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Long term movements and activity patterns of an Antarctic marine apex predator: The leopard seal

Leopard seals are an important Antarctic apex predator that can affect marine ecosystems through local predation. Here we report on the successful use of micro geolocation logging sensor tags to track the movements, and activity, of four leopard seals for trips of between 142–446 days including one...

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Autores principales: Staniland, Iain J., Ratcliffe, Norman, Trathan, Philip N., Forcada, Jaume
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988266/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29870541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197767