Environmental variation and cohort effects in an Antarctic predator

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1027-1040

  Garrott, Robert A ^a   Rotella, Jay J ^a   Siniff, Donald B ^b   Parkinson, Claire L ^c   Stauffer, Glenn E ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; JUVENILE; MATERNAL EFFECT; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; PINNIPED; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEA ICE; WEANING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

ANIMALIA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII;

EID: 84862755841     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19673.x     Document Type: Article

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