Foraging Behavior and Success of a Mesopelagic Predator in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Insights from a Data-Rich Species, the Northern Elephant Seal

• Main Authors: Robinson, Patrick W., Costa, Daniel P., Crocker, Daniel E., Gallo-Reynoso, Juan Pablo, Champagne, Cory D., Fowler, Melinda A., Goetsch, Chandra, Goetz, Kimberly T., Hassrick, Jason L., H??ckst??dt, Luis A., Kuhn, Carey E., Maresh, Jennifer L., Maxwell, Sara M., McDonald, Birgitte I., Peterson, Sarah H., Simmons, Samantha E., Teutschel, Nicole M., Villegas-Amtmann, Stella, Yoda, Ken
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PLoS ONE 2012
• Subjects: foraging behavior (Animals); northern elephant seal; predation in mammals; habitat partitioning; animal migration; sexual behavior in animals; Pacific Ocean; Arctic; Ida; Myers; Pacific; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.1/1595

Published by and copyright by Public Library of Science (PLoS) The mesopelagic zone of the northeast Pacific Ocean is an important foraging habitat for many predators, yet few studies have addressed the factors driving basin-scale predator distributions or inter-annual variability in foraging and br...