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Summing the strokes: energy economy in northern elephant seals during large-scale foraging migrations

BACKGROUND: The energy requirements of free-ranging marine mammals are challenging to measure due to cryptic and far-ranging feeding habits, but are important to quantify given the potential impacts of high-level predators on ecosystems. Given their large body size and carnivorous lifestyle, we woul...

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Autores principales: Maresh, JL, Adachi, T., Takahashi, A., Naito, Y., Crocker, DE, Horning, M., Williams, TM, Costa, DP
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26380090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40462-015-0049-2