Animal borne ocean sensors–AniBOS–An essential component of the global ocean observing system

CR McMahon, F Roquet, S Baudel… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine animals equipped with biological and physical electronic sensors have produced
long-term data streams on key marine environmental variables, hydrography, animal …

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 …

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 …

Linking foraging behaviour to physical oceanographic structures: Southern elephant seals and mesoscale eddies east of Kerguelen Islands

AC Dragon, P Monestiez, A Bar-Hen, C Guinet - Progress in Oceanography, 2010 - Elsevier
In the Southern Ocean, mesoscale features, such as fronts and eddies, have been shown to
have a significant impact in structuring and enhancing primary productivity. They are …

Stable isotope analyses reveal individual variability in the trophic ecology of a top marine predator, the southern elephant seal

LA Hückstädt, PL Koch, BI McDonald, ME Goebel… - Oecologia, 2012 - Springer
Identifying individuals' foraging strategies is critical to understanding the ecology of a
species, and can provide the means to predict possible ecological responses to …

Mesoscale eddies as foraging area of a deep-diving predator, the southern elephant seal

F Bailleul, C Cotté, C Guinet - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2010 - int-res.com
Physical processes, such as mesoscale eddies, play an important role in ocean mixing and
concentrating biological productivity, which provides great feeding opportunities for many …

Ecological implications of eddy retention in the open ocean: a Lagrangian approach

F d'Ovidio, S De Monte, A Della Penna… - Journal of Physics A …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The repartition of tracers in the ocean's upper layer on the scale of a few tens of kilometres is
largely determined by the horizontal transport induced by surface currents. Here we …

Population-specific sex and size variation in long-term foraging ecology of belugas and narwhals

M Louis, M Skovrind, E Garde… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Intraspecific variation in resource use by individuals of different age, sex or size may reflect
differing energetic requirements and physiological constraints. Males and females often …

Identifying foraging events in deep diving southern elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, using acceleration data loggers

S Gallon, F Bailleul, JB Charrassin, C Guinet… - Deep Sea Research …, 2013 - Elsevier
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) range widely throughout the Southern Ocean
and are associated with important habitats (eg, ice edges, shelf) where they accumulate …

Coastal polynyas: Winter oases for subadult southern elephant seals in East Antarctica

S Labrousse, G Williams, T Tamura, S Bestley… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Antarctic coastal polynyas are regions of persistent open water and are thought to be key bio-
physical features within the sea-ice zone. However, their use by the upper trophic levels of …