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Overview

Daniel E. Crocker is a researcher affiliated with Sonoma State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a notable emphasis on the study of marine animals and their physiological and ecological adaptations.

Their research spans multiple fields including Ecology, Molecular Biology, Atmosphere Science, and Physiology. Key areas of investigation include physiological and biochemical adaptations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, as well as adipose tissue and metabolism. The behavioral aspects of animals, particularly in relation to reproduction and ecology, are also significant components of their work.

Frequent co-authors in Crocker's publications include Daniel P. Costa, José Pablo Vázquez-Medina, Jane Khudyakov, Rachel R. Holser, and Julia María Torres-Velarde. These collaborations suggest an extensive network within the marine biology and physiology research communities.

Crocker has published in several academic venues, with repeated appearances in The FASEB Journal and Physiology, each featuring seven of their works. Other notable publication outlets include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Marine Science, and the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

Some of their recent papers cover a variety of topics related to marine ecology and animal physiology:

  • "Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula" (2020, Nature Climate Change)
  • "Brain activity of diving seals reveals short sleep cycles at depth" (2023, Science)
  • "Lightscapes of fear: How mesopredators balance starvation and predation in the open ocean" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Mismatches in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and marine protected areas" (2022, Frontiers in Marine Science)
  • "Trade-offs between foraging reward and mortality risk drive sex-specific foraging strategies in sexually dimorphic northern elephant seals" (2022, Royal Society Open Science)

Best Publications

  • FORAGING ECOLOGY OF NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS

    B. J. Le Boeuf;D. E. Crocker;D. P. Costa;S. B. Blackwell

  • Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions.

    M. Biuw;L. Boehme;C. Guinet;M. Hindell

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

    Daniel P. Costa;Patrick W. Robinson;John P. Y. Arnould;Autumn-Lynn Harrison

  • Foraging Behavior and Success of a Mesopelagic Predator in the Northeast Pacific Ocean: Insights from a Data-Rich Species, the Northern Elephant Seal

    Patrick W. Robinson;Daniel P. Costa;Daniel E. Crocker;Juan Pablo Gallo-Reynoso

  • Interpolation of animal tracking data in a fluid environment.

    Yann Tremblay;Scott A. Shaffer;Shannon L. Fowler;Carey E. Kuhn

  • MATERNAL TRAITS AND REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT IN NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS

    Daniel E. Crocker;Jeannine D. Williams;Daniel P. Costa;Burney J. Le Boeuf

  • Drift diving in female northern elephant seals: implications for food processing

    Daniel E. Crocker;Burney J. Le Boeuf;Daniel P. Costa

  • Effects of buoyancy on the diving behavior of northern elephant seals.

    P M Webb;D E Crocker;S B Blackwell;D P Costa

  • Autonomous Pinniped Environmental Samplers: Using Instrumented Animals as Oceanographic Data Collectors

    George W. Boehlert;Daniel P. Costa;Daniel E. Crocker;Phaedra Green

  • Swim speed in a female northern elephant seal: metabolic and foraging implications

    Burney J. Le Boeuf;Yasuhiko Naito;Tomohiro Asaga;Daniel Crocker

  • Approaches to Studying Climatic Change and its Role on the Habitat Selection of Antarctic Pinnipeds

    Daniel P. Costa;Luis A. Huckstadt;Daniel E. Crocker;Birgitte I. McDonald

  • Stress physiology in marine mammals: how well do they fit the terrestrial model?

    Shannon Atkinson;Daniel Crocker;Dorian Houser;Kendall Mashburn

  • Diving behavior of juvenile northern elephant seals

    Burney J. Le Boeuf;Patricia A. Morris;Susanna B. Blackwell;Daniel E. Crocker

  • Winter habitat use and foraging behavior of crabeater seals along the Western Antarctic Peninsula

    Jennifer M. Burns;Daniel P. Costa;Michael A. Fedak;Mark A. Hindell

  • Impact of El Nino on the foraging behavior of female northern elephant seals

    Daniel E. Crocker;Daniel P. Costa;Burney J. Le Boeuf;Paul M. Webb

  • Sex differences in diving and foraging behaviour of northern elephant seals

    B. J. Le Boeuf;D. E. Crocker;S. B. Blackwell;P. A. Morris

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

    Carey E. Kuhn;Carey E. Kuhn;Daniel E. Crocker;Yann Tremblay;Daniel P. Costa

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

    L. A. Hückstädt;P. L. Koch;B. I. McDonald;M. E. Goebel

  • Swimming speed and foraging strategies of New Zealand sea lions (Phocarctos hookeri)

    D. E. Crocker;N. J. Gales;D. P. Costa

  • Protein catabolism and renal function in lactating northern elephant seals.

    D E Crocker;P M Webb;D P Costa;B J Le Boeuf

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel P. Costa
Daniel P. Costa University of California, Santa Cruz
Burney J. Le Boeuf
Burney J. Le Boeuf University of California, Santa Cruz
Krishna Das
Krishna Das University of Liège
Scott A. Shaffer
Scott A. Shaffer San Jose State University
Henry Jay Forman
Henry Jay Forman University of Southern California
Yann Tremblay
Yann Tremblay Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Adrian Covaci
Adrian Covaci University of Antwerp
Michael A. Fedak
Michael A. Fedak University of St Andrews
Gilles Lepoint
Gilles Lepoint University of Liège
Yasuhiko Naito
Yasuhiko Naito National Institute of Polar Research

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