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EIA Database

Energy and prey requirements of California sea lions under variable environmental conditions

2017
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

Marine Ecology Progress Series

McHuron, E. A., M. Mangel, L. K. Schwarz, and D. P. Costa

Quantifying energy demands and prey consumption of marine mammals is important to understand the population dynamics of species and their ecological role in marine ecosystems. We...
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Keywords: Bioenergetic model, Population dynamics, Quantifying energy, Sea lions, Zalophus californianus

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