Evaluation of prey composition and nutritional value of diets of free-ranging harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) from Tugidak Island

• Main Author: Geiger, Gretchen L.
• Other Authors: Atkinson, Shannon, Carpenter, James, Horstmann-Dehn, Larissa, Wynne, Kate
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: harbor seal; diet; nutrition; Alaska; Tugidak Island; Fairbanks; Island Harbor; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11316

Thesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2012 Changes in climate can cause shifts in ecosystem structure that can affect quantity or quality of prey available to predator populations. Due to sex or age-specific behaviors of predators, certain classes within a population may be more severely imp...