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SUBMITTER: Biuw M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1959446 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biuw M M Boehme L L Guinet C C Hindell M M Costa D D Charrassin J-B JB Roquet F F Bailleul F F Meredith M M Thorpe S S Tremblay Y Y McDonald B B Park Y-H YH Rintoul S R SR Bindoff N N Goebel M M Crocker D D Lovell P P Nicholson J J Monks F F Fedak M A MA
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070810 34
Responses by marine top predators to environmental variability have previously been almost impossible to observe directly. By using animal-mounted instruments simultaneously recording movements, diving behavior, and in situ oceanographic properties, we studied the behavioral and physiological responses of southern elephant seals to spatial environmental variability throughout their circumpolar range. Improved body condition of seals in the Atlantic sector was associated with Circumpolar Deep Wat ...[more]