Spring diet of ringed seals (Phoca hispida)

It is expected that climate change will impact ringed seals in thenear future through changes in the distribution and nature of seaice, as well as via changes in their prey base (Kelly, 2001; Loenget al., 2005). Therefore, accurate, current assessments of diet aretimely. This study investigated the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kovacs, Kit M., Haug, Tore, Lydersen, Christian, Labansen, Aili L.
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2008
Subjects:
BIOTA
biology
EARTH SCIENCE
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES
MAMMALS
CARNIVORES
SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES
BIOSPHERE
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS
Arctic
Billefjorden
Forlandsundet
Jan Mayen
Recherchefjorden
Svalbard
Van Keulenfjorden
Wijdefjorden
Climate change
Kongsfjord*
Kongsfjorden
North Atlantic
Phoca hispida
Recherchefjord*
Wijdefjord*
Spitsbergen
walrus*
Online Access:http://data.npolar.no/dataset/dce520a7-68c1-5f30-9d60-89c489b8b9f4
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Summary:It is expected that climate change will impact ringed seals in thenear future through changes in the distribution and nature of seaice, as well as via changes in their prey base (Kelly, 2001; Loenget al., 2005). Therefore, accurate, current assessments of diet aretimely. This study investigated the spring diet of ringed seals collectedon land-fast ice at five locations in Spitsbergen, Svalbard.The geographic range of sampling, the relatively large samplesize, and the detailed biological information collected on eachseal, also allowed us to explore spatial, sex- and age-related variationin the diet of ringed seals from this region of the Arctic.

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