Dispersal of female southern elephant seals and their prey consumption during the austral summer: relevance to management and oceanographic zones

By Mark A. Hindell, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, M. Sumner, Kelvin J. Michael, H. Burton. 2003

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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Distribution and diving behaviour of harp seals (Pagophilus groenlandicus) from the Greenland Sea stock (2004, background): “hooded seals (Cystophora cristata; Folkow and Blix 1999), crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophagus; Nordoy et al. 1995), harbour seals (Phoca vitulina; Thompson et al. 1989; Frost et al. 2001), northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris ;L e Boeuf et al. 1989) and southern elephant seals (M. leo”
Identifying foraging events in deep diving southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, using acceleration data loggers (2013, background): “Southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, are a large and abundant phocid predator at the top of the Southern Ocean food web (Guinet et al., 1996; Hindell et al., 2003).”
Classifying movement behaviour in relation to environmental conditions using hidden Markov models. (2009, background): “Putative behaviours identified from movement data must instead be related to physical proxies (Hindell et al. 2003; Teo, Boustany & Block 2007; Gremillet et al. 2008).”
Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals (2014, methodology): “The devices attached to the seals recorded location and attributes of dives, such as depth and velocity, during the animals’ trips to sea (e.g. Hindell et al. 2003, Thums et al. 2008).”
Stable isotopes reveal the trophic position and mesopelagic fish diet of female southern elephant seals breeding on the Kerguelen Islands (2008, background): “The southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina is the largest phocid species and its abundance and body mass make it a major consumer of marine resources in the Southern Ocean (Guinet et al. 1996, Hindell et al. 2003).”
Mesoscale eddies as foraging area of a deep-diving predator, the southern elephant seal (2010, background): “Southern elephant seals are one of the major diving predators of the Southern Ocean in terms of population size and prey consumption (Hindell et al. 2003).”
Population status, trends and a re-examination of the hypotheses explaining the recent declines of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina (2005, background): “To test this hypothesis appropriately, more data need to be collected on spatial and temporal variability in diet composition (Bradshaw et al., 2003; Hindell et al., 2003b), and there is a need to develop more comprehensive trophodynamic models that include the spatial and temporal assessments of…”
Loyalty pays: potential life history consequences of fidelity to marine foraging regions by southern elephant seals (2004, background): “We collected data on repeat foraging trips from 19 adult female southern elephant seals from Macquarie Island (NZ 26 individual foraging trips).”
Age-related shifts in the diet composition of southern elephant seals expand overall foraging niche (2007, background): “They are major consumers of biomass, primarily squid and fish (Boyd et al. 1994; Bradshaw et al. 2003; Hindell et al. 2003).”
Southern elephant seal trajectories, fronts and eddies in the Brazil/Malvinas Confluence (2006, background): “These are areas of high productivity that could attract and guide not only migrating seals, but also birds, turtles and fish (e.g., Hindell et al., 2003; Polovina et al., 2004; Sokolov et al., 2006).”
Southern elephant seal foraging success in relation to temperature and light conditions: insight into prey distribution (2014, background): “Both its abundance and body mass make the SES a major consumer of Southern Ocean (SO) marine re - sources (Guinet et al. 1996, Hindell et al. 2003).”