Southern elephant seal movements and Antarctic sea ice

• Main Authors: Bornemann, Horst, Kreyscher, M., Ramdohr, S., Martin, Torge, Carlini, A., Sellmann, L., Plötz, Joachim
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Antarctic Science; Bellingshausen Sea; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; King George Island; Mirounga leonina; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/409/; https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/409/1/Bor9999a.pdf; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.11000; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.11000.d001

Between December 1996 and February 1997, weaned pups and postmoult female elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) were fitted with satellite transmitters at King George Island (South Shetlands). Of the nine adult females tracked for more than two months, three stayed in a localized area between the South...