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Foraging strategies of a generalist marine predator inhabiting a dynamic environment

2016
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Oecologia

McHuron, E. A., P. W. Robinson, S. E. Simmons, C. E. Kuhn, M. Fowler, and D. P. Costa

Intraspecific variability is increasingly recognized as an important component of foraging behavior that can have implications for both population and community dynamics. We used an individual-level...
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Keywords: California Current, Dive behavior, Individual variability, Sea lion, Zalophus californianus

A bioenergetics approach to understanding the population consequences of disturbance: Elephant seals as a model system

2016
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Costa, D., Schwarz, L., Robinson, P., Schick, R. et al.

Using long-term empirical data, we developed a complete population consequences of acoustic disturbance (PCAD) model and application for northern elephant seals. We assumed that the animals...
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Keywords: Acoustic disturbance, Behaviour, Demography, Population consequences of acoustic disturbance, Sea lion