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Overview

Lisa T. Ballance is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States and focuses their research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Genetics.

Their research topics encompass a broad range of marine and ecological studies. Key areas include Marine animal studies overview, Underwater Acoustics Research, Avian ecology and behavior, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Marine and fisheries research, Marine and coastal plant biology, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Ballance has published extensively across several scientific venues. The frequent publication outlets for their work include Marine Mammal Science, Frontiers in Marine Science, The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue, Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and Molecular Ecology.

The scientist's recent research papers cover diverse aspects of marine biology and ecology. Notable papers include:

  • Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) (2023) in The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue
  • Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories (2021) in Molecular Ecology
  • Abundance and densities of beaked and bottlenose whales (family Ziphiidae) (2023) in The Journal of Cetacean Research and Management Special Issue
  • Timing is everything: Drivers of interannual variability in blue whale migration (2020) in Scientific Reports
  • Mitigating Bycatch: Novel Insights to Multidisciplinary Approaches (2021) in Frontiers in Marine Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include Robert L. Pitman, Jay Barlow, Tim Gerrodette, Dale Squires, and Jeffrey E. Moore. These coauthors have commonly contributed to studies related to marine mammals and ecological research.

Best Publications

  • Techniques for cetacean-habitat modeling

    J. V. Redfern;M. C. Ferguson;E. A. Becker;K. D. Hyrenbach

  • Oceanographic influences on seabirds and cetaceans of the eastern tropical Pacific: A review

    Lisa T. Ballance;Robert L. Pitman;Paul C. Fiedler

  • SEABIRD COMMUNITY STRUCTURE ALONG A PRODUCTIVITY GRADIENT: IMPORTANCE OF COMPETITION AND ENERGETIC CONSTRAINT

    Lisa T. Ballance;Robert L. Pitman;Stephen B. Reilly

  • HABITAT USE PATTERNS AND RANGES OF THE BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN IN THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

    Lisa Taylor Ballance

  • Massive Mortality of a Planktivorous Seabird in Response to a Marine Heatwave

    Timothy Jones;Julia K. Parrish;William T. Peterson;Eric P. Bjorkstedt

  • KILLER WHALE PREDATION ON SPERM WHALES: OBSERVATIONS AND IMPLICATIONS

    Robert L. Pitman;Lisa T. Ballance;Sarah I. Mesnick;Susan J. Chivers

  • Satellite tracking reveals distinct movement patterns for Type B and Type C killer whales in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Russel D. Andrews;Robert L. Pitman;Lisa T. Ballance

  • CETACEANS OF THE WESTERN TROPICAL INDIAN OCEAN: DISTRIBUTION, RELATIVE ABUNDANCE, AND COMPARISONS WITH CETACEAN COMMUNITIES OF TWO OTHER TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS

    Lisa T. Ballance;Robert L. Pitman

  • 13 – Residence Patterns, Group Organization, and Surfacing Associations of Bottlenose Dolphins in Kino Bay, Gulf of California, Mexico

    Lisa T. Ballance

  • Known and inferred distributions of beaked whale species (Cetacea: Ziphiidae)

    Colin D. Macleod;William F. P Errin;Robert Pitman;Jay Barlow

  • Food-web inferences of stable isotope spatial patterns in copepods and yellowfin tuna in the pelagic eastern Pacific Ocean

    Robert J. Olson;Brian N. Popp;Brittany S. Graham;Gladis A. López-Ibarra

  • Habitat-based spatial models of cetacean density in the eastern Pacific Ocean

    Karin A. Forney;Megan C. Ferguson;Elizabeth A. Becker;Paul C. Fiedler

  • Where the wild things are: predicting hotspots of seabird aggregations in the California Current System

    Nadav Nur;Jaime Jahncke;Mark P. Herzog;Julie Howar

  • Response of seabirds to thermal boundaries in the tropical Pacific: the thermocline versus the Equatorial Front

    Larry B. Spear;Lisa T. Ballance;David G. Ainley

  • An energetic correlate between colony size and foraging effort in seabirds, an example of the Adélie penguinPygoscelis adeliae

    Lisa T. Ballance;David G. Ainley;Grant Ballard;Kerry Barton

  • A review of eastern tropical Pacific oceanography: Summary

    M.F. Lavín;P.C. Fiedler;J.A. Amador;L.T. Ballance

  • Whale killers: Prevalence and ecological implications of killer whale predation on humpback whale calves off Western Australia

    Robert L. Pitman;John A. Totterdell;Holly Fearnbach;Lisa T. Ballance

  • Parkinson's Petrel Distribution and Foraging Ecology in the Eastern Pacific: Aspects of an Exclusive Feeding Relationship with Dolphins

    Robert L. Pitman;Lisa T. Ballance

  • Abundance and densities of beaked and bottlenose whales (family Ziphiidae)

    Jay Barlow;Megan C. Ferguson;William F. P Errin;Lisa Ballance

  • The importance of migratory connectivity for global ocean policy

    Daniel C. Dunn;Daniel C. Dunn;Autumn Lynn Harrison;Corrie Curtice;Sarah DeLand

  • Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans

    Lisa T. Ballance;Tara Whitty

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Pitman
Robert L. Pitman Oregon State University
Jay Barlow
Jay Barlow National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
John W. Durban
John W. Durban New England Aquarium
Andrew D. Foote
Andrew D. Foote Norwegian University of Science and Technology
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
Dale Squires
Dale Squires University of California, San Diego
Paul R. Wade
Paul R. Wade National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Daniel C. Dunn
Daniel C. Dunn University of Queensland
Henri Weimerskirch
Henri Weimerskirch Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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