Variability in temporary emigration rates of individually marked female Weddell seals prior to first reproduction

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 129-140

  Stauffer, Glenn E ^a   Rotella, Jay J ^a   Garrott, Robert A ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture mark recapture; Colonial breeding; Condition dependent; Leptonychotes weddellii; Open robust design; Recruitment; Social learning; Trade offs; Unobservable states

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL BREEDING; DORMANCY; EMIGRATION; LEARNING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PINNIPED; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TRADE-OFF;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; EREBUS BAY;

LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; FEMALE; REPRODUCTION; SEALS, EARLESS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84876190386     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2472-z     Document Type: Article

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