SGER: Foraging Patterns of Elephant Seals in the Vicinity of the WIlkins Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: Costa, Daniel Paul, Goebel, Michael
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: IEDA: US Antarctic Program Data Center 2010
• Subjects: CTD; Seals; Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems; Biology; Physical Oceanography; Southern Ocean; Biosphere; Oceans; US Antarctic Program Data Center (USAP-DC); Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Livingston Island; Wilkins; Wilkins Ice Shelf; Antarc*; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Ice Shelf; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: http://get.iedadata.org/metadata/iso/600108

Abstract: Long-lived animals such as elephant seals may endure variation in food resources over large spatial and temporal scales. Understanding how they respond to these fluctuations requires knowledge of how their foraging behavior and habitat utilization varies over time. Advances in satellite-li...