Factors influencing haul-out behaviour in non-reproductive Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) at Cape Royds, Antarctica.

• Main Author: Aspinwall, Arkady Michael Tadeusz
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Cape Royds; Ross Sea; Royds; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Antarc*; Antarctica; Weddell Seal; Weddell Seals
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10092/102764; https://doi.org/10.26021/11898

The Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are a fast-ice obligate phocid that plays a pivotal role as both predator and prey within the wider Antarctic marine ecosystem. Weddell seals face an uncertain future with the threat of habitat loss and pressures of marine resource extraction from the Sout...