Pacific Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) Resource Selection in the Northern Bering Sea

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Jay, Chadwick V., Grebmeier, Jacqueline M., Fischbach, Anthony S., McDonald, Trent L., Cooper, Lee W., Hornsby, Fawn
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2014
• Subjects: Research Article; Bering Sea; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Chukchi; Odobenus rosmarus; Sea ice; St Lawrence Island; walrus*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3981674; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24717979; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0093035

The Pacific walrus is a large benthivore with an annual range extending across the continental shelves of the Bering and Chukchi Seas. We used a discrete choice model to estimate site selection by adult radio-tagged walruses relative to the availability of the caloric biomass of benthic infauna and...