Crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophaga) in the Weddell Sea during DRE1998 campaign

• Main Authors: Nachtsheim, Dominik A, Jerosch, Kerstin, Hagen, Wilhelm, Plötz, Joachim, Bornemann, Horst
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Marine Mammal Tracking; MMT; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell Sea; Austral; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Crabeater Seal; Crabeater Seals; Euphausia superba; Polar Biology; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.854842; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.854842

The crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) is the most abundant Antarctic seal and inhabits the circumpolar pack ice zone of the Southern Ocean. Until now, information on important environmental factors affecting its distribution as well as on foraging behaviour is limited. In austral summer 1998, 12...