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Baleen whale prey consumption based on high-resolution foraging measurements by Savoca, Matthew S., Czapanskiy, Max F., Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R., Gough, William T., Fahlbusch, James A., Bierlich, K. C., Segre, Paolo S., Di Clemente, Jacopo, Penry, Gwenith S., Wiley, David N., Calambokidis, John, Nowacek, Douglas P., Johnston, David W., Pyenson, Nicholas D., Friedlaender, Ari S., Hazen, Elliott L., Goldbogen, Jeremy A.

“…Baleen whales influence their ecosystems through immense prey consumption and nutrient recycling 1 – 3 . It is difficult to accurately gauge the magnitude of…”
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Bubble blasts! An adaptation for buoyancy regulation in shallow foraging gray whales by Bird, Clara N., Pirotta, Enrico, New, Leslie, Bierlich, K. C., Hildebrand, Lisa, Fernandez Ajó, Alejandro, Torres, Leigh G.

“…Foraging efficiency is key to animal fitness. Consequently, animals evolved a variety of kinematic, morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations…”
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Energetic and physical limitations on the breaching performance of large whales by Segre, Paolo S, Potvin, Jean, Cade, David E, Calambokidis, John, Di Clemente, Jacopo, Fish, Frank E, Friedlaender, Ari S, Gough, William T, Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R, Oliveira, Cláudia, Parks, Susan E, Penry, Gwenith S, Simon, Malene, Stimpert, Alison K, Wiley, David N, Bierlich, K C, Madsen, Peter T, Goldbogen, Jeremy A

“…The considerable power needed for large whales to leap out of the water may represent the single most expensive burst maneuver found in nature. However, the…”
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Range-Wide Comparison of Gray Whale Body Condition Reveals Contrasting Sub-Population Health Characteristics and Vulnerability to Environmental Change by Torres, Leigh G., Bird, Clara N., Rodríguez-González, Fabian, Christiansen, Fredrik, Bejder, Lars, Lemos, Leila, Urban R, Jorge, Swartz, Steven, Willoughby, Amy, Hewitt, Joshua, Bierlich, KC

“…Climate change is a global phenomenon, yet impacts on resource availability to predators may be spatially and temporally diverse and asynchronous. As capital…”
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Using audio and UAS‐based video for estimating tidal lung volumes of resting and active adult gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) by Sumich, James L., Albertson, Renee, Torres, Leigh G., Bird, Clara N., Bierlich, KC, Harris, Chelsea

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Assessment of a non-invasive approach to pregnancy diagnosis in gray whales through drone-based photogrammetry and faecal hormone analysis by Fernandez Ajó, A, Pirotta, E, Bierlich, K C, Hildebrand, L, Bird, C N, Hunt, K E, Buck, C L, New, L, Dillon, D, Torres, L G

“…Knowledge of baleen whales' reproductive physiology is limited and requires long-term individual-based studies and innovative tools. We used 6 years of…”
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QCD challenges from pp to A–A collisions by Adolfsson, J., Andronic, A., Bierlich, C., Bozek, P., Chakraborty, S., Christiansen, P., Chinellato, D. D., Fries, R. J., Gustafson, G., van Hees, H., Jacobs, P. M., Kim, D. J., Lönnblad, L., Mace, M., Matonoha, O., Mazeliauskas, A., Morsch, A., Nassirpour, A., Ohlson, A., Ortiz, A., Oskarsson, A., Otterlund, I., Paić, G., Perepelitsa, D. V., Plumberg, C., Preghenella, R., Rapp, R., Rasmussen, C. O., Rossi, A., Rueda, O. V., Silva, A. V. D., Silvermyr, D., Timmins, A., Sjöstrand, T., Törnkvist, R., Utheim, M., Vislavicius, V., Wiedemann, U. A., Zapp, K., Zhao, W.

“…This paper is a write-up of the ideas that were presented, developed and discussed at the third International Workshop on QCD Challenges from pp to A–A, which…”
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Comparing Uncertainty Associated With 1-, 2-, and 3D Aerial Photogrammetry-Based Body Condition Measurements of Baleen Whales by Bierlich, K. C., Hewitt, Joshua, Bird, Clara N., Schick, Robert S., Friedlaender, Ari, Torres, Leigh G., Dale, Julian, Goldbogen, Jeremy, Read, Andrew J., Calambokidis, John, Johnston, David W.

“…Body condition is a crucial and indicative measure of an animal’s fitness, reflecting overall foraging success, habitat quality, and balance between energy…”
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Minke whale feeding rate limitations suggest constraints on the minimum body size for engulfment filtration feeding by Cade, David E., Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R., Gough, William T., Bierlich, K. C., Linsky, Jacob M. J., Calambokidis, John, Johnston, David W., Goldbogen, Jeremy A., Friedlaender, Ari S.

“…Bulk filter feeding has enabled gigantism throughout evolutionary history. The largest animals, extant rorqual whales, utilize intermittent engulfment…”
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Demography of an ice-obligate mysticete in a region of rapid environmental change by Pallin, L, Bierlich, K C, Durban, J, Fearnbach, H, Savenko, O, Baker, C S, Bell, E, Double, M C, de la Mare, W, Goldbogen, J, Johnston, D, Kellar, N, Nichols, R, Nowacek, D, Read, A J, Steel, D, Friedlaender, A

“…Antarctic minke whales ( , AMW) are an abundant, ice-dependent species susceptible to rapid climatic changes occurring in parts of the Antarctic. Here, we used…”
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Seasonal gain in body condition of foraging humpback whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula by Bierlich, K. C., Hewitt, Joshua, Schick, Robert S., Pallin, Logan, Dale, Julian, Friedlaender, Ari S., Christiansen, Fredrik, Sprogis, Kate R., Dawn, Allison H., Bird, Clara N., Larsen, Gregory D., Nichols, Ross, Shero, Michelle R., Goldbogen, Jeremy, Read, Andrew J., Johnston, David W.

