O’ mother where wert thou? Maternal strategies in the southern elephant seal: a stable isotope investigation.
Maternal effects are widespread in ecology and can alter the dynamics of a population. We investigated the impact of maternal foraging strategies on offspring weaning mass-a proxy of maternal foraging success and of offspring survival-in southern elephant seals on îles Kerguelen. Using 4 years of da...
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2012
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Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1062.2077 http://www.cebc.cnrs.fr/publipdf/2012/APRS279_2012.pdf |