Elephant seal foraging dives do indeed track prey distribution, but temperature influences the distribution of prey: Reply to Boersch-Supan et al. (2012)

• Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
• Main Authors: McIntyre, Trevor, Ansorge, I.J., Bornemann, Horst, Plötz, Joachim, Tosh, C. A., Bester, M. N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: INTER-RESEARCH 2012
• Subjects: McIntyre; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Mirounga leonina; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/30981/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39868

McIntyre et al. (2011a; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 441:257-272) illustrated a number of relationships between environmental variables and the dive behaviour of satellite-tracked southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina. One of these associations was that seals tended to increase their dive depths and spend l...