Southern elephant seal vagrants in Ecuador: a symptom of La Niña events?

• Published in: Marine Biodiversity Records
• Main Authors: Páez-Rosas, Diego, Riofrío-Lazo, Marjorie, Ortega, Jorge, Morales, Juan de Dios, Carvajal, Raúl, Alava, Juan J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2018
• Subjects: Mirounga leonina; Southern elephant seal; Extralimital movement; Gulf of Guayaquil; Ecuador; La Niña; Guayaquil; Pacific; Elephant Seal; Elephant Seals; Southern Elephant Seal
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/66331; https://doi.org/10.1186/s41200-018-0149-y

Background: Extralimital observations of pinnipeds are important to understand the effects of changing climates on our oceans and the distribution of these species. The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is a known vagrant species that moves over long distances. We report three new records of...