Population status, trends and a re-examination of the hypotheses explaining the recent declines of the southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina

By C. McMahon, M. Bester, H. Burton, Mark A. Hindell, Corey J. A. Bradshaw. 2005

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Age-related shifts in the diet composition of southern elephant seals expand overall foraging niche (2007, background): “…Southern Ocean has been declining since 1950 for reasons that are still unclear (Hindell et al. 1994), although it has been suggested that this species is susceptible to changes in the availability of prey (Hindell et al. 1994; Guinet et al. 1999; Slip and Burton 1999; McMahon et al. 2003, 2005).”
Conservation status of New Zealand marine mammals (suborders Cetacea and Pinnipedia), 2009 (2010, background): “Southern elephant seals have an estimated total NZ population size of 250 260 individuals (McMahon et al. 2005) and consequently are listed as Nationally Critical.”
Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories (2016, methodology): “…population trends to seasonal habitat use We collated current estimates of population size to determine the number of southern elephant seals in the Southern Ocean and compared these numbers to those that had been published previously to determine overall rates of change (McMahon et al. 2005a).”
Paradigm lost, or is top-down forcing no longer significant in the Antarctic marine ecosystem? (2007, background): “…spp but simultaneously decreasing populations of southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina L. (Payne 1977, Priddle 1992, Reid & Croxall 2001, McMahon et al. 2005); increasing chinstrap Pygoscelis antarctica Forster but decreasing Adélie P. adeliae (Hombron & Jacquinot) penguin populations…”
Southern elephant seals from Kerguelen Islands confronted by Antarctic Sea ice. Changes in movements and in diving behaviour (2007, background): “Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) have a circumpolar distribution, breeding on sub-Antarctic Islands close to the PF and travelling large distances to forage, often in the sea-ice area (Gales and Burton, 1989; Bornemann et al., 2000; McMahon et al., 2005a ).”
Marine pelagic ecosystems: the West Antarctic Peninsula (2007, background): “…suspected for marine mammals in other Antarctic sectors (e.g. fur and southern elephant seals (Weimerskirch et al. 2003; Hucke-Gaete et al. 2004; McMahon et al. 2005) and minke whales (Branch & Butterworth 2001)), data interpretation is potentially confounded by the fact that many of these…”