Individual dietary specialization and dive behaviour in the California sea otter: Using archival time-depth data to detect alternative foraging strategies

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 330-342

  Tinker, M T ^a   Costa, D P ^a   Estes, J A ^b   Wieringa, N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

California; Data loggers; Diet specialization; Diets; Foraging behaviour; San Simeon; Statistical analysis; USA

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA RECORDING; MAMMALS; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CALIFORNIA; DATA LOGGERS; DIET SPECIALIZATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SAN SIMEON;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

DATA MINING; DIET; DIVING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MARINE MAMMAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MUSTELID; PREY CAPTURE; PREY SELECTION; RADIOTELEMETRY; SPECIALIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN SIMEON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; ENHYDRA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 33947231718     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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