Energy requirements and daily food consumption of crabeater seals in the Antarctic winter pack-ice

• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS; BIOSPHERE > ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS > ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS > CONSUMPTION RATES; SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS > USE/FEEDING HABITATS; MAMMALS > CARNIVORES > SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; BATHYMETRY; CRABEATER SEALS; DENSITY; DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT USE; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS; MERTZ GLACIER POLYNYA; POLYNYA; SEA ICE; WINTER; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD SURVEYS; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; East Antarctica; Mertz Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Antarctica; Crabeater Seals; Lobodon carcinophagus; Sea ice; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/energy-requirements-daily-pack-ice/2820942

Progress Code: completed Although the most abundant of all mammalian predators in the Antarctic marine ecosystem, crabeater seals are also one of the least understood. The most fundamental question of all - how many are there? - is the focus of an extensive international collaborative program (the A...