Post weaning dispersal and survival in the southern elephant seal

The objectives for this project were: The project aims to quantify the patterns of dispersal and survival of newly weaned southern elephant seal pups to provide information on position at sea and foraging behaviour of the pups once they leave Macquarie Island, and to examine how this is related to p...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: BURTON, HARRY (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BURTON, HARRY (processor), Australian Antarctic Data Centre (publisher)
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Subjects:
biota
oceans
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
MAMMALS
POST-BREEDING PERIODS
BIOSPHERE
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS
RANGE CHANGES
SURVIVAL RATES
SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
CARNIVORES
AGE CLASS
BACK FAT
BODY WATER
DATE
ELEPHANT SEAL
FLIPPER
LENGTH
LOCATION
MACQUARIE ISLAND
SEAL NUMBER
SEX
SIZE
SOUTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL
SOUTHERN OCEAN
STATUS
TDR
TIME DEPTH RECORDER
WEIGHT
FIELD SURVEYS
OCEAN &gt
SOUTHERN OCEAN &gt
GEOGRAPHIC REGION &gt
POLAR
Antarctic
Campbell Plateau
Southern Ocean
Antarc*
Elephant Seal
Macquarie Island
Southern Elephant Seal
walrus*
Online Access:https://researchdata.ands.org.au/post-weaning-dispersal-elephant-seal/700325
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/ASAC_862
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536
Description
Summary:The objectives for this project were: The project aims to quantify the patterns of dispersal and survival of newly weaned southern elephant seal pups to provide information on position at sea and foraging behaviour of the pups once they leave Macquarie Island, and to examine how this is related to position at sea and foraging behaviour in the second year. This information will be used to test the hypothesis that first year survival is a consequence of the young animals exploiting different foraging grounds to adults, and that fishing activity on the Campbell Plateau may be a contributing factor. In addition, stable isotope analysis and fatty acid signature analysis will be used to examine differences in foraging behaviour from animals while they are at sea. The raw data from this project is added to the long term database described by the metadata records 'Macquarie Island Elephant Seal Populations 1950-1965', and 'Macquarie Island Elephant Seal Populations 1985 Onwards'. This database has been taken offline, however. A snapshot of the database was taken in January, 1995, and is linked at the provided URL. For access, contact the Australian Antarctic Data Centre. A number of papers have been produced from this project. Some of these papers are included in the reference section below. The data collected for the database is as follows: Seal Number Status (new or resight) Date Location Age Class Status (cow, beachmaster, pregnant cow, dead etc) Sex Weight Length Size Back Fat Flipper Body Water Time Depth Recorder

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