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

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 breeding success. Understanding these processes is critical to re...