At surface behaviour at location on spot of southern elephant seals from Marion Island in 2004 with links to datasets

• Main Authors: Tosh, Cheryl Ann, de Bruyn, P J Nico, Steyn, Jumari, Bornemann, Horst, van den Hoff, John, Stewart, Brent S, Plötz, Joachim, Bester, Marthán Nieuwoudt
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: MAR2004; MAR2004_sel_u_f_05; MAR2004_sel_u_f_11; MAR2004_sel_u_m_09; MAR2004_sel_u_m_21; MAR2004_sel_y_f_04; MAR2004_sel_y_f_08; MAR2004_sel_y_f_12; MAR2004_sel_y_f_13; MAR2004_sel_y_m_14; Marine endotherm; Marine Mammal Tracking; Marion Island Research Station; MET; MMT; Southern Ocean - Indian sector; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Indian; Antarc*; Elephant Seals; Marion Island; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.150015; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.150015

A novel classification system was applied to the sea level anomaly (SLA) environment around Marion Island. We classified the SLA seascape into habitat types and calculated percentage of habitat use of ten juvenile southern elephant seals (SES). Movements were compared to SLA and SLA slope values ind...