Decreasing ice coverage will reduce the breeding success of Baltic grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) females

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 80-85

  Jüssi, Mart ^a   Härkönen, Tero ^b   Helle, Eero ^c   Jüssi, Ivar ^d  

^a Eestimaa Looduse Fond   (Estonia)

^b SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d State Nature Conservation Centre   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

BIRTH RATE; EXTINCTION RISK; FITNESS; ICE COVER; INFANT MORTALITY; PINNIPED; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL; WEANING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; NEWBORN; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; ICE; LITTER SIZE; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; SEALS, EARLESS;

HALICHOERUS GRYPUS;

EID: 43249124902     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[80:DICWRT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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30. Acknowledgments: We are grateful to Ian Boyd, Paddy Pomeroy, and Gordon Waring for valuable comments, and thank Bjørn Munro Jensen for providing detailed data on stage classes of grey seal pups. The study was financially and technically supported by WWF-Finland, the Finnish Institute of Game and Fisheries Research in 1990-1993, and the Estonian Ministry of Environment in 1995-1998. Field expeditions were carried out by joint expeditions arranged by WWF-Finland and the Estonian Fund for Nature. T.H. was financed by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. The handling of seals was carried out according to permits issued by Estonian and Finnish authorities.
31. First submitted 15 May 2007. Accepted for publication 5 July 2007.