Foraging areas of southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina , as inferred from water temperature data

作者：Mark Andrew Hindell, HR Burton, David J. Slip · 发表于：Marine and Freshwater Research · 年份：1991 · DOI：10.1071/mf9910115 · 被引用次数：105 · 研究领域：Marine animal studies overview、Isotope Analysis in Ecology、Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics

Fourteen time-depth-temperature recorders were recovered from adult southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) returning to Macquarie Island to breed or moult. The resulting temperature/depth profiles indicated that all four males spent most of their time in waters lying over the Antarctic Continental Shelf, whereas only one of the ten females spent any time there. Five of the females foraged just off the Antarctic Continental Shelf. and the other five remained near the Antarctic Polar Front.