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Elephant seals as sentinels of the ongoing changes affecting the Southern Ocean: Disentangling environmental and maternal effects on pup size and body condition Science of the Total Environment, 2025
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The weaning mass of southern elephant seal pups (Mirounga leonina) is a key predictor of their first-year survival probability. However, variations in pup morphometric characteristics (length, mass and body condition i.e. the residual of the allometric relationship between log(mass) and log(length))…