Research Catalog

Title

Elephant seals : population ecology, behavior, and physiology / edited by Burney J. Le Boeuf and Richard M. Laws.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Le Boeuf, Burney J.
• Laws, Richard M.

Description

xvii, 414 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Elephant seals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Elephant Seals: An Introduction to the Genus / Burney J. Le Boeuf and Richard M. Laws -- 2. History and Present Status of the Northern Elephant Seal Population / Brent S. Stewart, Pamela K. Yochem, Harriet R. Huber, Robert L. DeLong, Ronald J. Jameson, William J. Sydeman, Sarah G. Allen and Burney J. Le Boeuf -- 3. History and Present Status of Southern Elephant Seal Populations / Richard M. Laws -- 4. Possible Causes of the Decline of Southern Elephant Seal Populations in the Southern Pacific and Southern Indian Oceans / Mark A. Hindell, David J. Slip and Harry R. Burton -- 5. Population Ecology of Southern Elephant Seals at Marion Island / Marthan N. Bester and Ian S. Wilkinson -- 6. Biomass and Energy Consumption of the South Georgia Population of Southern Elephant Seals / Ian L. Boyd, Tom A. Arnbom and Michael A. Fedak -- 7. Juvenile Survivorship of Northern Elephant Seals / Burney J. Le Boeuf, Patricia Morris and Joanne Reiter.
• 8. Life History Strategies of Female Northern Elephant Seals / William J. Sydeman and Nadav Nur -- 9. Sexual Selection and Growth in Male Northern Elephant Seals / Walter L. Clinton -- 10. Sex- and Age-Related Variation in Reproductive Effort of Northern Elephant Seals / Charles J. Deutsch, Daniel E. Crocker, Daniel P. Costa and Burney J. Le Boeuf -- 11. Diet of the Northern Elephant Seal / George A. Antonelis, Mark S. Lowry, Clifford H. Fiscus, Brent S. Stewart and Robert L. DeLong -- 12. Theory of Geolocation by Light Levels / Roger D. Hill -- 13. Variation in the Diving Pattern of Northern Elephant Seals with Age, Mass, Sex, and Reproductive Condition / Burney J. Le Boeuf -- 14. Diving Behavior of Southern Elephant Seals from Macquarie Island: An Overview / David J. Slip, Mark A. Hindell and Harry R. Burton -- 15. Developmental Aspects of Diving in Northern Elephant Seal Pups / Philip H. Thorson and Burney J. Le Boeuf.
• 16. Postbreeding Foraging Migrations of Northern Elephant Seals / Brent S. Stewart and Robert L. DeLong -- 17. Functional Analysis of Dive Types of Female Northern Elephant Seals / Tomohiro Asaga, Yasuhiko Naito, Burney J. Le Boeuf and Haruo Sakurai -- 18. Swim Speed and Dive Function in a Female Northern Elephant Seal / Daniel E. Crocker, Burney J. Le Boeuf, Yasuhiko Naito, Tomohiro Asaga and Daniel P. Costa -- 19. Apnea Tolerance in the Elephant Seal during Sleeping and Diving: Physiological Mechanisms and Correlations / Michael A. Castellini -- 20. Expenditure, Investment, and Acquisition of Energy in Southern Elephant Seals / Michael A. Fedak, Tom A. Arnbom, B. J. McConnell, C. Chambers, Ian L. Boyd, J. Harwood and T. S. McCann -- 21. Hormones and Fuel Regulation in Fasting Elephant Seals / Vicky Lee Kirby and C. Leo Ortiz -- 22. Endocrine Changes in Newborn Southern Elephant Seals / Michael M. Bryden.

ISBN

0520083644 (cloth)

LCCN

93038142

OCLC

• 29182464
• ocm29182464

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries