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Whisker growth dynamics in two North Pacific pinnipeds: implications for determining foraging ecology from stable isotope analysis

2016
Pay-walled/Intertek link Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Ecology Progress Series

McHuron EA, Walcott SM, Zeligs J, Skrovan S, Costa DP, Reichmuth C

Stable isotope analysis (SIA) of whiskers is increasingly used to investigate the foraging ecology of pinnipeds. An understanding of whisker growth dynamics is lacking for most...
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Keywords: Foraging behavior, Growth rate, Otariid, Phocid, Vibrissae

The energetic consequences of behavioral variation in a marine carnivore

2018
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Ecology and Evolution

E McHuron, SH Peterson, LA Huckstadt, SR Melin, JD Harris, and DP Costa

Intraspecific variability in foraging behavior has been documented across a range of taxonomic groups, yet the energetic consequences of this variation are not well understood for...
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Keywords: California sea lion, Doubly labeled water, Field metabolic rate, Foraging behavior, Intraspecific variation, Pinniped