Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) acoustic foraging behavior and applications for long term monitoring

• Manuel Castellote ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: manuel.castellote@noaa.gov

  Affiliations Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean and Ecosystem Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America, Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2136-5300

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• Aran Mooney,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States of America

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• Russel Andrews,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Marine Ecology and Telemetry Research, Seabeck, WA, United States of America

  Affiliations Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, AK, United States of America, College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States of America

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• Stacy Deruiter,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States of America, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

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• Wu-Jung Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Physics laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Megan Ferguson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Paul Wade

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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