Social survival: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) use social structure to partition ecological niches within proposed critical habitat

• Janie Wray ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: janie@bcwhales.org

  Affiliations North Coast Cetacean Society, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, Pacific Orca Society, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0382-0528

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• Eric Keen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations North Coast Cetacean Society, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, Marine Ecology & Telemetry Research, Seabeck, Washington, United States of America, Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Éadin N. O’Mahony

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations North Coast Cetacean Society, Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews, East Sands, St Andrews, United Kingdom

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