Feast or famine: Evidence for mixed capital-income breeding strategies in Weddell seals

Oecologia

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-20

  Wheatley, Kathryn E ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,b   Harcourt, Robert G ^c   Hindell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capital breeding; Energy expenditure; Income breeding; Leptonychotes weddellii; Milk energy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BODY MASS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; LIFE HISTORY; PINNIPED; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MILK; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STARVATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGING; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MILK; SEALS, EARLESS; SEASONS; STARVATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII;

EID: 38649100036     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0888-7     Document Type: Article

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