Aging in Weddell Seals: Proximate Mechanisms of Age-Related Changes in Adaptations to Breath-Hold Hunting in an Extreme Environment

• Main Author: Horning, Markus
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2010
• Subjects: Seals; Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems; Biology; Antarctica; Southern Ocean; Biosphere; Oceans; McMurdo; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; McMurdo Sound; Weddell; Antarc*; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600071

Abstract: The primary objectives of this research are to investigate the proximate effects of aging on diving capability in the Weddell Seal and to describe mechanisms by which aging may influence foraging ecology, through physiology and behavior. This model pinniped species has been the focus of th...