High mortality of blue, humpback and fin whales from modeling of vessel collisions on the U.S. West Coast suggests population impacts and insufficient protection

R. Cotton Rockwood; John Calambokidis; Jaime Jahncke

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0183052

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High mortality of blue, humpback and fin whales from modeling of vessel collisions on the U.S. West Coast suggests population impacts and insufficient protection

R. Cotton Rockwood ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: crockwood@pointblue.org

Affiliation Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, California, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-4221

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John Calambokidis,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, Washington, United States of America
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Jaime Jahncke

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, California, United States of America
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High mortality of blue, humpback and fin whales from modeling of vessel collisions on the U.S. West Coast suggests population impacts and insufficient protection

R. Cotton Rockwood,
John Calambokidis,
Jaime Jahncke

Published: August 21, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183052

About the Authors

R. Cotton Rockwood

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: crockwood@pointblue.org

Affiliation Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, California, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-4221

John Calambokidis

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cascadia Research Collective, Olympia, Washington, United States of America

Jaime Jahncke

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. To our knowledge, the donors have no competing interests.

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