Long‐term evaluation of body mass at weaning and postweaning survival rates of Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica

• Published in: Marine Mammal Science
• Main Authors: Proffitt, Kelly M., Garrott, Robert A., Rotella, Jay J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2008
• Subjects: Weddell; Erebus Bay; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00207.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1748-7692.2008.00207.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2008.00207.x

Abstract Variability in juvenile survival rate is expected to be an important component of the dynamics of long‐lived animal populations. Across a range of species, individual variation in juvenile body mass has been shown to be an important cause of variation in fates of juveniles. Our goal in this...