“…Most baleen whales are capital breeders that use stored energy acquired on foraging grounds to finance the costs of migration and reproduction on breeding…”
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Temporal and Regional Variability in the Skin Microbiome of Humpback Whales along the Western Antarctic Peninsula by Bierlich, K C, Miller, Carolyn, DeForce, Emelia, Friedlaender, Ari S, Johnston, David W, Apprill, Amy

“…The skin is the first line of defense between an animal and its environment, and disruptions in skin-associated microorganisms can be linked to an animal's…”
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Drones and convolutional neural networks facilitate automated and accurate cetacean species identification and photogrammetry by Gray, Patrick C., Bierlich, Kevin C., Mantell, Sydney A., Friedlaender, Ari S., Goldbogen, Jeremy A., Johnston, David W., Ye, Hao

“…The flourishing application of drones within marine science provides more opportunity to conduct photogrammetric studies on large and varied populations of…”
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Modeling individual growth reveals decreasing gray whale body length and correlations with ocean climate indices at multiple scales by Pirotta, Enrico, Bierlich, K. C., New, Leslie, Hildebrand, Lisa, Bird, Clara N., Fernandez Ajó, Alejandro, Torres, Leigh G.

“…Changes in body size have been documented across taxa in response to human activities and climate change. Body size influences many aspects of an individual's…”
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Scaling of swimming performance in baleen whales by Gough, William T, Segre, Paolo S, Bierlich, K C, Cade, David E, Potvin, Jean, Fish, Frank E, Dale, Julian, di Clemente, Jacopo, Friedlaender, Ari S, Johnston, David W, Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R, Kennedy, John, Long, John H, Oudejans, Machiel, Penry, Gwenith, Savoca, Matthew S, Simon, Malene, Videsen, Simone K A, Visser, Fleur, Wiley, David N, Goldbogen, Jeremy A

“…The scale dependence of locomotor factors has long been studied in comparative biomechanics, but remains poorly understood for animals at the upper extremes of…”
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Lunge filter feeding biomechanics constrain rorqual foraging ecology across scale by Kahane-Rapport, S R, Savoca, M S, Cade, D E, Segre, P S, Bierlich, K C, Calambokidis, J, Dale, J, Fahlbusch, J A, Friedlaender, A S, Johnston, D W, Werth, A J, Goldbogen, J A

“…Fundamental scaling relationships influence the physiology of vital rates, which in turn shape the ecology and evolution of organisms. For diving mammals,…”
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Scaling of oscillatory kinematics and Froude efficiency in baleen whales by Gough, William T, Smith, Hayden J, Savoca, Matthew S, Czapanskiy, Max F, Fish, Frank E, Potvin, Jean, Bierlich, K C, Cade, David E, Di Clemente, Jacopo, Kennedy, John, Segre, Paolo, Stanworth, Andrew, Weir, Caroline, Goldbogen, Jeremy A

“…High efficiency lunate-tail swimming with high-aspect-ratio lifting surfaces has evolved in many vertebrate lineages, from fish to cetaceans. Baleen whales…”
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Downsized: gray whales using an alternative foraging ground have smaller morphology by Bierlich, K C, Kane, A, Hildebrand, L, Bird, C N, Fernandez Ajo, A, Stewart, J D, Hewitt, J, Hildebrand, I, Sumich, J, Torres, L G

“…Describing individual morphology and growth is key for identifying ecological niches and monitoring the health and fitness of populations. Eastern North…”
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Scaling of maneuvering performance in baleen whales: larger whales outperform expectations by Segre, Paolo S, Gough, William T, Roualdes, Edward A, Cade, David E, Czapanskiy, Max F, Fahlbusch, James, Kahane-Rapport, Shirel R, Oestreich, William K, Bejder, Lars, Bierlich, K C, Burrows, Julia A, Calambokidis, John, Chenoweth, Ellen M, di Clemente, Jacopo, Durban, John W, Fearnbach, Holly, Fish, Frank E, Friedlaender, Ari S, Hegelund, Peter, Johnston, David W, Nowacek, Douglas P, Oudejans, Machiel G, Penry, Gwenith S, Potvin, Jean, Simon, Malene, Stanworth, Andrew, Straley, Janice M, Szabo, Andrew, Videsen, Simone K A, Visser, Fleur, Weir, Caroline R, Wiley, David N, Goldbogen, Jeremy A

“…Despite their enormous size, whales make their living as voracious predators. To catch their much smaller, more maneuverable prey, they have developed several…”
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Assessing variation in faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in gray whales exposed to anthropogenic stressors by Pirotta, Enrico, Fernandez Ajó, Alejandro, Bierlich, K C, Bird, Clara N, Buck, C Loren, Haver, Samara M, Haxel, Joseph H, Hildebrand, Lisa, Hunt, Kathleen E, Lemos, Leila S, New, Leslie, Torres, Leigh G

“…Understanding animals’ responses to stressors is required to assess population consequences and inform management. We develop a flexible analytical approach to…”
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