Characterizing a Foraging Hotspot for Short-Finned Pilot Whales and Blainville’s Beaked Whales Located off the West Side of Hawai‘i Island by Using Tagging and Oceanographic Data
Fig 8
Kernel density estimates for Blainville’s beaked whale density (a), predicted Blainville’s beaked whale density from GAMM (b), smoother from GAMM for bathymetry (c), temperature at 300 m (d), micronekton density in the shallow layer observed on the 70 kHz (e). The two scales are not the same to better reflect where the areas of relative highest densities are, according to the density estimates and the model predictions. Dashed lines represent the confidence intervals around the smoothers.