At-sea distribution of female southern elephant seals relative to variation in ocean surface properties

• Main Authors: Bradshaw, Corey J. A., Higgins, J., Michael, K. J., Wotherspoon, S. J., Hindell, Mark A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2004
• Subjects: bathymetry; elephant seals; environmental variation; generalized additive model; generalized linear model; oceanography; sea surface temperature; antarctic fur seals; sperm whale distribution; mirounga-leonina; oceanographic features; foraging ecology; king penguins; arctocephalus-gazella; spatial-distribution; macquarie island; polar front; Antarctic; Gam; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Elephant Seals; King Penguins; Macquarie Island; Mirounga leonina; Sea ice; Southern Elephant Seals; Sperm whale
• Online Access: http://espace.cdu.edu.au/view/cdu:1564

We examined the relationships between physical oceanography (sea surface temperature SST, sea surface height anomaly - SSH, ocean colour - OC, bathymetry - BA, sea-ice concentration - SI, and their associated gradients) and the foraging distribution (time at sea) of female southern elephant seals us...