Flexible preference of southern elephant seals for distinct mesoscale features within the Antarctic Circumpolar Current

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 131, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-58

  Cotté, Cédric ^a   d'Ovidio, Francesco ^a   Dragon, Anne Cécile ^b   Guinet, Christophe ^b   Lévy, Marina ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Elephant seal; Mesoscale; Southern ocean; Top predators

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MAMMALS; OCEAN CURRENTS;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENTS; MESOSCALE; OCEANIC CIRCULATIONS; PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STATE-SPACE MODELLING; TOP PREDATOR;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

CHLOROPHYLL; DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OPEN OCEAN; PINNIPED; PLANKTON; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY CAPTURE; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

MIROUNGA; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

EID: 84922762975     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2014.11.011     Document Type: Article

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