Impact of the 2015 El Niño-Southern Oscillation on the abundance and foraging habits of Guadalupe fur seals and California sea lions from the San Benito …

FR Elorriaga-Verplancken, GE Sierra-Rodríguez… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The abundance of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus)(CSLs) and Guadalupe fur
seals (Arctocephalus philippii townsendi)(GFSs) from the San Benito Archipelago (SBA) was …

Mortality in an off-shore predator critical habitat during the Northeast Pacific marine heatwave

C Gálvez, S Raverty, F Galván-Magaña… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Defining baseline mortality and trends in wildlife populations is imperative to understand
natural and anthropogenic threats to overall population health and improve conservation …

Energy-rich mesopelagic fishes revealed as a critical prey resource for a deep-diving predator using quantitative fatty acid signature analysis

C Goetsch, MG Conners, SM Budge, Y Mitani… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the diet of deep-diving predators can provide essential insight to the trophic
structure of the mesopelagic ecosystem. Comprehensive population-level diet estimates are …

Impacts of extreme ocean warming on the early development of a marine top predator: The Guadalupe fur seal

C Gálvez, MA Pardo… - Progress in …, 2020 - Elsevier
From fall 2013 through 2015, a large-scale, multi-year warm water anomaly occurred in the
northeast Pacific Ocean. The phenomenon had negative impacts on some oceanic …

Ecological implications of unprecedented warm water anomalies on interannual prey preferences and foraging areas of Guadalupe fur seals

MJ Amador‐Capitanachi… - Marine Mammal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Guadalupe fur seal (GFS) currently is recovering from near extinction and prey
availability is an important factor. Scat and stable isotope analyses (SIA) were used to …

Foraging segregation by sex and age class in the Guadalupe fur seal from Guadalupe Island, Mexico

RA Cruz‐Vallejo… - Marine Mammal …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A proper assessment of the foraging habits of the Guadalupe fur seal (GFS; Arctocephalus
townsendi) is a priority to better understand its recovery, in which the potential for …

Unraveling the gut microbiota of Mexican pinnipeds: the dominance of life histories over phylogeny

A Pacheco-Sandoval, Y Schramm… - Applied and …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Studying how phylogeny influences the composition and functions of microbiotas within
animal hosts is essential for gaining insights into the connection between genetics, ecology …

[PDF][PDF] Unprecedented records of Guadalupe fur seals in La Paz Bay, southern gulf of California, Mexico, as a possible result of warming conditions in the Northeastern …

FR Elorriaga-Verplancken, H Rosales-Nanduca… - Aquatic …, 2016 - academia.edu
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus philippii
townsendi)(GFS) was hunted to the brink of extinction (Hubbs, 1956). In the 1950s, a few …

Diversification of foraging habits among Guadalupe fur seals from their only well-established breeding colony, Guadalupe Island, Mexico

A Juárez-Ruiz, FR Elorriaga-Verplancken… - Marine biology, 2018 - Springer
Intra-population resource partitioning is a foraging strategy that could minimize intra-specific
competition. This behavior may be ecologically relevant for species in recovery like the …

Guadalupe fur seal pup production predicted from annual variations of sea surface temperature in the southern California Current Ecosystem

A Juárez-Ruiz, MA Pardo… - ICES Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We evaluated the effects of sea surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) in the southern
California Current Ecosystem on the annual Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) …