Taking animal tracking to new depths: Synthesizing horizontal - vertical movement relationships for four marine predators

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 417-427

  Bestley, Sophie ^a,b   Jonsen, Ian D ^c   Hindell, Mark A ^b   Harcourt, Robert G ^c   Gales, Nicholas J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella; Crabeater seal, Lobodon carcinophaga; East Antarctic; Foraging behavior; Individual movement; Marine predators; Satellite tracking; Southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina; State space model; Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddellii

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PINNIPED; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRACKING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

ANIMALIA; ARCTOCEPHALUS GAZELLA; LEPTONYCHOTES WEDDELLII; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGA; LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS; MIROUNGA LEONINA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MOVEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PINNIPEDIA;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MOVEMENT; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 84927942008     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 19399170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-0469.1     Document Type: Article

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