Dear MARMAM subscribers,
For those who may be interested, my PhD thesis entitled
‘The role of juvenile foraging ecology and growth in the evolution of
life history strategies for southern elephant seals’ is now available as
a PDF file on the web at the following web address:
http://www.cdu.edu.au/ser/IainFieldProfile.htm#Theses
(or http://adt.lib.utas.edu.au/public/adt-TU20051004.143116/)
The main keywords for the thesis are ontogeny, intra-specific
competition, life history and foraging ecology. Topics covered within this
thesis are anaesthesia, foraging range and spatial/habitat use, diet, metabolic
changes and growth of a large free-ranging marine mammal species, the southern
elephant seal, in a dynamic environment. For any further inquiries or for
reprints of publications from my thesis (listed below), please feel free to
contact me directly at the following email address:
Field
IC, Bradshaw CJA,
Field
IC, Bradshaw CJA , van den Hoff J, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2007) Age-related
shifts in the diet composition of southern elephant seals expand overall
foraging niche. Marine Biology 150: 1441-1452
Field
IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2005) Patterns of onshore mass change
and metabolism in juvenile southern elephant seals. Physiological and
Biochemical Zoology 78(4):491-504
Field
IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Sumner MD, Hindell MA (2005) Resource partitioning
through oceanic segregation of foraging juvenile southern elephant seals.
Oecologia 142:127-135
Field
IC, Bradshaw CJA, Burton HR, Hindell MA (2004) Seasonal use of oceanographic
and fisheries management zones by juvenile southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) from
Field
IC, McMahon CR, Bradshaw CJA, Harrington J, Burton HR (2002) Intravenous
anaesthesia of elephant seals: effects of age, size, condition and function of
haul-out. Veterinary Record, 151(8): 235-240
Also available is a PDF copy of my honours thesis titled ‘Diving
behaviour of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina from
Cheers for now,
Iain
Dr Iain Field
CDU / AIMS Research Fellow
Shark Tagging and Population Modelling Project
School for Environmental Research