Forced into an ecological corner: Round-the-clock deep foraging on small prey by elephant seals

Lightscapes of fear: How mesopredators balance starvation and predation in the open ocean

(2021) Roxanne S. Beltran et al.   Science Advances

Acceleration-triggered animal-borne videos show a dominance of fish in the diet of female northern elephant seals

(2020) Kaori Yoshino et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The oceans’ twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late

(2020) Adrian Martin et al.   NATURE

Climate velocity reveals increasing exposure of deep-ocean biodiversity to future warming

(2020) Isaac Brito-Morales et al.   Nature Climate Change

Time Domains of Hypoxia Adaptation—Elephant Seals Stand Out Among Divers

(2019) Michael S. Tift et al.   Frontiers in Physiology

Marine top predators as climate and ecosystem sentinels

(2019) Elliott L Hazen et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Why whales are big but not bigger: Physiological drivers and ecological limits in the age of ocean giants

(2019) J. A. Goldbogen et al.   SCIENCE

Finding mesopelagic prey in a changing Southern Ocean

(2019) Clive R. McMahon et al.   Scientific Reports

High-energy, high-fat lifestyle challenges an Arctic apex predator, the polar bear

(2018) A. M. Pagano et al.   SCIENCE

Mesoscale activity facilitates energy gain in a top predator

(2018) Briana Abrahms et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Inferring prey size variation from mandible acceleration in northern elephant seals

(2018) Taiki Adachi et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Diving Behavior of Sei Whales Balaenoptera borealis Relative to the Vertical Distribution of Their Potential Prey

(2017) Midori Ishii et al.   MAMMAL STUDY

Diet of Cuvier’s beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris from the North Pacific and a comparison with their diet world-wide

(2017) KL West et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Avoidance responses of minke whales to 1–4 kHz naval sonar

(2017) Petter H. Kvadsheim et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Oxygen minimum zone: An important oceanographic habitat for deep-diving northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris

(2017) Yasuhiko Naito et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Diet of Cuvier’s beaked whales Ziphius cavirostris from the North Pacific and a comparison with their diet world-wide

(2017) KL West et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ultra-High Foraging Rates of Harbor Porpoises Make Them Vulnerable to Anthropogenic Disturbance

(2016) Danuta Maria Wisniewska et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Searching for prey in a three-dimensional environment: hierarchical movements enhance foraging success in northern elephant seals

(2016) Taiki Adachi et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Sperm whale echolocation behaviour reveals a directed, prior-based search strategy informed by prey distribution

(2015) A. Fais et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Climate change and marine vertebrates

(2015) William J. Sydeman et al.   SCIENCE

Variation in body condition during the post-moult foraging trip of southern elephant seals and its consequences on diving behaviour

(2014) G. Richard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

First Long-Term Behavioral Records from Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris) Reveal Record-Breaking Dives

(2014) Gregory S. Schorr et al.   PLoS One

The foraging benefits of being fat in a highly migratory marine mammal

(2014) T. Adachi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large mesopelagic fishes biomass and trophic efficiency in the open ocean

(2014) Xabier Irigoien et al.   Nature Communications

Unravelling the mysteries of a mesopelagic diet: a large apex predator specializes on small prey

(2013) Yasuhiko Naito et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Extreme diel variation in the feeding behavior of humpback whales along the western Antarctic Peninsula during autumn

(2013) AS Friedlaender et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

marmap: A Package for Importing, Plotting and Analyzing Bathymetric and Topographic Data in R

(2013) Eric Pante et al.   PLoS One

Foraging Behavior and Success of a Mesopelagic Predator in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Insights from a Data-Rich Species, the Northern Elephant Seal

(2012) Patrick W. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

New Insights into Pelagic Migrations: Implications for Ecology and Conservation

(2011) Daniel P. Costa et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Diving behavior of a false killer whale,Pseudorca crassidens, in the Kuroshio-Oyashio transition region and the Kuroshio front region of the western North Pacific

(2011) Shingo Minamikawa et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Three-dimensional resting behaviour of northern elephant seals: drifting like a falling leaf

(2009) Y. Mitani et al.   Biology Letters

Movements and diving behavior of pelagic spotted dolphins

(2009) Michael D. Scott et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera brydei) stable associations and dive profiles: New insights into foraging behavior

(2009) Filipe Alves et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE

Cheetahs of the deep sea: deep foraging sprints in short-finned pilot whales off Tenerife (Canary Islands)

(2008) Natacha Aguilar Soto et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

Stomach contents of mass-stranded short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) from North Carolina

(2008) Vanessa J. Mintzer et al.   MARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE