Unraveling individual and environmental drivers of variation among elephant seals - Livestream

Environmental variation across temporal and spatial scales shapes individual differences in traits and causes resource acquisition and allocation to fluctuate dramatically. Spotlighting northern elephant seals as a model system, Roxanne and research technician Conner Hale will discuss how the Beltran Lab combines mark-recapture methods and animal-borne sensors to investigate how individual variation contributes to population persistence. They will highlight how the lab group's research advances the understanding of individual-environment interactions and how it can be used to test and refine ecological theory. Please join us for some cutting edge science and an even greater appreciation for elephant seals - they have a lot to tell us!

Speaker: Roxanne Beltran, UC Santa Cruz

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