Search Results - "Huckstadt, Luis A."
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What difference does a century make? Shifts in the ecosystem structure of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, as evidenced from a sentinel species, the Weddell seal
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (30-08-2017)“…The arrival of humans to Antarctica's Ross Sea (100+ years ago) led to a slow, but sustained increase in human activities in the area. To investigate if human…”
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Intrinsic anti-inflammatory properties in the serum of two species of deep-diving seal
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-07-2018)“…Weddell and elephant seals are deep diving mammals, which rely on lung collapse to limit nitrogen absorption and prevent decompression injury. Repeated…”
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Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-12-2013)“…Over the last decade, several hundred seals have been equipped with conductivity‐temperature‐depth sensors in the Southern Ocean for both biological and…”
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Anterior vena caval oxygen profiles in a deep-diving California sea lion: arteriovenous shunts, a central venous oxygen store and oxygenation during lung collapse
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-01-2018)“…Deep-diving California sea lions ( ) can maintain arterial hemoglobin saturation ( ) above 90% despite lung collapse (lack of gas exchange) and extremely low…”
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Flipper stroke rate and venous oxygen levels in free-ranging California sea lions
Published in Journal of experimental biology (15-04-2017)“…The depletion rate of the blood oxygen store, development of hypoxemia and dive capacity are dependent on the distribution and rate of blood oxygen delivery to…”
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Stroke effort and relative lung volume influence heart rate in diving sea lions
Published in Journal of experimental biology (11-03-2020)“…The dive response, bradycardia (decreased heart rate) and peripheral vasoconstriction, is the key mechanism allowing breath-hold divers to perform…”
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Regional variability in diving physiology and behavior in a widely distributed air-breathing marine predator, the South American sea lion (Otaria byronia)
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-08-2016)“…Our understanding of how air-breathing marine predators cope with environmental variability is limited by our inadequate knowledge of their ecological and…”
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The extra burden of motherhood: reduced dive duration associated with pregnancy status in a deep-diving mammal, the northern elephant seal
Published in Biology letters (2005) (01-02-2018)“…The cost of pregnancy is hard to study in marine mammals, particularly in species that undergo pregnancy while diving continuously at sea such as elephant…”
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Night diving by some emperor penguins during the winter breeding period at Cape Washington
Published in Journal of experimental biology (01-01-2018)“…All through the bird literature and feature films, there is much ado about dedicated emperor penguin males fasting for 115 days while they do all the…”
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Seals and sea lions are what they eat, plus what? Determination of trophic discrimination factors for seven pinniped species
Published in Rapid communications in mass spectrometry (15-05-2016)“…Rationale Mixing models are a common method for quantifying the contribution of prey sources to the diet of an individual using stable isotope analysis;…”
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Influence of hunting strategy on foraging efficiency in Galapagos sea lions
Published in PeerJ (San Francisco, CA) (13-04-2021)“…The endangered Galapagos sea lion (GSL, ) exhibits a range of foraging strategies utilising various dive types including benthic, epipelagic and mesopelagic…”
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Latitudinal range influences the seasonal variation in the foraging behavior of marine top predators
Published in PloS one (10-08-2011)“…Non-migratory resident species should be capable of modifying their foraging behavior to accommodate changes in prey abundance and availability associated with…”
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An animal-borne active acoustic tag for minimally invasive behavioral response studies on marine mammals
Published in Animal biotelemetry (01-04-2016)“…Background There is a variety of evidence that increased anthropogenic noise (e.g., shipping, explosions, sonar) has a measureable effect on marine mammal…”
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Acceleration-triggered animal-borne videos show a dominance of fish in the diet of female northern elephant seals
Published in Journal of experimental biology (2020)“…Knowledge of the diet of marine mammals is fundamental to understanding their role in marine ecosystems and response to environmental change. Recently,…”
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Dive descent rate as a buoyancy indicator to infer body condition of Weddell seals in the Antarctic
Published in Marine mammal science (01-10-2024)“…Changes in buoyancy of marine mammals can be used to infer environmental changes. In multiple seal species, how “fast” an animal sinks reveals body condition…”
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Whiskers as hydrodynamic prey sensors in foraging seals
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-06-2022)“…The darkness of the deep ocean limits the vision of diving predators, except when prey emit bioluminescence. It is hypothesized that deep-diving seals rely on…”
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Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula
Published in Nature climate change (01-05-2020)“…Crabeater seals exhibit extreme dietary specialization, feeding almost exclusively on Antarctic krill. This specialization has inextricably linked habitat use,…”
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Chlorophyll fluorescence as measured in situ by animal-borne instruments in the northeastern Pacific Ocean
Published in Journal of marine systems (01-03-2020)“…Chlorophyll concentration in the ocean is a metric for phytoplankton biomass, which forms the base of most pelagic food webs and is a critical component of the…”
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A Dynamic State Model of Migratory Behavior and Physiology to Assess the Consequences of Environmental Variation and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Marine Vertebrates
Published in The American naturalist (01-02-2018)“…Integrating behavior and physiology is critical to formulating new hypotheses on the evolution of animal life-history strategies. Migratory capital breeders…”
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Scaling up ocean conservation through recognition of key biodiversity areas in the Southern Ocean from multispecies tracking data
Published in Conservation biology (15-08-2024)“…Biodiversity is critical for maintaining ecosystem function but is threatened by increasing anthropogenic pressures. In the Southern Ocean, a highly…”
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