Deep divers in shallow seas: Southern elephant seals on the Patagonian shelf

• Language: unknown
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Continental shelf; Elephant seals; Patagonia; Bathymetry; Ecosystems; Phytoplankton; Seawater; Phytoplankton concentrations; Marine biology; chlorophyll a; diel migration; diving; foraging behavior; habitat selection; pinniped; predator; shallow water; shelf break; Argentina; Argentine Basin; Atlantic Ocean; Chubut; Patagonian Shelf; South America; Valdes Peninsula; Mirounga; Mirounga leonina; Argentine; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_09670637_v54_n10_p1792_Campagna; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_09670637_v54_n10_p1792_Campagna

Elephant seals are wide-ranging, pelagic, deep-diving (average of 400-600 m) predators that typically travel to open waters and continental shelf edges thousands of kilometers from their land breeding colonies. We report a less common pattern of foraging in the shallow waters of a continental shelf....