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Periodicity in foraging areas of leopard seals in the region south of...
---- Public Summary from Project ---- Leopard seals are usually seen in the pack-ice where they pup on the ice and where they must first face life at sea. However at Macquarie... -
Antarctic State of the Environment Bibliography
State of the Environment bibliography, compiled by Ewan McIvor. Contains 51 records. The fields in this dataset are: author year journal title volume pages publisher place of... -
Flora and fauna survey of the Stillwell Hills, 1996/97 - GIS data
The broadscale distribution of flora (lichens, mosses, non-marine algae)and fauna (penguins, flying birds, seals)in the Stillwell Hills was mapped using GPS technology. Samples... -
Wildlife observations made on the IDIOTS cruise of the Aurora Australis in...
This dataset is a subset of the Wildlife on Voyage dataset, and comprises the wildlife observations made onboard the Aurora Australis on the IDIOTS cruise of 1999-2000. There... -
Regional dialects and herd formation aspects of Weddell seal (Leptonychotes...
Database Description The files represent the 41 different Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) call types identified at either Mawson, Davis, and/or Casey. They were collected... -
Food consumption and energy expenditure of free ranging southern elephant seals
Elephant seals use a suite of physiological and behavioural mechanisms to maximise the time they can be submerged. Of these hypo-metabolism is one of the most important, so this... -
Bibliography of papers relevant to the ACE-CRC's Antarctic Marine Ecosystem programme
This bibliography is a selected list of scientific papers collected by scientists in the ACE-CRC's Antarctic Marine Ecosystem research programme. -
Marine mammal acoustic survey data from sonobuoy deployments on the BROKE-WEST Survey
Data Acquisition: DIFAR (DIrectional Fixing And Ranging) 53D sonobuoys were deployed every 30 minutes of longitude during each of the north-south sampling transects as part of... -
Origins and Biological Accumulation of Small Plastic Particles in Fur Seals...
From the abstract of the referenced paper: One hundred and sixty four plastic particles (mean length 4.1 mm) recovered from the scats of fur seals (Arctocephalus spp.) on... -
Foraging ecology of fur seals at Iles Kerguelen
Public summary for project 2128: The aim of this study is to relate the foraging behaviour of Antarctic fur seals breeding on the Kerguelen Plateau at Iles Kerguelen and Heard... -
Distribution of foraging effort of Antarctic fur seals in relation to...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 1251 See the link below for public details on this project. ---- Public Summary from Project ---- The aim of this study is to develop... -
Antarctic Fur Seal Populations on Heard Island Summer 1987-1988
Abstract from ANARE Research Notes 72 The Antarctic fur seal Arctocephalus gazella has increased in numbers at Heard Island since the Australian National Antarctic Research... -
Food Consumption and Foraging Success of Free-ranging Southern Elephant Seals
Elephant seals use a suite of physiological and behavioural mechanisms to maximise the time they can be submerged. Of these hypo-metabolism is one of the most important, so this... -
Winter foraging ranges of Weddell seals: a pilot study to assess their role...
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2695 See the link below for public details on this project. Variations in the winter extent of sea ice are thought to have profound... -
Marine Mammal Observations by Greenpeace
Dataset of marine mammal observations made in the Southern Ocean from late 1998 to early 2000. Further information about the data are included in a word document in the... -
Effect of spatial and temporal variation in marine productivity on energy...
The demographic performance of high level antarctic predators is ultimately determined by the oceanic processes that influence the spatial and temporal distribution of primary... -
Cetacean Sightings Survey and Southern Ocean Cetacean Program - data...
Observation on V3 commenced as the Aurora Australis departed Fremantle and concluded on the approach to Hobart. The SOCEP research objective is to detect and document cetacean... -
The mating system of the Weddell seal, Leptonychotes weddelli
Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 2184 See the link below for public details on this project. The objectives of this project were: To characterise the mating system of... -
Survey of Elephant Seals at Atlas Cove, Heard Island, December 2008
Stereoscopic images of elephant seals at Atlas Cove, taken at Heard Island on 16-17 December 2008. The Aurora Australis made a brief visit to Heard and McDonald Islands in mid-... -
Weddell seal call types made by males and females.
Recordings were made of adult male and female Weddell seals on the ice during the breeding seasons of 1990 and 1997. The recordings were made near Davis, Antarctica in the...