Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula
Elephant Island (EI) is uniquely placed to provide southern elephant seals (SES) breeding there with potential access to foraging grounds in the Weddell Sea, the frontal zones of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Patagonian shelf and the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Quantifying where seals from EI...
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ftconicet:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/83131 2023-10-09T21:47:15+02:00 Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula Muelbert, Monica M. C. de Souza, Ronald B. Lewis, Mirtha Noemi Hindell, Mark A. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/11336/83131 eng eng Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064512000951 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.07.009 http://hdl.handle.net/11336/83131 Muelbert, Monica M. C.; de Souza, Ronald B.; Lewis, Mirtha Noemi; Hindell, Mark A.; Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula; Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd; Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography; 88-89; 4-2013; 47-60 0967-0645 CONICET Digital CONICET info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/ Bathymetry Continental Shelves Foraging Behaviour Mirounga Leonina Polar Fronts Telemetry Temporal Distribution https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion ftconicet https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.07.009 2023-09-24T19:47:15Z Elephant Island (EI) is uniquely placed to provide southern elephant seals (SES) breeding there with potential access to foraging grounds in the Weddell Sea, the frontal zones of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Patagonian shelf and the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Quantifying where seals from EI forage therefore provides insights into the types of important habitats available, and which are of particular importance to elephant seals. Twenty nine SES (5 sub-adult males-SAM and 24 adult females-AF) were equipped with SMRU CTD-SLDRs during the post-breeding (PB 2008, 2009) and post-moulting (PM 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) trips to sea. There were striking intra-annual and inter-sex differences in foraging areas, with most of the PB females remaining within 150. km of EI. One PB AF travelled down the WAP as did 16 out of the 20 PM females and foraged near the winter ice-edge. Most PM sub-adult males remained close to EI, in areas similar to those used by adult females several months earlier, although one SAM spent the early part of the winter foraging on the Patagonian Shelf. The waters of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) contain abundant resources to support the majority of the Islands' SES for the summer and early winter, such that the animals from this population have shorter migrations than those from most other populations. Sub-adult males and PB females are certainly taking advantage of these resources. However, PM females did not remain there over the winter months, instead they used the same waters at the ice-edge in the southern WAP that females from both King George Island and South Georgia used. Females made more benthic dives than sub-adult males-again this contrasts with other sites where SAMs do more benthic diving. Unlike most other populations studied to date EI is a relatively southerly breeding colony located on the Antarctic continental shelf. EI seals are using shelf habitats more than other SES populations but some individuals still employ open water foraging strategies. Sea-ice was also ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Elephant Island Elephant Seals King George Island Mirounga leonina Sea ice South Atlantic Ocean Southern Elephant Seals Weddell Sea CONICET Digital (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Weddell Sea King George Island Weddell Elephant Island ENVELOPE(-55.184,-55.184,-61.085,-61.085) Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 88-89 47 60 |
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Bathymetry Continental Shelves Foraging Behaviour Mirounga Leonina Polar Fronts Telemetry Temporal Distribution https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 Muelbert, Monica M. C. de Souza, Ronald B. Lewis, Mirtha Noemi Hindell, Mark A. Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
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Elephant Island (EI) is uniquely placed to provide southern elephant seals (SES) breeding there with potential access to foraging grounds in the Weddell Sea, the frontal zones of the South Atlantic Ocean, the Patagonian shelf and the Western Antarctic Peninsula (WAP). Quantifying where seals from EI forage therefore provides insights into the types of important habitats available, and which are of particular importance to elephant seals. Twenty nine SES (5 sub-adult males-SAM and 24 adult females-AF) were equipped with SMRU CTD-SLDRs during the post-breeding (PB 2008, 2009) and post-moulting (PM 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) trips to sea. There were striking intra-annual and inter-sex differences in foraging areas, with most of the PB females remaining within 150. km of EI. One PB AF travelled down the WAP as did 16 out of the 20 PM females and foraged near the winter ice-edge. Most PM sub-adult males remained close to EI, in areas similar to those used by adult females several months earlier, although one SAM spent the early part of the winter foraging on the Patagonian Shelf. The waters of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula (NAP) contain abundant resources to support the majority of the Islands' SES for the summer and early winter, such that the animals from this population have shorter migrations than those from most other populations. Sub-adult males and PB females are certainly taking advantage of these resources. However, PM females did not remain there over the winter months, instead they used the same waters at the ice-edge in the southern WAP that females from both King George Island and South Georgia used. Females made more benthic dives than sub-adult males-again this contrasts with other sites where SAMs do more benthic diving. Unlike most other populations studied to date EI is a relatively southerly breeding colony located on the Antarctic continental shelf. EI seals are using shelf habitats more than other SES populations but some individuals still employ open water foraging strategies. Sea-ice was also ... |
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Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
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Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
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Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
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Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
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Foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, from the Northern Antarctic Peninsula |
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foraging habitats of southern elephant seals, mirounga leonina, from the northern antarctic peninsula |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Elephant Island Elephant Seals King George Island Mirounga leonina Sea ice South Atlantic Ocean Southern Elephant Seals Weddell Sea |
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