Long-distance movements and associated diving behaviour of ringed seals (Pusa hispida) in the eastern canadian arctic

• Published in: Arctic Science
• Main Authors: Ogloff, Wesley R., Ferguson, Steven H., Fisk, Aaron T., Marcoux, Marianne, Hussey, Nigel E., Jaworenko, Andrew, Yurkowski, David J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2021
• Subjects: Animal movements; Biotelemetry; Foraging; Marine mammal; State-space model; Arctic; Nunavut; Baffin Bay; Baffin Island; Resolute Bay; Tremblay; Tremblay Sound; Baffin; Pusa hispida
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/glierpub/275; https://doi.org/10.1139/as-2019-0042

Animal distribution and movement facilitate energy and nutrient transfer within and between regions, thus influencing ecosystem structure and function. Ringed seals (Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775)) have been observed making sustained, extensive migrations (>1000 km) in the western Canadian Arctic,...