Sex‐specific diet differences in harbor seals ( Phoca vitulina) via spatial assortment

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Conwell, Holland C., Lewis, Zoë K., Thomas, Austen, Acevedo‐Gutiérrez, Alejandro, Schwarz, Dietmar
• Other Authors: Western Washington University, Pacific Salmon Foundation
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2024
• Subjects: Fraser River; Pacific; harbor seal; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11417; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.11417

Abstract The lack of recovery of Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) in the Pacific Northwest has been blamed in part on predation by pinnipeds, particularly the harbor seal ( Phoca vitulina ). Previous work at a limited number of locations has shown that male seal diet contains more salmon...