Top‐down and bottom‐up influences on demographic rates of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella

• Published in: Journal of Animal Ecology
• Main Authors: Schwarz, Lisa K., Goebel, Michael E., Costa, Daniel P., Kilpatrick, A. Marm
• Other Authors: Weimerskirch, Henri
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Cape Shirreff; Hydrurga; Shirreff; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Hydrurga leptonyx; Leopard Seal
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12059; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2F1365-2656.12059; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12059

Summary Two major drivers in population dynamics are bottom‐up processes, such as environmental factors that affect foraging success, and the top‐down impacts of predation. Many populations of marine mammal and seabird species appear to be declining in response to reductions in prey associated with...