Complexity of domoic acid-related sea lion strandings in Monterey Bay, California: Foraging patterns, climate events, and toxic blooms

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 418, Issue , 2010, Pages 213-222

  Bargu, Sibel ^a   Silver, Mary ^b   Goldstein, Tracey ^c   Roberts, Kathryn ^b   Gulland, Frances ^d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal stranding; California sea lion; Domoic acid; ENSO; Foraging behavior; Harmful algal blooms; Monterey Bay; Pseudo nitzschia

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ALGAL BLOOM; AMINO ACID; BREEDING SEASON; COMPLEXITY; DIATOM; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOVEMENT; PINNIPED; REPRODUCTIVE CYCLE; STRANDING; TIME SERIES; TOXIC ORGANISM; TOXICOLOGY; TOXIN; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA; MONTEREY BAY; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; BACILLARIOPHYTA; MAMMALIA; OTARIIDAE; PINNIPEDIA; PSEUDO-NITZSCHIA; ZALOPHUS; ZALOPHUS CALIFORNIANUS;

EID: 78649565688     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08816     Document Type: Article

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