Big data analyses reveal patterns and drivers of the movements of southern elephant seals

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Rodríguez, J. P., Fernández-Gracia, Juan, Thums, Michele, Hindell, Mark A., Sequeira, Ana M. M., Meekan, Mark G., Costa, Daniel P., Guinet, Christophe, Harcourt, R., McMahon, Clive R., Muelbert, Monica, Duarte, Carlos M., Eguíluz, V. M.
• Other Authors: Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) Division, Marine Science Program, Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), E07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. [e-mail]., Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC (CSIC-UIB), E07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain., Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA., Australian Institute of Marine Science, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, University of Western Australia (M470), 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia., School of Zoology, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 05, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia., IOMRC and The UWA Oceans Institute, School of Animal Biology, University of Western Australia, M470, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia., Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, 95060, USA., Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372 CNRS-Université de La Rochelle, 79360, Villiers-en-Bois, France., Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia., Sydney Institute of Marine Science, 19 Chowder Bay Road, Mosman, New South Wales, 2088, Australia., Instituto de Oceanografia, Caixa Postal 474, 96201-900, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer Nature 2017
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Australian Antarctic Division; Elephant Seals; Macquarie Island; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622995; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00165-0

The growing number of large databases of animal tracking provides an opportunity for analyses of movement patterns at the scales of populations and even species. We used analytical approaches, developed to cope with Data from Macquarie Island, Davis and Casey Stations was sourced from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure, supported by Australian Government. The Australian Antarctic Division provided logistical support for those deployments. A.M.M.S. was supported by an IOMRC (UWA/AIMS/CSIRO) collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowship (Australia) and by ARC grant DE170100841; J.P.R. acknowledges support by the FPU program of MECD (Spain); J.F.G. is supported by NIH grant U54GM088558-06 (Lipsitch); M.M. acknowledges support from CNPq; V.M.E. acknowledges support from SPASIMM (FIS2016-80067-P (AEI/FEDER, UE)). Research reported in this publication was supported by research funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).