Southern Elephant Seals Replenish Their Lipid Reserves at Different Rates According to Foraging Habitat.

Assessing energy gain and expenditure in free ranging marine predators is difficult. However, such measurements are critical if we are to understand how variation in foraging efficiency, and in turn individual body condition, is impacted by environmentally driven changes in prey abundance and/or acc...

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Main Authors: Gaëtan Richard, Samantha L Cox, Baptiste Picard, Jade Vacquié-Garcia, Christophe Guinet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5130208?pdf=render