Long term movements and activity patterns of an Antarctic marine apex predator: the Leopard Seal

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Staniland, Iain, Ratcliffe, Norman, Trathan, Phil, Forcada, Jaume
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; South Orkney Islands; Bird Island; Antarc*; Leopard Seal; Leopard Seals; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517938/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/517938/1/journal.pone.0197767.pdf; http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0197767

Leopard seals are an important Antarctic apex predator that can affect marine ecosystems through local predation. Here we report on the successful use of micro geolocation logging sensor tags to track the movements, and activity, of four leopard seals for trips of between 142–446 days including one...