Environmental changes (a type of disturbance) are altering the habitat of southern elephant
seals Mirounga leonina, an apex marine predator in the Southern Ocean. As a result …

Understanding divergent biological responses to climate change is important for predicting
ecosystem level consequences. We use species habitat models to predict the winter …

Maternal and physical factors play a significant role in animal life-history variability, which
means that large scale climate change has the potential to affect the size and dynamics of …

Like many species, movement patterns of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are
being influenced by long‐term environmental change. These seals migrate up to 4,000 km …

Understanding the cryptic lives of wide–ranging wild animals such as seals can be
challenging, but with the advent of miniaturised telemetry and data–logging devices this is …

Although anthropogenic change is often gradual, the impacts on animal populations may be
precipitous if physiological processes create tipping points between energy gain …

As the effects of regional climate change are most pronounced at polar latitudes, we might
expect polar-ward migratory populations to respond as habitat suitability changes. The …

The dynamics of animal populations are determined by several key demographic
parameters, which vary over time with resultant changes in the status of the population …

Choices made by foraging animals should maximize energy intake, although 'irrational'short-
term behaviours are common. One explanation for this is that environmental variation may …

Summary 1 Numerical models that predict trophic structure require both accurate information
on prey consumption rates and estimates of spatial and temporal variation. In the Southern …