Food consumption and energy expenditure of free ranging southern elephant seals

• Other Authors: AADC (originator), AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia (resourceProvider)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: biota; oceans; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; EARTH SCIENCE; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; MAMMALS; CARNIVORES; CONSUMPTION RATES; BIOSPHERE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONS; ENERGETICS; FORAGING; MACQUARIE ISLAND; SEALS; SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TELEMETRY; AMD/AU; CEOS; AMD; OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN > GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; Southern Ocean; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Macquarie Island; Southern Elephant Seal; Southern Elephant Seals; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/food-consumption-energy-elephant-seals/686021; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_857; http://www.wildlifecomputers.com; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=1771; https://secure3.aad.gov.au/proms/public/projects/report_project_public.cfm?project_no=857; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/portal/download_file.cfm?file_id=4089; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=ASAC_857

Elephant seals use a suite of physiological and behavioural mechanisms to maximise the time they can be submerged. Of these hypo-metabolism is one of the most important, so this study quantified maximum O2 consumptions relative to dove depth and swim speed. From the abstract of the referenced paper:...