Environmental correlates of reproduction, patterns of maternal allocation, and variation in adult female vital rates in the Weddell seal

• Main Author: Paterson, John Terrill
• Other Authors: Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Jay J. Rotella, Jay J. Rotella, Kevin R. Arrigo and Robert A. Garrott were co-authors of the article, 'Tight coupling of primary production and marine mammal reproduction in the Southern Ocean' in the journal 'Proceedings of the Royal Society B' which is contained within this thesis., Jay J. Rotella, Jennifer M. Mannas and Robert A. Garrott were co-authors of the article, 'Patterns of age-related change in reproductive effort differ in the prenatal and postnatal periods in a long-lived mammal' in the journal 'Journal of animal ecology' which is contained within this thesis., Jay J. Rotella, William A. Link and Robert A. Garrott were co-authors of the article, 'Variation in the vital rates of an antarctic marine predator: reproductive costs, age-related changes, and individual heterogeneity' submitted to the journal 'Journal of animal ecology' which is contained within this thesis.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science 2017
• Subjects: Weddell seal; Reproduction; Animal populations; Females; Erebus Bay; McMurdo Sound; Ross Sea; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/14050

The dynamics of populations are the integrated result of multiple processes affecting variation in vital rates. Using a long-term mark-recapture dataset from a population of Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, I investigated three processes related to population dynami...