List of works by Daniel P. Costa

A Bioenergetics Approach to Understanding the Population Consequences of Disturbance: Elephant Seals as a Model System

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A bioenergetics approach to developing a population consequences of acoustic disturbance model

scientific article published in January 2012

A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries.

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A parsimonious approach to modeling animal movement data

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A profile of carbohydrate metabolites in the fasting northern elephant seal.

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Accuracy of ARGOS locations of Pinnipeds at-sea estimated using Fastloc GPS.

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Adipose Triglyceride Lipase, Not Hormone-Sensitive Lipase, Is the Primary Lipolytic Enzyme in Fasting Elephant Seals (Mirounga angustirostris).

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Aerobic dive limit: how often does it occur in nature?

scientific article published in July 2001

Amino acid composition of pinniped milk.

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An inexpensive passive acoustic system for recording and localizing wild animal sounds

scientific article published on 01 June 2000

Approaches to studying climatic change and its role on the habitat selection of antarctic pinnipeds

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Big data analyses reveal patterns and drivers of the movements of southern elephant seals

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Bimodal Winter Haul-Out Patterns of Adult Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) in the Southern Weddell Sea.

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Biological and environmental drivers of energy allocation in a dependent mammal, the Antarctic fur seal pup.

scientific article published in March 2012

Blood oxygen depletion is independent of dive function in a deep diving vertebrate, the northern elephant seal

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Brain activity of diving seals reveals short sleep cycles at depth

scientific article published on 20 April 2023

Breathing frequencies of northern elephant seals at sea and on land revealed by heart rate spectral analysis

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Chylomicron triacylglycerol fatty acids in suckling northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) resemble the composition and the distribution of fatty acids in milk fat.

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Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories

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Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota.

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Climate mediates the success of migration strategies in a marine predator

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Comparison of methods for evaluating energy expenditure of incubating wandering albatrosses.

scientific article published in November 2001

Comparisons and Uncertainty in Fat and Adipose Tissue Estimation Techniques: The Northern Elephant Seal as a Case Study

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Control of pulmonary surfactant secretion in adult California sea lions.

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Corrigendum to “Foraging behavior of lactating South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens) and spatial–temporal resource overlap with the Uruguayan fisheries” [Deep-Sea Res. II 88–89 (2013) 106–109]

scientific article published in October 2016

Cumulative human impacts on marine predators

scientific article published in January 2013

DDT in endangered Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki).

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DDT strikes back: Galapagos sea lions face increasing health risks.

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Deadly diving? Physiological and behavioural management of decompression stress in diving mammals.

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Deep-ocean foraging northern elephant seals bioaccumulate persistent organic pollutants

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Development of body oxygen stores in harbor seals: effects of age, mass, and body composition

scientific article published on 08 September 2005

Differences in foraging ecology align with genetically divergent ecotypes of a highly mobile marine top predator.

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Diving deeper into individual foraging specializations of a large marine predator, the southern sea lion.

scientific article published on September 2015

Drivers and hotspots of extinction risk in marine mammals

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Dynamic habitat models: using telemetry data to project fisheries bycatch.

scientific article published on 23 March 2011

Dynamic influence of maternal and pup traits on maternal care during lactation in an income breeder, the antarctic fur seal.

scientific article published on 6 April 2012

Ecological implications of body composition and thermal capabilities in young antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella).

scientific article published in July 2004

Effects of Age, Colony, and Sex on Mercury Concentrations in California Sea Lions.

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Effects of El Niño-driven changes in wind patterns on North Pacific albatrosses

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Effects of age, adipose percent, and reproduction on PCB concentrations and profiles in an extreme fasting North Pacific marine mammal

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Effects of allometry, productivity and lifestyle on rates and limits of body size evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2013)

Effects of forced diving on the spleen and hepatic sinus in northern elephant seal pups.

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Energy reserve utilization in northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) pups during the postweaning fast: size does matter.

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Estimates of the Southern Ocean general circulation improved by animal-borne instruments

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Estimating resource acquisition and at-sea body condition of a marine predator.

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Evaluating Hair as a Predictor of Blood Mercury: The Influence of Ontogenetic Phase and Life History in Pinnipeds.

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Evolutionary theory as a tool for predicting extinction risk.

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Extent and Magnitude of Subsurface Anomalies During the Northeast Pacific Blob as Measured by Animal‐Borne Sensors

scientific article published in 2022

Fatty acid metabolism in fasting elephant seal pups

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Fatty acid mobilization and comparison to milk fatty acid content in northern elephant seals.

