Foraging Fidelity as a Recipe for a Long Life : Foraging Strategy and Longevity in Male Southern Elephant Seals

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Authier, Matthieu, Bentaleb, Ilham, Ponchon, Aurore, Martin, Celine, Guinet, Christophe
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: SDG 14 - Life Below Water; MULTIVARIATE DATA-ANALYSIS; MIROUNGA-LEONINA L; STABLE-CARBON; INDIVIDUAL FITNESS; DECLINING POPULATION; REGRESSION-MODELS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; TROPHIC ECOLOGY; FUR SEALS; QH301 Biology; QH301; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/12443; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0032026

Acknowledgements The authors wish to thank all fieldworkers that have collected data since the first mission on ıles Kerguelen. In particular, the authors would like to thank Nory El-Ksabi and Quentin Delorme. We thank the Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (Paris) for kindly providing teeth collected before the population crash. We thank Anne-Cecile Dragon for helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript and for providing Figure S1. We also thank two anonynous reviewers and the Academic Editor, Andre´ Chiaradia, for constructive comments that greatly improved the manuscript both in content and in form. This is publication ISE-M no. ISEM 2012-012. Peer reviewed