Maternal and birth colony effects on survival of Weddell seal offspring from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Hastings, Kelly K., Testa, J. Ward
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Animal Science and Zoology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; McMurdo Sound; Weddell; Hastings; Erebus Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2656.1998.00242.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2656.1998.00242.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2656.1998.00242.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1046/j.1365-2656.1998.00242.x; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2656.1998.00242.x

1. Maternal and birth colony effects on offspring survival to weaning and to reproductive age were examined for Weddell seals using mark–recapture models and over 25 years of mark–resight data from McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. 2. Pre‐weaning mortality (proportion of the total pups found dead on the ic...