Linking killer whale survival and prey abundance: food limitation in the oceans' apex predator?

per Ford, John K. B., Ellis, Graeme M., Olesiuk, Peter F., Balcomb, Kenneth C.
Publicat 2010

Population growth is limited by nutritional impacts on pregnancy success in endangered Southern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca)

per Wasser, Samuel K., Lundin, Jessica I., Ayres, Katherine, Seely, Elizabeth, Giles, Deborah, Balcomb, Kenneth, Hempelmann, Jennifer, Parsons, Kim, Booth, Rebecca
Publicat a PLoS One (2017)

Postreproductive lifespans are rare in mammals

per Ellis, Samuel, Franks, Daniel W., Nattrass, Stuart, Cant, Michael A., Bradley, Destiny L., Giles, Deborah, Balcomb, Kenneth C., Croft, Darren P.
Publicat a Ecol Evol (2018)

Analyses of ovarian activity reveal repeated evolution of post-reproductive lifespans in toothed whales

per Ellis, Samuel, Franks, Daniel W., Nattrass, Stuart, Currie, Thomas E., Cant, Michael A., Giles, Deborah, Balcomb, Kenneth C., Croft, Darren P.
Publicat a Sci Rep (2018)

Postreproductive killer whale grandmothers improve the survival of their grandoffspring

per Nattrass, Stuart, Croft, Darren P., Ellis, Samuel, Cant, Michael A., Weiss, Michael N., Wright, Brianna M., Stredulinsky, Eva, Doniol-Valcroze, Thomas, Ford, John K. B., Balcomb, Kenneth C., Franks, Daniel W.
Publicat a Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2019)

A long postreproductive life span is a shared trait among genetically distinct killer whale populations

per Nielsen, Mia Lybkær Kronborg, Ellis, Samuel, Towers, Jared R., Doniol‐Valcroze, Thomas, Franks, Daniel W., Cant, Michael A., Weiss, Michael N., Johnstone, Rufus A., Balcomb, Kenneth C., Ellifrit, David K., Croft, Darren P.
Publicat a Ecol Evol (2021)

Age and sex influence social interactions, but not associations, within a killer whale pod

per Weiss, Michael N., Franks, Daniel W., Giles, Deborah A., Youngstrom, Sadie, Wasser, Samuel K., Balcomb, Kenneth C., Ellifrit, David K., Domenici, Paolo, Cant, Michael A., Ellis, Samuel, Nielsen, Mia L. K., Grimes, Charli, Croft, Darren P.
Publicat a Proc Biol Sci (2021)