Seasonal energetics of northern phocid seals

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-350

  Ochoa Acuña, Hugo G ^a   McNab, Brian K ^b   Miller, Edward H ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

BMR; Body composition; Energetics; Fasting; Food habits; Marine environment; Pagophilus; Phoca; Pinnipedia; Pusa; Seasonality

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BASAL METABOLIC RATE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PRESERVATION; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NONHUMAN; SEAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER;

MAMMALIA; PAGOPHILUS; PHOCA; PHOCA GROENLANDICA; PHOCA HISPIDA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; PUSA;

EID: 61349204494     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: 15314332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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