Foraging ecology of northern elephant seals

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 353-382

  Le Boeuf, B J ^a   Crocker, D E ^a   Costa, D P ^a   Blackwell, S B ^a   Webb, P M ^a   Houser, D S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diving; Foraging; Habitat separation; Migration; Mirounga angustirostris; Northern elephant seals; Resource partitioning; Sex differences; Sexual segregation

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PINNIPED;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS;

EID: 0033815559     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2000)070[0353:FEONES]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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