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Summer diving and haul‐out behavior of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) near mesopredator breeding colonies at Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula
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2016
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Source: Marine Mammal Science, 32(3), 839-867
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Journal Title:Marine Mammal Science
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Description:Leopard seals are conspicuous apex predators in Antarctic coastal ecosystems, yet their foraging ecology is poorly understood. Historically, the ecology of diving ver- tebrates has been studied using high-resolution time-depth records; however, to date such data have not been available for leopard seals. Twenty-one time-depth recorders were deployed on seasonally resident adult females in January and February between 2008 and 2014. The average deployment length was 13.65 /C611.45 d and 40,308
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Source:Marine Mammal Science, 32(3), 839-867
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ISSN:0824-0469;1748-7692;
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Rights Information:CC BY-NC
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