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Feeding morphology and body size shape resource partitioning in an eared seal community

Field physiology: physiological insights from animals in nature.

scientific article published on January 2004

Fishing for data in the Ross Sea.

scientific article published in December 2010

Foraging behavior and success of a mesopelagic predator in the northeast Pacific Ocean: insights from a data-rich species, the northern elephant seal

scientific article published on 15 May 2012

Foraging behavior links climate variability and reproduction in North Pacific albatrosses.

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Foraging behavior of lactating South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens) and spatial–temporal resource overlap with the Uruguayan fisheries

scientific article published in 2013

Foraging strategies of a generalist marine predator inhabiting a dynamic environment.

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

scientific article published in 2021

Fractal landscape method: an alternative approach to measuring area-restricted searching behavior.

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Free-swimming northern elephant seals have low field metabolic rates that are sensitive to an increased cost of transport

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Gluconeogenesis is associated with high rates of tricarboxylic acid and pyruvate cycling in fasting northern elephant seals.

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Habitat use and spatial fidelity of male South American sea lions during the nonbreeding period.

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High fatty acid oxidation capacity and phosphorylation control despite elevated leak and reduced respiratory capacity in northern elephant seal muscle mitochondria

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

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Identifying and quantifying prey consumption using stomach temperature change in pinnipeds.

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Improving the precision of our ecosystem calipers: a modified morphometric technique for estimating marine mammal mass and body composition.

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Individual foraging strategies reveal niche overlap between endangered galapagos pinnipeds

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Interpolation of animal tracking data in a fluid environment

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Intertrip consistency in hunting behavior improves foraging success and efficiency in a marine top predator

scientific article published in 2021

Intraspecific variation in feeding strategies of Galapagos sea lions: A case of trophic specialization.

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Key Questions in Marine Megafauna Movement Ecology.

scientific article published on 12 March 2016

Latitudinal range influences the seasonal variation in the foraging behavior of marine top predators.

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

scientific article published in 2021

Localization and visual verification of a complex minke whale vocalization

scientific article (publication date: 2001)

Low Synchrony in the Breeding Cycle of Galapagos Sea Lions Revealed by Seasonal Progesterone Concentrations

scientific article published in 2009

Marine foraging ecology influences mercury bioaccumulation in deep-diving northern elephant seals.

scientific article published in July 2015

Maternal energy investment in elephant seal pups: evidence for sexual equality?

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Mating system and reproductive success in eastern Pacific harbour seals.

scientific article published in September 2006

Measurements of foraging success in a highly pelagic marine predator, the northern elephant seal.

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Mercury correlations among blood, muscle, and hair of northern elephant seals during the breeding and molting fasts.

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Migratory shearwaters integrate oceanic resources across the Pacific Ocean in an endless summer

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Milk intake and energy expenditure of free-ranging northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus, pups

scientific article published in January 2002

Mobilisation of lipophilic pollutants from blubber in northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga angustirostris) during the post-weaning fast.

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Movement and diving behavior of male California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) during anomalous oceanographic conditions of 2005 compared to those of 2004

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Multiplatform, Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Impacts of Modified Circumpolar Deep Water in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

scientific article published in 2014

Northern elephant seals adjust gliding and stroking patterns with changes in buoyancy: validation of at-sea metrics of body density.

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Oceanic controls on the mass balance of Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica

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Onboard acoustic recording from diving northern elephant seals

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One size does not always fit all: a reply to Stroud and Feeley.

scientific article published on 2 April 2015

Ontogeny of diving behaviour in the Australian sea lion: trials of adolescence in a late bloomer.

scientific article published in March 2006

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

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PCBs and DDT in the serum of juvenile California sea lions: associations with vitamins A and E and thyroid hormones.

scientific article published in March 2005

Pandemic H1N1 influenza isolated from free-ranging Northern Elephant Seals in 2010 off the central California coast

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Patterns of maximum body size evolution in Cenozoic land mammals: eco-evolutionary processes and abiotic forcing

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2014)

Polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in Galapagos sea lions (Zalophus wollebaeki).

scientific article published in November 2009

Positional analyses of triacylglycerol fatty acids in the milk fat of the antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella).

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Predator-derived bioregions in the Southern Ocean: Characteristics, drivers and representation in marine protected areas

scientific article published in August 2022

Protein catabolism in suckling and fasting northern elephant seal pups (Mirounga anglstirostris).

