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Open AccessBeyond boundaries: governance considerations for climate-driven habitat shifts of highly migratory marine species across jurisdictions
The mobile nature of migratory marine animals across jurisdictional boundaries can challenge the management of biodiversity, particularly under global environmental change. While projections of climate-driven ...
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Open AccessGenomics of post-bottleneck recovery in the northern elephant seal
Populations and species are threatened by human pressure, but their fate is variable. Some depleted populations, such as that of the northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris), recover rapidly even when the...
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Open AccessForaging behavior and age affect maternal transfer of mercury to northern elephant seal pups
Deep ocean foraging northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) consume fish and squid in remote depths of the North Pacific Ocean. Contaminants bioaccumulated from prey are subsequently transferred by adul...
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Open AccessImpacts of marine heatwaves on top predator distributions are variable but predictable
Marine heatwaves cause widespread environmental, biological, and socio-economic impacts, placing them at the forefront of 21st-century management challenges. However, heatwaves vary in intensity and evolution,...
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Open AccessFirst observations of Weddell seals foraging in sponges in Erebus Bay, Antarctica
Attaching cameras to marine mammals allows for first-hand observation of underwater behaviours that may otherwise go unseen. While studying the foraging behaviour of 26 lactating Weddell seals (Leptonychotes wedd...
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Open AccessIron mobilization during lactation reduces oxygen stores in a diving mammal
The profound impacts that maternal provisioning of finite energy resources has on offspring survival have been extensively studied across mammals. This study shows that in addition to calories, high hemoprotei...
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Open AccessEavesdrop** on the brain at sea: development of a surface-mounted system to detect weak electrophysiological signals from wild animals
Despite rapid advances in sensor development and technological miniaturization, it remains challenging to non-invasively record small-amplitude electrophysiological signals from an animal in its natural enviro...
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Open AccessThe Antarctic Weddell seal genome reveals evidence of selection on cardiovascular phenotype and lipid handling
The Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) thrives in its extreme Antarctic environment. We generated the Weddell seal genome assembly and a high-quality annotation to investigate genome-wide evolutionary pressur...
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Reproductive Energetics of Phocids
Phocid seals have a highly derived reproductive strategy characterized by the separation of feeding and reproduction, oftentimes across considerable spatial and temporal scales. Seals spend an extended period ...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Environmental influences on foraging effort, success and efficiency in female Australian fur seals
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Publisher Correction: Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01036-3.
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When Physiology and Ecology Meet: The Interdependency Between Foraging Ecology and Reproduction in Otariids
Otariids exhibit a semiaquatic lifestyle, feeding in the water and breeding and resting on land. Fur seals and sea lions, the two groups of otariids, exhibit an overall income breeding system where the females...
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Extreme diving of females at the largest colony of New Zealand sea lions, Phocarctos hookeri
The diving behaviours of marine predators are thought to be coupled with species demographics. Species that forage at or close to their physiological limits will be limited in their ability to respond to natur...
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Open AccessEnvironmental influences on foraging effort, success and efficiency in female Australian fur seals
Understanding the factors which influence foraging behaviour and success in marine mammals is crucial to predicting how their populations may respond to environmental change. The Australian fur seal (Arctocephalu...
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Publisher Correction: Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessA continuous-time state-space model for rapid quality control of argos locations from animal-borne tags
State-space models are important tools for quality control and analysis of error-prone animal movement data. The near real-time (within 24 h) capability of the Argos satellite system can aid dynamic ocean mana...
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Projected shifts in the foraging habitat of crabeater seals along the Antarctic Peninsula
Crabeater seals exhibit extreme dietary specialization, feeding almost exclusively on Antarctic krill. This specialization has inextricably linked habitat use, life history and evolution of this pinniped speci...
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Tracking of marine predators to protect Southern Ocean ecosystems
Southern Ocean ecosystems are under pressure from resource exploitation and climate change1,2. Mitigation requires the identification and protection of Areas of Ecological Significance (AESs), which have so far n...
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Open AccessThe retrospective analysis of Antarctic tracking data project
The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) is a Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research project led jointly by the Expert Groups on Birds and Marine Mammals and Antarctic Biodiversity In...
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Open AccessBest practice recommendations for the use of external telemetry devices on pinnipeds
Pinnipeds spend large portions of their lives at sea, submerged, or hauled-out on land, often on remote off-shore islands. This fundamentally limits access by researchers to critical parts of pinniped life his...
