Habitat Utilization of Southern Ocean Seals: Foraging Behavior of Crabeater and Elephant Seals Using Novel Methods of Oceanographic Data Collection

• Main Authors: Klinck, John M, Costa, Daniel Paul, Crocker, Daniel, Goebel, Michael, Hofmann, Eileen
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2010
• Subjects: Seals; Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems; Southern Ocean; Biosphere; Oceans; Bellingshausen Sea; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarc*; Crabeater Seal; Crabeater Seals; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Lobodon carcinophagus; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600044

Abstract: As long-lived animals, marine mammals must be capable of accommodating broad variations in food resources over large spatial and temporal scales. While this is true of all marine mammals, variation in the physical and biological environmental is particularly profound in the Southern Ocean....