Seasonal activity budget of adult baltic ringed seals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Harkonen, Tero ^a   Jüssi, Mart ^b   Jüssi, Ivar ^c   Verevkin, Michail ^d   Dmitrieva, Lilia ^e   Helle, Eero ^f   Sagitov, Roustam ^d   Harding, Karin C ^g  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b Eestimaa Looduse Fond   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e St Petersburg Naturalist Society   (Russian Federation)

^f FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BALTIC SEA; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FEMALE; MALE; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; PHOCA; PREY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; ESTONIA; FINLAND; HISTOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA HISPIDA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOCA; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44849129319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002006     Document Type: Article

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