Fortuitous encounters between Seagliders and adult female northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) off the Washington (USA) coast: Upper ocean variability and links to top predator behavior

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Pelland, Noel A ^a   Sterling, Jeremy T ^b   Lea, Mary Anne ^c   Bond, Nicholas A ^d   Ream, Rolf R ^b   Lee, Craig M ^a,e   Eriksen, Charles C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; DIVING; ECOSYSTEM MONITORING; FEMALE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OVERWINTERING; PREDATION; REVIEW; SEAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; OTARIIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEA; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELEMETRY; WATER FLOW; WIND;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DIVING; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRESH WATER; FUR SEALS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TELEMETRY; WASHINGTON; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 84929504181     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101268     Document Type: Review

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