M. M. Muto
National Marine Fisheries Service
5 Papers
12 Citations
M. M. Muto is an academic researcher from National Marine Fisheries Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Marine mammal & Whale. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 5 publications.
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Papers
Killer whales and marine mammal trends in the north pacific—a re-examination of evidence for sequential megafauna collapse and the prey-switching hypothesis
Paul R. Wade,Vladimir N. Burkanov,Marilyn E. Dahlheim,Nancy A. Friday,Lowell W. Fritz,Thomas R. Loughlin,Sally A. Mizroch,M. M. Muto,Dale W. Rice,Lance G. Barrett-Lennard,Nancy Black,Alexander M. Burdin,John Calambokidis,Sal Cerchio,John K. B. Ford,Jeff K. Jacobsen,Craig O. Matkin,Dena R. Matkin,Amee V. Mehta,Robert J. Small,Janice M. Straley,Shannon M. McCluskey,Glenn R. VanBlaricom,Phillip J. Clapham +23 more
TL;DR: The Springer et al. hypothesis that sequential declines occurred in North Pacific populations of harbor and fur seals, Steller sea lions, and sea otters were due to increased predation by killer whales, when industrial whaling's removal of large whales as a supposed primary food source precipitated a prey switch is suggested.
Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessments, 2018
M. M. Muto,V. T. Helker,Robyn P. Angliss,Peter L. Boveng,Jeffrey Mark Breiwick,Michael F. Cameron,Phil Clapham,Shawn Patrick Dahle,Marilyn E. Dahlheim,Brian S. Fadely,Megan C. Ferguson,Lowell W. Fritz,Roderick C. Hobbs,Yulia V. Ivashchenko,Amy S. Kennedy,Josh M. London,Sally A. Mizroch,R. R. (Rolf R.) Ream,E. L. Richmond,Kim E. W. Shelden,Kathryn M. Sweeney,Rodney G. Towell,Paul R. Wade,Janice M. Waite,Alexandre N. Zerbini +24 more
- 01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: A large-scale study of humpback whales throughout the North Pacific was conducted in 2004-06 (the Structure of Populations, Levels of Abundance, and Status of Humpbacks, or SPLASH, project).
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Human-caused mortality and injury of NMFS-managed Alaska marine mammal stocks 2013-2017
B. J. Delean,V. T. Helker,M. M. Muto,K. Savage,Suzanne F. Teerlink,Lauri A. Jemison,Kristin Wilkinson,Jason E. Jannot,N. C. Young +8 more
- 01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: Data from documented interactions between human activities and pinnipeds or cetaceans belonging to stocks which appear in the Alaska Marine Mammal Stock Assessment Reports (SARs) were compiled for the 5-year period from 2013 through 2017.
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An assessment of shore-based counts of gray whales
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison of sighting records showed that time and location accuracy was limited to 45 s, 3 ◦ (magnetic) horizontally, and 0.0057 (0.2 reticles) vertically.