Seasonal and spatial differences in diet in the western stock of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 973-990

  Sinclair, E H ^a   Zeppelin, T K ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Eumetopias jubatus; Food; Foraging; Otariid; Prey; Sea lions; Steller sea lions

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PINNIPED; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

CEPHALOPODA; EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; GADUS; GADUS MACROCEPHALUS; GADUS MORHUA; MACROCEPHALUS; MALLOTUS VILLOSUS; MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PINNIPEDIA; PLEUROGRAMMUS MONOPTERYGIUS; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; SALMONIDAE; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES); STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036861291     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<0973:SASDID>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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