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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).

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Renal effects of fresh water-induced hypo-osmolality in a marine adapted seal.

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Renal function in suckling and fasting pups of the northern elephant seal

scientific article published in June 2001

Reproductive constraints influence habitat accessibility, segregation, and preference of sympatric albatross species

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Revisiting the behavioural framework of feeding in predatory aquatic mammals.

scientific article published in September 2017

Same size--same niche? Foraging niche separation between sympatric juvenile Galapagos sea lions and adult Galapagos fur seals

scientific article published on 25 January 2013

Scaling matters: incorporating body composition into Weddell seal seasonal oxygen store comparisons reveals maintenance of aerobic capacities.

scientific article published on 12 July 2015

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

scientific article published on May 2016

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

scientific article published in 2016

Serum POP concentrations are highly predictive of inner blubber concentrations at two extremes of body condition in northern elephant seals

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Shadowed by scale: subtle behavioral niche partitioning in two sympatric, tropical breeding albatross species

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Shearwater foraging in the Southern Ocean: the roles of prey availability and winds

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Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea-ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals.

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Spatial and temporal occurrence of blue whales off the U.S. West Coast, with implications for management

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Species- and sex-specific differences in foraging behaviour and foraging zones in blue-footed and brown boobies in the Gulf of California

scientific article published in 2009

Stable isotope analyses reveal individual variability in the trophic ecology of a top marine predator, the southern elephant seal.

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Stroke frequency, but not swimming speed, is related to body size in free-ranging seabirds, pinnipeds and cetaceans.

scientific article published in February 2007

Stroke volume and cardiac output in juvenile elephant seals during forced dives.

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Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa

scientific article published on June 2017

Summing the strokes: energy economy in northern elephant seals during large-scale foraging migrations.

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The comparative energetics and growth strategies of sympatric Antarctic and subantarctic fur seal pups at Iles Crozet

scientific article published on 01 December 2003

The demands of lactation promote differential regulation of lipid stores in fasting elephant seals.

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The effect of a low-frequency sound source (acoustic thermometry of the ocean climate) on the diving behavior of juvenile northern elephant seals, Mirounga angustirostris.

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The effects of handling and anesthetic agents on the stress response and carbohydrate metabolism in northern elephant seals

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The effects of water temperature on the energetic costs of juvenile and adult California sea lions (Zalophus californianus): the importance of skeletal muscle thermogenesis for thermal balance.

scientific article published in December 2009

The evolution of maximum body size of terrestrial mammals

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

scientific article published in December 2014

The maximum rate of mammal evolution

scientific article (publication date: 13 March 2012)

The retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

The role of body size in individual-based foraging strategies of a top marine predator

scientific article published in April 2010

The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean

scientific article (publication date: 5 June 2007)

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

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Time and behavioral adjustments to lactation: Insights from a marine predator

scientific article published in 2022

Time to eat: measurements of feeding behaviour in a large marine predator, the northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris.

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Top-down and bottom-up influences on demographic rates of Antarctic fur seals Arctocephalus gazella

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Total body oxygen stores and physiological diving capacity of California sea lions as a function of sex and age.

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Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Trade-offs between foraging reward and mortality risk drive sex-specific foraging strategies in sexually dimorphic northern elephant seals

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Underwater and surface behavior of homing juvenile northern elephant seals.

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Use of Anthropogenic Sea Floor Structures by Australian Fur Seals: Potential Positive Ecological Impacts of Marine Industrial Development?

scientific article published on July 2015

Using Satellite Tracking and Isotopic Information to Characterize the Impact of South American Sea Lions on Salmonid Aquaculture in Southern Chile.

scientific article published on 26 August 2015

Using energetic models to investigate the survival and reproduction of beaked whales (family Ziphiidae).

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Using satellite tracking to optimize protection of long-lived marine species: olive ridley sea turtle conservation in Central Africa

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Utilisation of intensive foraging zones by female Australian fur seals

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Validation of water flux and body composition in glaucous gulls (Larus hyperboreus).

scientific article published on 17 May 2006

Water conservation and protein metabolism in northern elephant seal pups during the postweaning fast.

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Water conservation in fasting northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris).

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Whales as marine ecosystem engineers

scholarly article by Joe Roman published in September 2014

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.

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Whiskers as hydrodynamic prey sensors in foraging seals

scientific article published in 2022

Wind, waves, and wing loading: morphological specialization may limit range expansion of endangered albatrosses

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