Spatial utilisation of fast-ice by Weddell seals Leptonychotes weddelli during winter

Ecography

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 295-306

  Lake, Samantha ^a   Wotherspoon, Simon ^a   Burton, Harry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACK ICE; PINNIPED; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC; EAST ANTARCTICA; VESTFOLD HILLS; WORLD;

LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 20444455912     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2005.03949.x     Document Type: Article

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