The importance of oceanographic fronts to marine birds and mammals of the southern oceans

CA Bost, C Cotté, F Bailleul, Y Cherel… - Journal of Marine …, 2009 - Elsevier
During the last 30 years, at-sea studies of seabirds and marine mammals in the oceans
south of the Subtropical Front have described an association with major frontal areas. More …

On the Front Line: frontal zones as priority at‐sea conservation areas for mobile marine vertebrates

KL Scales, PI Miller, LA Hawkes… - Journal of Applied …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying priority areas for marine vertebrate conservation is complex because species of
conservation concern are highly mobile, inhabit dynamic habitats and are difficult to monitor …

Classifying movement behaviour in relation to environmental conditions using hidden Markov models

TA Patterson, M Basson, MV Bravington… - Journal of Animal …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Linking the movement and behaviour of animals to their environment is a central problem in
ecology. Through the use of electronic tagging and tracking (ETT), collection of in situ data …

Foraging behavior and success of a mesopelagic predator in the northeast Pacific Ocean: insights from a data-rich species, the northern elephant seal

PW Robinson, DP Costa, DE Crocker… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The mesopelagic zone of the northeast Pacific Ocean is an important foraging habitat for
many predators, yet few studies have addressed the factors driving basin-scale predator …

[BOOK][B] Biogeographic atlas of the Southern Ocean

C De Broyer, P Koubbi, H Griffiths, SA Grant - 2014 - core.ac.uk
The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

Biogeographic patterns of fish

G Duhamel, PA Hulley, R Causse, P Koubbi, M Vacchi… - 2014 - nora.nerc.ac.uk
The isolation of the Southern Ocean after the opening of Drake Passage some 23–25 million
years ago, the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the subsequent cooling of the …

The effect of climate change on the escape kinematics and performance of fishes: implications for future predator–prey interactions

P Domenici, BJM Allan, C Lefrançois… - Conservation …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Climate change can have a pronounced impact on the physiology and behaviour of fishes.
Notably, many climate change stressors, such as global warming, hypoxia and ocean …

Southern Ocean frontal structure and sea-ice formation rates revealed by elephant seals

JB Charrassin, M Hindell, SR Rintoul… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Polar regions are particularly sensitive to climate change, with the potential for significant
feedbacks between ocean circulation, sea ice, and the ocean carbon cycle. However, the …

Approaches to studying climatic change and its role on the habitat selection of Antarctic pinnipeds

DP Costa, LA Huckstadt, DE Crocker… - Integrative and …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Top predators integrate resources over time and space, and depending on the particular
species they represent, different components of the marine environment. The habitat …

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 …