Climate-scale hydrographic features related to foraging success in a capital breeder, the northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris

Endangered Species Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 233-243

  Simmons, Samantha E ^a   Crocker, Daniel E ^b   Hassrick, Jason L ^a   Kuhn, Carey E ^c   Robinson, Patrick W ^a   Tremblay, Yann ^d   Costa, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

Author keywords

Apex predator; Habitat selection; North pacific; Subarctic gyre; Transition zone

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOREGION; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HABITAT SELECTION; HYDROGRAPHY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PINNIPED; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA ANGUSTIROSTRIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77952305512     PISSN: 18635407     EISSN: 16134796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esr00254     Document Type: Article

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