Can Antarctic fur seals be used to monitor sea temperature at South Georgia?

• Main Authors: McCafferty, DJ, Boyd, Ian Lamont, Walker, TR, Taylor, RI
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1999
• Subjects: ANTARCTIC FUR SEALS; NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEALS; SOUTH-GEORGIA; DIVING BEHAVIOR; WATER TEMPERATURE; SUMMER 1994; ARCTOCEPHALUS-GAZELLA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRDS; ABUNDANCE; Antarctic; Bird Island; Antarc*; Antarctic Fur Seals; Arctocephalus gazella; Elephant Seals
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/can-antarctic-fur-seals-be-used-to-monitor-sea-temperature-at-south-georgia(ebd9514c-cec4-4254-9ba5-c6e67aa37cc7).html; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0344417887&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The breeding performance of higher predators has often been used to monitor fluctuations in the abundance of important prey stocks in marine ecosystems. The development of electronic data-loggers in recent years has also provided the opportunity of using wide-ranging marine animals to measure physic...