Trends in tagging of marine mammals: a review of marine mammal biologging studies

T McIntyre - African journal of marine science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The number of scientific papers resulting from biologging instruments deployed on marine
mammals is increasing as improved technologies result in smaller devices and improved …

Adaptations to deep and prolonged diving in phocid seals

AS Blix - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
This Review focuses on the original papers that have made a difference to our thinking and
were first in describing an adaptation to diving, and less on those that later repeated the …

Circumpolar habitat use in the southern elephant seal: implications for foraging success and population trajectories

MA Hindell, CR McMahon, MN Bester, L Boehme… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the Southern Ocean, wide‐ranging predators offer the opportunity to quantify how
animals respond to differences in the environment because their behavior and population …

Southern elephant seal foraging success in relation to temperature and light conditions: insight into prey distribution

C Guinet, J Vacquié-Garcia, B Picard… - Marine Ecology …, 2014 - int-res.com
The distribution of southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina prey encounter events (PEEs)
was investigated from the foraging behaviour of 29 post-breeding females simultaneously …

Physiological tipping points in the relationship between foraging success and lifetime fitness of a long‐lived mammal

RS Beltran, KM Hernandez, R Condit… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although anthropogenic change is often gradual, the impacts on animal populations may be
precipitous if physiological processes create tipping points between energy gain …

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

C Cotté, F d'Ovidio, AC Dragon, C Guinet… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
The open ocean is a highly variable environment where marine top predators are thought to
require optimized foraging strategies to locate and capture prey. Mesoscale and sub …

Movement and diving of killer whales (Orcinus orca) at a Southern Ocean archipelago

RR Reisinger, M Keith, RD Andrews… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Eleven satellite tags were deployed on 9 killer whales at the Prince Edwards Islands in the
Southern Ocean. State-space switching models were used to generate position estimates …

Horizontal and vertical movements as predictors of foraging success in a marine predator

AC Dragon, A Bar-Hen, P Monestiez… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2012 - int-res.com
With technical advances in wildlife telemetry, the study of cryptic predators' responses to
prey distribution has been revolutionised. In the case of marine predators, high resolution …

Quasi-planktonic behavior of foraging top marine predators

A Della Penna, S De Monte, E Kestenare, C Guinet… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Monitoring marine top predators is fundamental for assessing the health and functioning of
open ocean ecosystems. Although recently tracking observations have substantially …

Elephant seal dive behaviour is influenced by ocean temperature: implications for climate change impacts on an ocean predator

T McIntyre, IJ Ansorge, H Bornemann, J Plötz… - Marine Ecology …, 2011 - int-res.com
The potential effects of ocean warming on marine predators are largely unknown, though the
impact on the distribution of prey in vertical space may have far reaching impacts on diving …