Seasonal home ranges and fidelity to breeding sites among ringed seals

Polar Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1095-1109

  Kelly, Brendan P ^a,b   Badajos, Oriana H ^a,c   Kunnasranta, Mervi ^a,d   Moran, John R ^a,b   Martinez Bakker, Micaela ^a   Wartzok, Douglas ^e   Boveng, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^c Kachemak Bay Research Reserve   (United States)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Home range; Movements; Phoca hispida; Population structure; Site fidelity

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENE FLOW; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; MOVEMENT; PINNIPED; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SITE FIDELITY; TELEMETRY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CHUKCHI SEA;

PHOCA; PHOCA HISPIDA;

EID: 77954660358     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-010-0796-x     Document Type: Article

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