Adaptations to deep and prolonged diving in phocid seals

AS Blix - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
This Review focuses on the original papers that have made a difference to our thinking and
were first in describing an adaptation to diving, and less on those that later repeated the …

Trends in tagging of marine mammals: a review of marine mammal biologging studies

T McIntyre - African journal of marine science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The number of scientific papers resulting from biologging instruments deployed on marine
mammals is increasing as improved technologies result in smaller devices and improved …

Physiological tip** points in the relationship between foraging success and lifetime fitness of a long‐lived mammal

RS Beltran, KM Hernandez, R Condit… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although anthropogenic change is often gradual, the impacts on animal populations may be
precipitous if physiological processes create tip** points between energy gain …

Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories

MA Hindell, CR McMahon, MN Bester, L Boehme… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the Southern Ocean, wide‐ranging predators offer the opportunity to quantify how
animals respond to differences in the environment because their behavior and population …

Southern elephant seal foraging success in relation to temperature and light conditions: insight into prey distribution

C Guinet, J Vacquié-Garcia, B Picard… - Marine Ecology …, 2014 - int-res.com
The distribution of southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina prey encounter events (PEEs)
was investigated from the foraging behaviour of 29 post-breeding females simultaneously …

Flexible preference of southern elephant seals for distinct mesoscale features within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

C Cotté, F d'Ovidio, AC Dragon, C Guinet… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
The open ocean is a highly variable environment where marine top predators are thought to
require optimized foraging strategies to locate and capture prey. Mesoscale and sub …

Quasi-planktonic behavior of foraging top marine predators

A Della Penna, S De Monte, E Kestenare, C Guinet… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Monitoring marine top predators is fundamental for assessing the health and functioning of
open ocean ecosystems. Although recently tracking observations have substantially …

Movement and diving of killer whales (Orcinus orca) at a Southern Ocean archipelago

RR Reisinger, M Keith, RD Andrews… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Eleven satellite tags were deployed on 9 killer whales at the Prince Edwards Islands in the
Southern Ocean. State-space switching models were used to generate position estimates …

Horizontal and vertical movements as predictors of foraging success in a marine predator

AC Dragon, A Bar-Hen, P Monestiez… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2012 - int-res.com
With technical advances in wildlife telemetry, the study of cryptic predators' responses to
prey distribution has been revolutionised. In the case of marine predators, high resolution …

Ecological consequences of sexually selected traits: an eco-evolutionary perspective

ST Giery, CA Layman - The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
Evolution is rapidly gaining attention as an important driver of ecological process. Yet,
evolution via sexual selection has generally been omitted from this emerging synthesis. Our …