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Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

2017
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

Ecology and Evolution

Naito, Y., D. P. Costa, T. Adachi, P. W. Robinson, S. H. Peterson, Y. Mitani, and A. Takahashi

Little is known about the foraging behavior of top predators in the deep mesopelagic ocean. Elephant seals dive to the deep biota-poor oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)...
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Keywords: Mirounga angustirostris, Northern elephant seals, Oxygen minimum zone

Climate mediates the success of migration strategies in a marine predator

2018
Pay-walled/Intertek link Peer Reviewed Publication

Ecology Letters

Abrahms, B., E. L. Hazen, S. J. Bograd, J. S. Brashares, P. W. Robinson, K. L. Scales, D. E. Crocker, and D. P. Costa

Individual behavioural specialisation has far-reaching effects on fitness and population persistence. Theory predicts that unconditional site fidelity, that is fidelity to a site independent of past...
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Keywords: Behavioural strategy, Climate variability, Foraging ecology, Habitat selection, Individual specialisation, Migration, Mirounga angustirostris, Northern elephant seal, Resource predictability, Site fidelity