Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 496, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-108

  New, L F ^a,b   Clark, J S ^c   Costa, D P ^d   Fleishman, E ^d,e   Hindell, M A ^f   Klanjscek T ^g   Lusseau, D ^h   Kraus, S ⁱ   McMahon, C R ^f,j   Robinson, P W ^d   Schick, R S ^b,c   Schwarz, L K ^d   Simmons, S E ^a   Thomas, L ^b   Tyack, P ^b   Harwood, J ^b  

^a Marine Mammal Commission   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^g RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM   (United States)

^j CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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Author keywords

Kalman filter; Mirounga leonina; Population consequences of disturbance; State space model; Telemetry data

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FITNESS; HOMEOSTASIS; KALMAN FILTER; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PINNIPED; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; RADIOTELEMETRY;

MACQUARIE ISLAND; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84893418395     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10547     Document Type: Article

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