Identifying foraging events in deep diving southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, using acceleration data loggers

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 88-89, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-22

  Gallon, S ^a   Bailleul, F ^b   Charrassin, J B ^c   Guinet, C ^b   Bost, C A ^b   Handrich, Y ^d   Hindell, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SUBATOMIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Diving behaviour; Kerguelen island; Marine ecology; Mirounga leonina; Predator prey interactions

Indexed keywords

DIVING BEHAVIOUR; KERGUELEN ISLAND; MARINE ECOLOGY; MIROUNGA LEONINA; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ACCELEROMETERS; LANDFORMS; PROFITABILITY;

MAMMALS;

ACCELEROMETER; DATA SET; DIVING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LINEARITY; PINNIPED; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; TRANSLOCATION;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 84875613032     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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