Leopard seal diets in a rapidly warming polar region vary by year, season, sex, and body size

Food caching by a marine apex predator, the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx)

(2019) Douglas J. Krause et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Using sea-ice to calibrate a dynamic trophic model for the Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2019) Adrian Dahood et al.   PLoS One

A rare observation of group prey processing in wild leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx)

(2019) James R. Robbins et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Analyzing mixing systems using a new generation of Bayesian tracer mixing models

(2018) Brian C. Stock et al.   PeerJ

Changes in California sea lion diet during a period of substantial climate variability

(2018) Heather Robinson et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Selecting the best stable isotope mixing model to estimate grizzly bear diets in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

(2017) John B. Hopkins et al.   PLoS One

Unifying error structures in commonly used biotracer mixing models

(2016) Brian C. Stock et al.   ECOLOGY

Vertical fatty acid composition in the blubber of leopard seals and the implications for dietary analysis

(2016) A.I. Guerrero et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Summer diving and haul-out behavior of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) near mesopredator breeding colonies at Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula

(2016) Douglas J. Krause et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Seals and sea lions are what they eat, plus what? Determination of trophic discrimination factors for seven pinniped species

(2016) Roxanne S. Beltran et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Calibrating the time span of longitudinal biomarkers in vertebrate tissues when fine-scale growth records are unavailable

(2016) Tracey L. Rogers et al.   Ecosphere

Spatial patterns in activity of leopard seals Hydrurga leptonyx in relation to sea ice

(2015) J Meade et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

A safer protocol for field immobilization of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx)

(2015) Nicola Pussini et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

From video recordings to whisker stable isotopes: a critical evaluation of timescale in assessing individual foraging specialisation in Australian fur seals

(2015) Laëtitia Kernaléguen et al.   OECOLOGIA

Spatial patterns in activity of leopard seals Hydrurga leptonyx in relation to sea ice

(2015) J Meade et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Best practices for use of stable isotope mixing models in food-web studies

(2014) Donald L. Phillips et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Stable isotopes reveal rail-associated behavior in a threatened carnivore

(2014) John B. Hopkins et al.   ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES

The effects of sex, tissue type, and dietary components on stable isotope discrimination factors (Δ13C and Δ15N) in mammalian omnivores

(2014) Carolyn M. Kurle et al.   ISOTOPES IN ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH STUDIES

West Antarctic Peninsula: An Ice-Dependent Coastal Marine Ecosystem in Transition

(2013) Hugh Ducklow et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Responses of Antarctic pack-ice seals to environmental change and increasing krill fishing

(2012) Jaume Forcada et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Converting isotope values to diet composition: the use of mixing models

(2012) Donald L. Phillips   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Diet of a specialist in a changing environment: the crabeater seal along the western Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) LA Hückstädt et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Estimating the Diets of Animals Using Stable Isotopes and a Comprehensive Bayesian Mixing Model

(2012) John B. Hopkins et al.   PLoS One

The fishery for Antarctic krill - recent developments

(2011) Stephen Nicol et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Temporal and spatial variation in the δ15N and δ13C values of fish and squid from Alaskan waters

(2011) Carolyn M. Kurle et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Integrating Stomach Content and Stable Isotope Analyses to Quantify the Diets of Pygoscelid Penguins

(2011) Michael J. Polito et al.   PLoS One

Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth

(2011) James A. Estes et al.   SCIENCE

Gut contents and stable isotope analyses of the Antarctic fish, Notothenia coriiceps (Richardson), from two macroalgal communities

(2010) Jill P. Zamzow et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Recent Bayesian stable-isotope mixing models are highly sensitive to variation in discrimination factors

(2010) Alexander L. Bond et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Including Source Uncertainty and Prior Information in the Analysis of Stable Isotope Mixing Models

(2010) Eric J. Ward et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Investigating the use of stable isotope analysis of milk to infer seasonal trends in the diets and foraging habitats of female Antarctic fur seals

(2010) Michael J. Polito et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Source Partitioning Using Stable Isotopes: Coping with Too Much Variation

(2010) Andrew C. Parnell et al.   PLoS One

Food transit times in captive leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx)

(2010) Sophie Hall-Aspland et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Antarctic sea ice change and variability – Physical and ecological implications

(2010) Robert A. Massom et al.   Polar Science

Interpreting temporal variation in omnivore foraging ecology via stable isotope modelling

(2009) Carolyn M. Kurle   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Incorporating uncertainty and prior information into stable isotope mixing models

(2008) Jonathan W. Moore et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stable isotopes reveal the trophic position and mesopelagic fish diet of female southern elephant seals breeding on the Kerguelen Islands

(2008) Y Cherel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Diet of the Leopard Seal Hydrurga leptonyx at the Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula

(2008) R. Casaux et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Introduced rats indirectly change marine rocky intertidal communities from algae- to invertebrate-dominated

(2008) C. M. Kurle et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA