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Fig. 3 | Movement Ecology

Fig. 3

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

Fig. 3

Field metabolic rates of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) compared to Kleiber [43] predictions of mammalian basal metabolic rate (BMR) (dashed red line) and Boyd [12] predictions of marine mammal field metabolic rate (FMR) (dashed grey line), as a function of mass. Compared to seals during their short migration, seals of similar average body mass had 23 % lower FMRs during the long migration according to the equation FMR*LT = 5818 M0.26

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Movement Ecology

ISSN: 2051-3933