Impacts of environmental parameters on the foraging behaviour and breeding success of southern elephant seals from Kerguelen Islands : influence of individual strategies and inter-annual variability

• Main Author: Mestre, Julie
• Other Authors: Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé - UMR 7372 (CEBC), Université de La Rochelle (ULR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Sorbonne Université, Jean-Benoît Charrassin
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: Foraging ecology; Bio-logging; Stable isotopes; Foraging strategies; Breeding success; Southern elephant seals; Écologie alimentaire; Télémétrie; Isotopes stables; Stratégies alimentaires; Succès reproducteur; Éléphants de mer austraux; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology; Antarctic; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Island; Kerguelen Islands; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03371309; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03371309/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03371309/file/MESTRE_Julie_2020.pdf

Because time-series relative to foraging ecology, environmental parameters and population trends are scarce, few studies focused on the mechanisms linking oceanographic variables with the foraging behaviour and breeding success in marine top predators. This PhD thesis aims to assess the effects of i...