Oxygen stores plasticity linked to foraging behaviour and pregnancy in a diving predator, the Galapagos sea lion

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 785-795

  Villegas Amtmann, Stella ^a   Costa, Daniel P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diving behaviour; Diving physiology; Foraging strategies; Galapagos Islands; Physiological plasticity; Pinnipeds; Seasonal diving behaviour; Zalophus wollebaeki

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PINNIPED; POPULATION DECLINE; PREGNANCY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ECUADOR; GALAPAGOS ISLANDS;

PINNIPEDIA; VERTEBRATA; ZALOPHUS WOLLEBAEKI;

EID: 77958550246     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01685.x     Document Type: Article

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