Environmental heterogeneity plays a bigger role than diet quality in driving divergent California sea lion population trends

• Ana Lucía Pozas-Franco ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: apozasfr@sfu.ca

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9532-0124

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• David A. S. Rosen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David A. S. Rosen, Andrew W. Trites, Claudia J. Hernández-Camacho

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Andrew W. Trites ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: David A. S. Rosen, Andrew W. Trites, Claudia J. Hernández-Camacho

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Marine Mammal Research Unit, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Francisco J. García-Rodríguez ,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ This author contributed to this work and provided data.

  Affiliation Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México

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• Claudia J. Hernández-Camacho

  Contributed equally to this work with: David A. S. Rosen, Andrew W. Trites, Claudia J. Hernández-Camacho

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México

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