Busquets-Vass, MA Pardo… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… ecology, our ability to study animal migration and habitat use has … blue whales particularly
vulnerable to changes in resource … work showing that blue whales rely on memory of long-term …

[图书][B] Animal Migration and Behavioral Flexibility in an Era of Rapid Global Change

WK Oestreich - 2022 - search.proquest.com
blue whales display remarkable and previously-unrecognized year-to-year flexibility in timing
of migration, tracking … application of natural resource management strategies that depend …

Baleen whale migration

TW Horton, DM Palacios, KM Stafford… - Ethology and behavioral …, 2022 - Springer
… , a stranded migrating whale provides sacred resources to its … Many blue whales adhere
to the stereotypical baleen whale … Passive acoustic monitoring has been particularly …