Dive depth and dive duration data of subadult and adult, male and female southern elephant seals from Marion Island between 2004 and 2008 with links to datasets

• Main Authors: McIntyre, Trevor, Tosh, Cheryl Ann, Plötz, Joachim, Bornemann, Horst, Bester, Marthán Nieuwoudt
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: MAR2004; MAR2004_sel_a_f_10; MAR2004_sel_s_m_17; MAR2004_sel_u_m_09; MAR2004_sel_y_m_16; MAR2005; MAR2005_sel_a_f_06; MAR2005_sel_s_m_02; MAR2005_sel_s_m_03; MAR2005_sel_s_m_05; MAR2006; MAR2006_sel_s_f_01; MAR2006_sel_s_f_02; MAR2006_sel_s_m_03; MAR2006_sel_s_m_04; MAR2007; MAR2007_sel_a_f_02; MAR2007_sel_a_f_03; MAR2007_sel_a_f_04; MAR2007_sel_a_f_06; MAR2007_sel_a_f_16; MAR2007_sel_a_f_17; MAR2007_sel_a_f_18; MAR2007_sel_a_f_19; MAR2007_sel_a_f_20; MAR2007_sel_a_f_21; MAR2007_sel_a_f_22; MAR2007_sel_a_m_10; MAR2007_sel_a_m_11; MAR2007_sel_a_m_12; MAR2007_sel_a_m_13; MAR2007_sel_a_m_14; MAR2007_sel_a_m_15; MAR2007_sel_a_m_23; MAR2008; MAR2008_sel_a_f_07; MAR2008_sel_a_f_08; MAR2008_sel_a_f_09; MAR2008_sel_a_f_10; MAR2008_sel_a_f_11; MAR2008_sel_a_f_12; MAR2008_sel_a_f_13; MAR2008_sel_a_f_14; MAR2008_sel_a_f_15; MAR2008_sel_a_f_16; MAR2008_sel_a_f_17; MAR2008_sel_a_f_18; MAR2008_sel_a_f_21; MAR2008_sel_a_f_22; MAR2008_sel_a_f_23; Elephant Seals; Marion Island; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.800426; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.800426

Sexual segregation in habitat use occurs in a number of animal species, including southern elephant seals, where differences in migration localities and dive behaviour between sexes have been recorded. Due to the extreme sexual size dimorphism exhibited by southern elephant seals, it is unclear whet...